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(? and the ATLAKTA CONSTITUTION BOTH S .tea IBmid'h Jjp and t 8 : : 1 r- -j- r. c - - - - " " V . OUR HOME AND HOME FOLKS AGAINST THE WORLD. . " ' : h , : - l T-. , I iO pftR ONLY 3 ; nollur an J a Hall. bs-Vow is the time tosub-3 and get your loal pa-3$ r and the great Southem3g? t.i., tnr loasi than nnat. sS vreefcv v- TART, TEfiSE AHi TIMELY. Ward McAllister was born in Georgia. Georgia is probably rrlad that he left her so early in Fife. ijr. Blaine is hardly sitting up ants to worry because more delegates have not been instruct ed for Mr. Harrison. Many democratic members of the House will be wishing be fore long that they had spent jnore time in their seats. . The largest cattle ranch own ed by a single person is in Texas, and its owner is a woman; but she does not wish to vote. Red hose are fashionable in Paris. The Hosiery had to be in keeping with the prevailing; tint of the town. . . Tammany Hall, the much abused New York organization VOL. YI. NO. 40- STATE HEWS Butler's Star Chamber Con ference will be held in Raleigh next Tuesday, the 17thi, The Democratic State Con vention will meet in Raleigh to morrow (Wednesday) week, the 18th. All the signs point to Gover nor Holt as our nominee for Governor. He richly deserves that honor. Raleigh Advocate: The Meth dists.of Hickory, haye decided to build anew $5,000; churchT The Methodists of Edenton, N i C, are going to build a hand some new church. States ville Landmark: Green goods letters continue to flood the mails and have become a chestnut. Hardly a day passes but some of our citizens receive these humbugging propositions. Near Yeldon, last week, the cabin of Sam Johnson was burn- ! ed nnr his wr smnll ehihlreri has contributed $5,000 towards were burned to death. Thecab buildingthe Grant monument, in took fire while the children Kow let some of its abusers and their mother were asleep. friHn natriotism. The woman aroused by the ex- VULUV w CAETIIAGE, MOOBE CO., N. C, TUESDAY; MAY 10, 1892. Price 5 Cents. "Let Us Be Sweethearts." olosion of a eun caused bv the The republican editor who at- heat of the fire. She immedi tcrapts to reconcile the platforms ately ran out of the house, for af the Sew York and Colorado getting her children. State republican conventions is ' Salisbury Herald: Davidson ,ither.a very colons mlc, he asked the insane WA y, ""i"1 i , Carolina vioncer. len mues a Anson County's Breach of Promise Case. Wadesboro, N. C, May 9. Long before the hour for court to open this mornig people be gan to come into town from all sections f the country, eager to hear the greatest sensational trial ever before the court ot An son county that of Miss Annie Knotts, who sues Mr. T. J. In gram for $5,000 for breach of promise. By the hour for tne opening of court the court house was crowded, even all available 1 standing-room being taken. The case was opened at 9 o clock sharp, by Tohn H. Ben nett, consul for the defendant. Miss Annie Knotts was the first to go on the stand. She is 26 years of age, rather tall, sty lish, with light hair and blue eyes upon the wholej what might be termed a handsome woman. She testified that Mr. Ingram had gone to her home, near Lilesville, July 13tn, 1889, stayed all night, and on Sunday following (July 14th) he carried her to Gum Springs, about 6 miles distant, and between her The argument closet at 11 o'clock, the jury was . charged and took the . case about mid night. I JUDGE LYKCH II BL&DEH CODITY. I TRAGEDY II AKS0I COUITY. Bob Jot ers Shot" annulled tj Daris Tatton While Stealing the Latter's CUciens..: The Elementsin Turmoil Widespread Damage Done by LlShinlBff, iua and Xtaln. LIKE AID U1UKE HISS HITCEELU -i i r r a candidate lor asvlum. Tpon Pire Hung b j a HoS-Tlie Eii- dence of His Guilt ConcInsiYe, Elizabethtown, N. CTMay 2. -Tymon Purdie4 who murdered Edward Cain at .W C. Dan- ham's barn last Thursday night, was lynched herejastijiight by lOOmasked men. The evidence against him -ras pomplete. Gain's neck was near ly severed from-his body by the murderer, and the blood spurted all over his , assailant. Purdie's i coat was found in his house with the sleeve7 bloody. His shoes, worn the day before, -were also found in his house, the left shoe Worn on" one side and bloody around the hole. When found this morning the body was hung to a pine limb, near a public fer ry. That part of his loot un covered on the account of the worn place in the shoe was still covered with the blood of his victim. His bloody trousers, drawers and axe were found about, sixty yards frohrhis house and indentihed bv witnesses. from Lexinjrton is Ten miles i uer who was her sweetheart, to ;tvw r- wgMrt . , harrt I A4tbU! tAAU WV.- blV cave once which she replied she had no iijiam xne story is staucu uu Wvuav.uuui . swcetueaix. xxe tncu ujskcu; Senator primitive cabinstood, though r tne latter is now almost cnxireiy updn its round that 'i: ' -j -1 - onerman intenus tirmS ui Htated. But the hearthstone public life. The Sherman family is yet preserved. An efiFort will isnotofia retirins: dispositioa, be made to have this exhibited and the Senator will hardly be at the World's Fair. an exception. Greensboro Record: F. F. According to Budhist author!- ?mith' fthis acres ty the world will last 427,000 part of Guilford county, years longer, n inai uc true ana a visit to the OTcftard. yes- what is the good of fretting terday discovered that his trees hrtf hincr fToin slow. Rath- were loaded with truit. Me has W.lvtn a sudoIv of ice Uiven us a twi-three prongs-- . - r r j j. i 1 about ten inches long,, which liyx i contains 34-well tormedpeacnes, theirs coolly. all larger than a buckshot. We Although there are several I hope there : are many such or t T 1 V. I lit I US 1L1 UU111U1U. royal personages in Europe who might easily be spared without Golds boro tieadingnt: Anum- detriment to the world, most ", , . ? r T7 " T r . hon stfltins people.are glad that they werejsome wnrhave of cotton, and to plant over. not sent away by the dynamite They planted much earlier than , route, as the anarcmsts naa usual, and toe cotton eitner am i,rMf,n o r nti Mav Dav. J not come up or has died from the effects of the cold weather. If the mama for uninstructcd prominent farmer of this delegates continues it will be county was in our office yester- anvbody's fight up to the very I day, informed us that there is finili. One advantage in send "Where is the Baptist preacher, Pruit, and Dobbs" She replied that they were not her sweet hearts, and he then prposed to her that they be sweethearts; she thought he was joking and told him bo. He told her he was not joking, and convinced her that he was not. He then asked her if she would mntTT him in the tall, and insis ted upon an answer before reach ing the church. Then, after be ing convinced that he was in earnest about the matter, she engaged herself to him and they were to marry in the fall. He told her that day that he would go to see her again in August. He alsoiold her thathe had been Purdie was evidently robbing it and killed him to avoid prose cution. A piece of wood over a door h:rige had been prