North Carolina Newspapers

The Weekly Times. Srvson GSly, N. C. Austria hereafter will treat chronio drunkards as mentally inoapable. The Emperor of Russia haa little to eay about publio affairs. His mother and Mil ister Lobanoff rau the ma chine. I 1 The bicycle craze has started many new industries for instance, the mak ing of leggings.for which big factories now exist. Holland's navy ,has grown anti quated. It will take $20,000,000 to put it into i working order, bat the Ministry does not dare to ask for the money. An English traveler, Theodore Bent, has rediscovered the "land of frankin. centre and myrrh." It is a district called Dhofar, in the southeast oi Arabia, and is not much bigger than the Isle of Wight, It is marvellous how some places in Germany have grown since the war in 1870. Berlin has added 1,000,000 Uy the number of its inhabitants, but of all German towns hone n&s increased so much as Dresden. Iff twenty years its population has doubled. Sadden death has carried off two very prominent figures in American literature recently, Professor Boyesen -and Eugene Field. They had neither of them reached the age of fifty. Cut off in their prime, it seems sadly pos sible, to the New York World, tlmt they left their best work undone. Qnly thirty-six per cent, of the Parisians were born in the city, ao cording to the census. The foreigners are 184,000, but 8000 of them having independent incomes, the reBt being workpien or tradesmen. Nearly 25, 000 are German subjects, while iE Berlin there aro only 397 Frenchmen. The National Association of Imple ment Manufacturers, in session at at Chicago, has decided to begin a vig orous campaign against "midway" ex hibits at country fairs. 11 is declared tfiat exhibits of windmills, threshing machines and vehicles are neglected for the superior attractions of Turkish dancers and camel-back 'rides. Mrs. Charles Green, of Baltimore, is having built at Old Orchard, Me., a "Seaside Rest" for missionaries of all churcheB when recruiting from their labors. They will be expected to pay seventy-five cents a day fcr their lodg ings, with every comfort and luxury. Their meals will be free. The place is being beautifully fitted np, and will probably be dedicated early in Jane next year. The flual triumph of the bioycle is foreehadowed, if it has not actually been accomplished, on a big farm near Wellington, Kan. One of the young men is an expert bicycle rider, and he usually rides his machine when driving the cattle to pasture or to the barns. Ho is able to scorch around over the level prario and control the herd with great case. Maybe tho cowboy and his bronco are soon to be but a mem ory of a picturesque past. A curious law case is reported from Milan, Italy. A young lady sued a young man a perfect stranger for having kissed her, suddenly and with out warning, in the open street. When she entered the box to give evidence against him, the Judge was so struck with her beauty that he instantly ac quitted the accused, on the grounds "that 60 much loveliness . and churm had doubtless proved an irresistible temptation." Perhaps the most re markable feature of the trial was that, instead of being annoyed at losing her case, the plaintiff was delighted with tne verdict, and uttered a friendly farewell to the judge as 6he left the court beaming with smiles, whilst the accused was heartily applauded as he retired in triumph with his friends. iuue a number of odd emigration mutsuicuia iu iiie vresi are now un der way. A considerable party of peo pie who years ago settled in Nebraska are on the move to Georgia. Kansas people are moving to Nebraska ; Da kota folks are moving to Kansas, and a great many Norwegians are moving from Minnesota to the Canadian Northwest. Twenty-five Norwegian emigrants started from Crookston, Minn., for a settlement near Van cuuver, lounueu a year or so ago, cauea iMew .Norway. The migration ol farmers across the international boundary iaj pretty constant. Mani tobians come over into Minnesota and the Dakota, and discontented folks from these States move over into Man itoba. The moral of all this problem'is, the New York Sun philosophizes, that no place is everybody's El Dorado, no matter what land boomers and real state agents claim for their particu lar localities. A general strike ot PitUbunt plumbers was & inaugurated for th ruetoralion ot tho lea per cent. rJductlou two years ago. About w men went out, j The Japanese in. Sun Francisco hare driven the Chinese out of the curio trade, ana meir stores lor tne saie ot namDoo iur- uture arejoattered til over the city. , LATEST NEWS 1 IN BRIEF. GLEAJflN'GS FROM MAY POINTS. Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. . Newsy Southern Notes. The National Christian Conference met in the Moody tabernacle at Atlanta Wednesday " Twenty-four miners lost their lives Friday in the Nelson Mine, entry 10, near Dayton, Tenn., by an explosion of fire damp. At the Democratic convention at Shreveport, La., Thursday Governoj Mnrphy J. Foster was re-nominated for Governor without opposition There was a fatal explosion61 gas at the Cumnock Coal mines ia Chatham county, N. C, on Thursday, in which Abirty-eigbt persons were killed. At New OrleansWednesday, Judge Pardee, of the United States Circuit Court, decidedan favor of the constitu tionality ofthe, sugar bounty act, and against Comptroller Bowler. Fireat Bowling Green, Ky., early Wednesdav morning , destroyed the ristian and First Presbyterian Churches and the residence of Dr. V. N. McCormack, president of he State Board of Health. Lobs $30,000. C. J. White, telegraph operator at Hapeville, Ga., was shot Thursday by some unknown party. He was seaUd at the table and was sending a message to Maoon, when a ballet crashed through the window and blinds of his office and buried itself in his left arm. The Georgia State Populist conven tion met in Atlanta Wednesday to elect delegates to the national convention. The reason it met before the national convention was called was because of the cheap rates to Atlanta. The usual Populistic platform was adopted. Cox ey was not allowed to address the body. The convention favored up holding the Monroe doctrine. Northern News Notes. The press feeders are on a strike in Cleveland, O. The strike of the Philadelphia Un ion Traction Company employes has been declared off. The Sheriff at Rockport, Ind., fired on a mob who wanted a negro in the jail, and put it to fight. By the bursting of a steam valve on board the American line steamer St. Paul at New York Wednesday morn- inp, five men were scalded -to death and five others were badly scalded. The first and fourth assistant engineers and two machinists are dead- Four of the injured men on the St. aul at New York died at different times during the day, and night,. Wed nesday, and deaths now number 9. Washington. Capt. Isaac Bassett, the veteran assistant doorkeeper of the U. S. Sen ate, died at his home in Washington City on Wendesday evening. inere was an amusing colioquoy in he U. S. Senate on Friday between senators Unandler and iiilman in which the former "got the laugh" on the South Carolina Reformer, The Senate in executive session on Thursday confirmed the nominations of Willis L. Moore, to be chief of the Weather Bureau and Wheelerock G Veazy, to be an inter-State commerce commissioner. Foreign. French papers are jubilant over Eng land's dilemma. A portion of the Barracks, Buenos Ajres, collapsed Thursday with dis astrous results. Twelve soldiers who were in the building at the time were killed and sixty were injured. While the crew of the German ship Athena, with a cargo of naphtha, which took fire, was being transferred to the British ship Tafna, in the Atlantic, the oil exploded and the captain and 13 of the crew were killed. The German steamspip Spree, Cap tain Willigerode, from New York to Bremen, is standed on" Warden Ledge, Isle of Wight, but will proba ably float at the next flood time. All her passengers and mails have been landed. The Cuban insurgents have burned millions of dollars worth of sugar fields in the district of Las Cruce., Santo Domingo, Esperanza and Sngua La Grande, in the province of Santa Clara, on their way to the frontier of the province of Matanzas. A SPECIAL MESSAGE. Cleveland Slakes a Vigorous Tulk on the Venezuelan Question. rresident Cleveland on Tuesday sent a message to Congress relating to the Venezue lan queetion. and appending the answer of Great Britain, which eays the Monroe doc trine is inapplicable to the state of things in which we live at the present day and espe cially inapplicable to the controversy in volved in tho boundary line between Great Britain and Venesuela. Cleveland continues without attempting an extended argument in reply to these positions that the Doctrine upon which he stands is strong and sound Its enforcement is important to the peace and safety of the nation and is essential to the in tegrity of our free Institution and the tran quil maintenance of our distinctive form of government. The Monroe doctrine cannot become obsolete while our Republic endures; therefore we may properly insist upon this doctrine without regard to the state of things in wnicn we uve, or any mange ol condition here or elsewhere. If the European power takes possession of the territory of one of the neighbor republics ogniusv its win, m aeroKauon to lis ngnis. It is aimcuit to see wny me European power doesn't thereby attempt te extend its system of government to that portion of this conti nent thus taken. It also suggested the British reply that we should not 6eek to ar. ply the Monroe doctrine pending the dispute, because it does not embody any of the prin ciples of international law which was found ed by the general consent of nations, that no steps, nowever imminent, no naticn, how ever powerful or competent, insert into the Code of international law, a noval prin ciple never recognized before and not since been accepted by this government, or any otner country. jar. Cleveland says tnat nothing remains but to accept the situation and deal with it accordingly. The United States should care fully investigate the dispute and prosecute a thorough examination. He suggests that Congress make an adequate appropriation for the expenses of a commission to be ap pointed by him. The message was referred to the committee on foreign relations. Both sides ot the House warmly applauded the President PRESERVE OCR CREDIT. the President tTrfce Upott Congress the Necessity of Quickly Remedy ing the Curency System of This Government, in View of the National Crisis. The President has sent the following im portant message to Congress on the financial situation : To the Congreu: In my last annual message the evils of our present financial system were plainly pointed out and the causes and means of the deple tion of government gold were explained. It was therein stated that after all the efforts that had bee made by the executive branch ol the government to protect our gold re serve by the teenance of bonds amounting to more thanf 162,000,000, such reserve then amounted bat little more than $79,000,009; that about 116,000,000 had been withdrawn fronv such reserve during the month next previous to the date of that message and that 4nite laree Withdrawals for sniDtnent in the immediate future were predicted; The contingency tnen learea nas reacnea us and the withdrawals of gold since the communication referred to, and others that appear inevitable, threaten such a depletion in oar government gold reserve as brings us face to face with the necessity of further ac tion for its protection. This condition is in tensified by the prevalence in certain quar ters of sudden and unusual apprehension and timidity in business circles. We are in the midst of another season of perplexity caused by our dangerous and fa tuous' financial operations. These may be expected to recur with certainty as long as there is no amendment to onr financial sys tem. If in this particular instance our pre dicament is at all influenced by a recent in sistence upon the position we should occupy in our relation to certain questions concern ing cur foreign policy, this furnishes a sig nal and impressive warning that even the patriotic sentiment ol our people is not an adequate substitute for a sound financial policy. Ot course there can be no doubt in any thoughtrul mind as to the complete solvency of our nation nor can there be any just ap prehension that the American people will be satisfied with less than an honest payment of our public obligations in the recognized money of the world. We must not overlook the fact, however, that aroused fear is n. reasoning aud must be taken into account in all efforts to avert pub lic loss and the sacrifice of our people's In terests. The real and sensible cure for our recur ring troubles can only be effected by a com plete change in our financial scheme. Pend ing that, the executive branch of the govern ment will not relax its efforts or abandon its determination to use every means within its reach to maintain American credit, nor will there be any hesitation in exhibiting Its con fidence in the resources of our country and the constant patriotism of our people. In view, however, of the peculiar situation now confronting us, I have ventured to herein ex press the earnest hope that the Congress, in default of the inauguration of a better system .f finance, will not take recess from its labors before it has, by legislative enactment or declaration, done something, not only to re mind those apprehensive among our people that the resources f this government and a scrupulous regard for honest dealing nfford a sure guarantee of unquestioned safety and soundness, but to re-assure the world that with these factors and the patriotism of our citizens the ability and determination of our nation to meet in any circumstances every obligation it incurs do not admit of question. I ask at the bands of the Congress such prompt aid as it alone has the power to give to prevent in a time i-.l fear and apprehension any sacrifice of the people's interests and the public funds or the impairment of our public credit in an effort by executive action to re lieve the dangers of the present emergency . Signed. I Gboveb Cleveland." Executive Mansion, Dec. 20, 1895. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. Alabama will erect a large cottou factory on tho State's convict farm and operate it with convict labor. Charles F. jMayer .has been removed as President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Utah will bb admitted to the Union January 10 th The preside nt has rejected the coast defense ram Katahdin, built by the Bath, Me., Iron Works. A bill has been introduced in Congress to com pensate the builders for their loss. Speaker Reed announced his com mittees on Saturday. Nine indictments have been returned against ex-City Attorney Moreland and Assistant W. H. House, the defaulting Pittsburg officials. A Key West dispatch says that Cam pos has been informed from Spain that if he does not break the rebellion quickly, Spain will be unable to bor row money to continue the war. Harry Haywood, in his ante-mortem statement the night before his execu tion, confessed to three other murders prior to the killing of Miss Ging, and ttated that he never got into tremble until he began gambling and associat ing with counterfeiters. The Washington correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier wires bis paper that the Senate will insist that the commissioners to investigate the Venezuelan boundary line shall be nominated to and confirmed by the Senate, instead of having them named by the President without any check whatever upon his selection. There was a great improvement in the financial situation in New York on Tuesday. In his committee appointments Speaker Reed is said to have given general satisfaction in both sides of the House. The Philadelphia street car strike ended Monday in a victory for the company. The new men are to keep their places and the striking men to be taken back after an impartial examina tion of their records. The town of Brookstown. nine miles west of Paris, Tex. , was swept away by a disastrous tire Sunday. Every busi ness house in the place was burned. Loss, $50,000; insurance partial. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a fifth dividend of 20 per cent, to the creditors of the National Bank of Knoxville, Tenn. The Visible Supply of Cotton. The total visible supply of cotton lor the world is 3,961,379 bales, of which 3,610,179 bales are American, against 4.594.566 bales and 4,210,366 bales respectively last year. 'Receipts of cotton this week at all interior towns 168J81 bales. Receipts from the plan tar ions 251,743 bales. Crop insight 4.501,31J bales. , A NAPHTHA SHIP BLOWS U. Captain and Thirteen Men of the Atbe.ia lost. I During a heavy gale 319 miles off Cape May, N. J., the German ship Athena, Cap tain Haak', which left New York Desember 10, for London, with a cargo of napht'ua took fire, and, while the crew were being transferred to the British steamship Tafna, from MarbeUa. forPhilade:phia, the oil ex ploded, blowing the- Athena out of the water. The captain and thirteen of tbs crew wsra either killed by ths explosion or drowasd. The first and second mates anl four cf the erew had been transferred to the Tafna before the explotiou took nlaie, anJ were saved. When the Tafna le."t the place the wreck from the ship was drifting southe-ist. The Tafna took the survivor? to Phi'alelphia where they were well cared for. BIRTH OF JESUS. DR. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY THEME. Out of the Bethlehem Crib Came "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men." Text: "Sow when 'Jesus was bom In Bethlehem." Matthew 1L. 1. At midnight from one of the galleries of the sky a chant broke. To an ordinary ob server there was no reason for snoh a celes tial demonstration. A poor man and wife travelers, Joseph and Mary by name had lodged in an out-house ot an unimportant village. The supreme hour of solemnity had passed, and uon the pallid forehead and cheek of Mary." God had set the dignity, the grandeur, the tenderness, the everlasting and divine significance Of motherhood. But such scenes had often occurred in Beth' leLem, yet never before had a star been un fixed or had a baton ot light marshaled oyer the hills winged orchestra. If there had been such brilliant and mighty recognition at an advent in the house of Pharaoh! or at an ad vent la the house of Casar, or the house ot Hapsburg, or the house of Stuart, we would not so much have wondered; but a barn seems too poor a center forBueh delicate and arohangelic circumference. .The stage seems too small for so great an act," the musio too grand foruch unappreciativa auditors, the window of the stable too rude to be serenaded by other worlds. It is my joy to tell you what was born that night in the village barn, and as I want to make my discourse cumulative and climac teric I begin in the first place by telling you that that night in the Bethlehem manger was born encouragement for all the poorly start ed. He Nad only two friends-they His par ents. No satin lined cradle, no delicate at tentions, but straw and the cattle and the coarse joke and banter of the camel drivers. No wonder the mediaeval painters represent the oxen as kneeling before the infant Jesus, for there were no men there at that time to worship. From the depths of that poverty be rose nntil to-day He Is honored In all Christendom anl sits on the imperial throne in heaven. What name is mtghtiest to-day in Chris tendom? Jesus. Who has more friends oa earth than any othsr b8inj;V Jesus. Before whom do the most thousands kneel in chapel anl church and cathedral at this hour? Jesus. From what depths of poverty to wr.p.t height of renown! And so let all those who are poorly started remember that they cannot be more poorly born or more disad vantageous than this Christ. Let them lookup to His example while they have time and eternity to imitate it. Do you know that the vast majority of the World's deliverers had barnlike birthplaces? Luther the emancipator of religion, born anone the mines, bbasespearei the era an cipator of literature, born in a humble home at Stratford-on-Avon. ColUmbus, the dis coverer of a world, borfl in poverty at Genoa. Hostartb, the discoverer of how to make art accumulative and administrative- of virtu5, born in a 'humbli home in Westmoreland. Kitto and Prideaux, syhose keys unlocked new apartments in the holy Scriptures which had never been entered, born in want. Yes. I have to tell you that nine out of ten of the world s deliverers were born in want. I stir your holy ambitions to-day, and I want to tell you, although the whole world may be opposed to you. and inside and out side of your occupations or professions mere may oe those who would hinder your ascent, on your side and enlisted in your be half are the sympathetic heart and the almighty arm of one who one Christmas nicht about 1895 years ago was wrapped in swanaung ciotnes ana taia in a manger. Oh, what magnificent encouragement for the poorly started! Again, I have to tell you that in that vil lage barn that night was born good will to men, whether you call it kindness or fore- bearance or forgiveness or genialty or affec tion er love. It was no sport of high heaven to send its favorite to that humiliation. It was sacrifice for a rebellious world. After the calamity in Paradise not only did the ox begin to gore, and the adder to sting, and the elephant to smite with his tusk, and the lion to put to bad use tooth and paw, but under the very tree from which the forbid den fruit was pluoked were hatched out war and revenge and malice and envy and jeal ousy and the whole brood of cockatrices. But against that scene I set the Bethlehem manger, which says. "Bless rather than curse, endure rather than assault," and that Christmas night puts out vindictiveness. It says. "Sheathe your sword, dismount your guns, dismantle your batteries, turn the warship Constellation that carries shot and shell into a gramship to take food to fam jsninz ireiana. nooK your cavalry horse to the plow, use your deadly gun-powder in masting rocks ana in patriotic celebration, Htop your lawsuits, quit writing anonymous letters, extract the sting from your sarcasm, let your wit coruscate but never burn, drop all the harsh words out of your vooabulary 'Good will to men.' " "Oh. ' you say. "I can't exercise it; I won't pxercise it until they apologize; I won't for give them until they ask me to forgive mem. iou are no unristian tnen I say you are no unnsuan, or you are a very in consistent unmtian. it you forgive not men their trespasses, how can you expect your heavenly Father to forgive you? For give them if they ask your forgiveness and forgive them any how. Shake hands all around. "Good will to men. O my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into all our hearts this Christmas time. I tell vou what the world wants more than anything else more helpine hands, more sympathetic hearts, more kind words that never die, more disposition to give other people a ride, and to carry the heavy end of the load and itive other people the light end. and to ascribe good motives instead of bad, and to And our nappiness in making others hapov. Out of that Bethlehem crib let the bear and the lion eat straw like the ox. "Good will to men." That principle will yet settle al controversies, and under it the world will keep on improving until there will be only two antagonists in all the earth, and they win iue oy siae iase tne juonant sleign ride inumateu oy tne prophet , when he said "Holiness shall be on the bells of the horses. Again, l remark that born that Christmas night in the village barn was sympathetic union with other worlds. From that super natural grouping of the cloud banks over Beihlehem, and from the special trains that ran down to the scene I find that our world is beautifully and gloriously and magnifl cently surrounded. Toe meteors are with us, for one of them ran to point down to toe birthplace. The heavens are with us because at the thought of our redemption they roll hosannas out of the midnight sky. Oh, yes, I do not know but our world may do oetter surrounaed than we have some' times imagined, and when a child is born. angels bring it, and when it dies, ansrels take it, and when an old man bends under the we-.gbt of years, angels uphold him. and wnen a heart breaKs, angels soothe it. Angels in tne hospital to take care of h ick, Angels in the cemetery to watch our dead, Angels in the church ready to fly heaven- wara witn tne news of repentant souls. Aneels above the world. Angels under the world. Anirels all around the world. Rub the dust of human imperfections out of your eyes, and look into the heavens and see angels' of pity, angels of merey, angels of pardon, angets ot l.elp. angels crowned, angels charioted. The world defended by angels, girdled by angels, cohorted by angels clouds of anirels. Hear David cry out: "The chariots of God are 20,000. Even thousands of angels." But the mightiest angel stood not that night in the clouds over Beihlehem; the mightiest angel that night lay amongthe cattle the angel of the new covenant. As tne clean while linen was being wrapped around the little form of that child emperor, not a cherub, not a seraph, not an angel, not a world but wept and thrilled and shouted. Ob. ves. our world has plenty of sympathizers! Our world is only a silver rung cf a great ladder at the lop of which is our Father s bouw. No more stellar eolitari ne tor our wor!3. no ciher friendless p!an ets spun out into space to freeze, but a world in the bosom of divine maternity. A star harnessed to a manger. Again, I remark that that night born in that Tillage barn was the offender's hope. Some aermonizers may say I ought to have projected this thought at the beginning of the sermon. Oh, no! I wanted yon to rise toward- it I wanted yon to examine the ear nelians and the ; as pen" and the crystals be--fore I show you the Kohlnoor the crown jewel of the ages. Oh. that jewel had a Terr poor setting! The cub of bear is born amid the grand old pillars of the forest, the whelp of lion takes its first step from the jungle of luxuriant leaf and wild flower, the kid of goat is born in cavera chandeliered with sta lactite and pillared with stalagmite, Christ was born in a bare barn. Yet that nativity was the offender's hops. Ger the door of heaven are written mw Words: '-None but the sinless may rater here.- "Cdi, horror." yon sayj "that shuts as ail out!" No. Christ came to the world in one door, anl Ha departed through an other door. He ovne through the door or the manger, and He departed through the ' . a -m . kn!nace " ".. . door ot the sepnioaer, ana nis om was so to wash away our sin that after we are dead there will be no more sin about us than about the eternal God. I know that is patting it strongly, but that is wnai un derstand by full remission. All enwed. all washed awsv. all scoured out. all gone. That ondergirdiing and overarching and ir radiating and imparadising possibility for vou, and for me, ana ior rn wnaw that was given that Christmas night. Do you wonder we onng nowera iimv, i celebrate such an event? Do yon wenaer that we take organ and youth'ui voice and queenly soloist to celebmte it? Do yu wonder that Baphael and Rubens and Titian and Giotto and Ohirlandajo and all the old Italian and German painters gave the mightiest stroke Ol their genius to sketch the Stadonna Mary, and her boy? Oh! now I see what the manger was. Not So high the glided and jeweled end embroid ered cradle of the Henrys of England, or the Louis-of France, or tne ireaeneits ot i-w sia. Now I find out that that Bethienem crib fed not so much the oxen ot the stall as the white horses of Apocalyptio vision. Now I find the swaddling clothes enlarging an l emblazoning into an imperial robe for A conqueror. Now 1 una mat tne star oi inai Christmas night was only the diamonded sandal ot Him who hath the moon under His feet Now I come to understand that the musio ot tnat nignt was not a compietea song, but only the stringing of the instru ments lor a great cnorus oi two wonas, m bass to be carried by earthly Nations saved, and the soprano by kingdoms of glory won. Ob, heaven, heaven, heaven! I shall meet )rou there. After all oar imperfections are gone I shall meet vod there, I look out to day, through the mists of years, through th fog that rises from the cold Jordan, thiough the wide open door of solid pearl to that re union. I expect to see you mere as certain ly as I sea you here. What a time we shall have in high converse, talking over sins pardoned and sorrows comforted and battles triumphant! ' Some of your children have already gone, and though people passing along the street and seeing white crape on the doorbell may have said. "It is only a child," yet when the broken hearted father came to solicit my service, he said, "Come around and comfort us. for we loved her so much." AYhat a Christmas morning it will make when those with whom yon used to keep ihe holidays are all around you in neaveu: Silver haired old father young agaiu. and mother who had so many aches and pains and decrepitudes well again, and all your brothers and sisters and the little ones. How glad they will be to sea you! They have been waiting. The last time they saw your faoe it was covered with tears and dis tress, and pallid from long watching, and one of them I can imagine to-day, witn one hand holding fast the shining gate, and the other hand swung out towarl you, say ing: "Steer this way, father, steer straight for me: Here safe in heaven I am waiting for thee, Oh. those Bethlehem ange's, when they went back after the concert that night over the hills, forgot to shut the itoor! All the secret is out. No more use of trying to hide from us the glories to come. It is too late to shut the gate. It is blocked wide open with hosannas marching this way. ana naue- luiabs marching that way. In the splendor of the anticipation 1 feel as if 1 was dying not physically, for 1 never was more wen but in the transport of the Christmas trans figuration. hat almost unmans me is the thought that it is provided for such sinners as you and I have been. If it had been provided only for those who had always thought right and Spoken right and acted right, you und I would have had no interest in it, had no share in it ; you and I would have stuck to the raft midocean, and let the ship sail by carrvm2 perfect passengers from a perfect life on earth to a perfect life in heaveD. But I have heard the commander of that ship is the same great and glorious and sympathetic one who hushed the tempest around the boat on Galilee, and 1 have heard that all the pass engers on tne snip are sinners savea by grace. And so we hail the ship, and it bears down this way, and we come by the side of it and ask the Captain two questions, "Who are lhoui1 and "whence.'' And He says, "I am Captain of Salvation, and I am from the manger. Ob, bright Christmas morn ing of my soul's delight! Chime 11 the bells. Merry Christmas! Merry with tie thought of sins forgiven. merry with the; idea of sorrows comforted, merry with therapturesto come. Oh, liftthat Christ from the! manger and lay Him down in all our hearts' We may not bring to him as costly a present as the magi brought, but we bring to rr.s feet ana to the manger to day the frankincense of our joy, the prostra tion of our worship. Down at His feet all churches, all ages, all earth, all heaveD. Down at His feet the fotur and twenty elders on their faces. Down tbe 'great multitude tDat no man can number. Down Michael, the archangel! Down all worlds at His feet and worship. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men!" FOUND HIS MOTHER. She Was Clad in Beggar's Ka?, but He Acknowledged Her. Morris H. Spillard, one of Cincinnati's best known citizens, has a sod, L. H. in Sao Marta, department of Magdalena, Colombia, South America. The young man has been in business there for several years, and is doing well. In a resent letter to his father young Spillard, in a postscript, remarks: '! shall now recount to you a fact that is stranger than fiction." He then goes on to stte that he was in the sitting room of a hotel in San Marta recently and witnessed the occurrence he details. Three general officers of the Colombian army, then on a tour of inspection, were also in the hotel sit ting room. Boon a poor woman came into the apartment asking for alms. Her ondi- tlon was most pitiful, and, to add to her sad condition, her head was bound up, hiding a cancer on the forehead. She approacned the three officers and begged aid. Two of the officers gave her twenty cents eac. The third one handed her 91. En couraged by tne muniflcenee of the bequest, she respectfully requested the names ot her benefactors. Ihe one who gave her fl said his hame was General Elias Rodriguez. Said the poor old mendicant: "I had a son of that name, and if he is alive he is about your age." This statement interested the officer, and after a lengthy conversation in which the beggar woman recounted her history, it was ascertained that General Boanguez bad given alms to his own mother. In brief, the general at once took her in charge, provided liberally for ber, and she is now the happy and respected guest of honor in his own house. This story Is literally true, and young Mr. Spillard by chance was a witness to this strange and romantic meeting of mother and son. Hone. Three Dollar a Piece. Horses sold at auction in Chiilieotha. Mo.. a few days ago at 3 a piece. . A Question of Pronunciation. Americans who affect the so-called English pronunciation of the letter "a' In words like "ask," "pans' and "last" are so much inclined, especially in Bos ton, to overdo the matter that it i well to reprint the testimony of a Baltimore traveler who took pains while in Eng land this summer to observe critically the usage of cultivate speaker's there on this point He found In effect that their "a" was a crow betwn the "a of "ah" and the "a" of "at." He list ened carefully to tb orthoepy of Lord Chief Justice Russell, Lord Rosebery, and Lord Salisbury and to that of the eminent churchmen, and found that no where "was tbore any such broad and deep pronunciation of words, and espe daily the tetter 'a, as we generally con sider to be the English method." Their pronunciation was almost identical with that of good speakers in Baltimore and New York. Old Womaa Charge With Harder. Mrs. Jordon Phastain, aged sixty-five, liv ing near Kara Avis, Ala., is in Jail on the charge of murdering ber hosband, aged NORTH STATE CDLLINGS. OCCtRBEXCES WORTH OTINO FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. North Carolina's Finances. The committee of the Legislature who have just finished an examination of the books, etc., ia the State Treis xxrr ftive tis the following interesting fieuree: There waa in the Treasury November 30, 1895, a balance of $123,561,96, and and the shenSs have paid in S18.046.56 of theyear 189o tax es, -making the total $143,602.52. No vember 30. 1894, the balance was $317,315.66, and during the fiscal rear 31.183,836.12 was received, mak ing a total of $1,501,211.78. The dis bursements were daring the year $1, 857,809.28. Of the educational fund thebalancetsSSS.lSMl. Thereceipte were $19,147.37, including $27,000 of the direct tax fund which by spec ial aot the last Legislature covered in to the Treasury. The disbursements of the educational fund during the year were $14,595.71. THE SENTENCES The Beaufort Insurance Cases Ended. The Beaufort fraud trials have all ended. The last one resulted in an other conviction, that of Haseell and Dr. Delmar, of conspiracy; also of Noe. A verdict of not guilty was found as to S. D. bdiI J. C. Delmar, on the charge of forgery. Of those indicted all the white ones, except Dr. L. W. .Perkins, were convicted on one or more charges. He and all the negroes with one exception turned State's evi dence. Judge Graham pronounced sentence about noon. C. R. Hassell gets seven years in the penitentiary; Win. Fisher, colored, five years in the penitentiary; Dr. T. D. Delmar, Sel don Delmar, JVC. Delmar and Levi T. Noe, two years each in Craven county ja.il. Every one appealed, gave bond and went home, having been allowed until January 21st, to make up a case on appeal to the Supreme Court of tbe the State. Hassell's bond is $1,500; all the others $1, 000 each. The bonds men are citizens of Beaufort. , The defsndants say they will fight to the last and will appeal to the United States Supreme Court if necessary. Saved From Bankruptcy. It has been given out that all of the cases against a number of North Carolina prominent business men who endorsed for the North Stale Improve ment Company, in the Cape Fear and Yafikin Valley Eailroad, were amicably adjusted at a meeting of the defen dants and plaintiffs, held in Greens boro. The cases will now be taken out of the Courts. The details of the compromises are not revealed. Had the plaintiffs continued the prosecution it would have bankrupted all the men who endorsed for the Improvement Company, among the number being Dr. W. A. Lash, late president of the Cape Fear and Yadkin valley Kail road. Special Term of Buncombe Court. Goyernor Car has called a special term of Buncombe County Superior Court, for tho trial of civil cases only. At the special requeot of the bar of Asheville, Judge W. A. Hoke has been commissioned to preside over this term of the court. In the application for the call of the special term it is shown that a vast pile of civil cases has accumulated. There are no less than 437 cases on the civil docket and 83 cases on the summons docket, returnable at this term of the caurt. The Trolley in Winston. Mr. T. F. Wilson, Jr., one of Win ston's tobacco manufacturers, has brought suit for $10,000 against the Winston-Salem Street Railway Com pany for killing his little son on Sept. 11. John B. Wise, formerly of v ir- ginia, now of .New York, is managing the case for the defendants. He will ask Judge Brown for a removal of tbe trial to the Circuit Court at Greens boro, j STATE NEWS DOTS. The Senate has confirmed the nomi nation of Thomas C. Fuller, of North Carolina, to be a Justice of the Court of Private Land Claims. Figures submitted to the board aldermen of Winston show the cost tbe water works system to have been 8102,408,51 and the mayor savs it is worth $200,000. Mr. John Hessinger, an engineer. was found dead at a boarding house in Wilmington Tuesday. The Beview says he had been employed on the Wlmington & Weldon Railroad and was an excellent engineer but his eye sight had tailed and he was ont of em ployment. It is reported that Mr. Palmer, rich member of tho Christian phnrch in New York, has given $100,000 to Elon College. It is to be hoped that it is true. The trustees of the college have for some time expected that Mr. Calmer would endow the college either soon or at his death. Fire Mormon missionaries left Salt Lite City, Utah, a few days aso. bound for Sew Zealand, to establish a mission amoV; the Maoris. FAMOUS SHORT TURN WAGON ' WE MANUFACTURE MANY STYLES OF HIGH GRADE PLEASURE VEHICLES Short turn and end spring Vehicle a specialty. vatm roa catalooc am rautaa. THE CREAMER & SCOTT WhUmU ManufmetMrtr, MAJ. GRAHAM Wix8 Court Allows Him $3,600 r : An Appeal. The case of W. A. Grahatn Wrought Iron KanKe CofflCanV1, ended Saturday in the Tuited L1 Court at Charlotte, and result H verdict and judgment in fuvor ,'n plaintiff for $3,600 damages. 01 This was an action brought t Graham to recover damage burning ol his dwelling house an?" tents in June, 1894, caused, as leged, by fire resultin-j a pipe of a range which he had boa!u few days before from theraaeon OJ, aud which the agents cf tbe pany had represented wa eon. MJ Pr.n.4- ted and was of such material that u heat would be confined to the r and " the pipe would not i",5 The company's agent placed the ran and piping in position in ujs i 8 and placed the pipe in immediate - f iha muni tvifl,. ' C- lilV ' IIWV "AUWIl RD.V ten. cotta or other non-cumin r of 1,... and represented that this was safe fire resulted therefrom as above t ted. su- The defendant will take an the Circuit Court of Appcnls mond, Va. aPl'l Jo Rich- North Carolina Mill. The interesting fact is noted by th Asheville Citizen that "of the money invested in North Carolina mills 93, cent is North Carolina money, and 0f the managers of the mills SI per cent are North Carolinians." Thi sho saye the Citizen, "that North Carohn. ians have faith as well as works." b, is because they have so much faith, 0f course, that they have m mftB. "works." The State leads the South with ISO cotton mills. The facts as to the ownership and control of the mills should be instructive to th geutlemta in New York who are tinder the im. pressioU that the South owes all itj cotton factories to "Eastern capital aud, manufacturers. Court House at Murphy liurnrd. 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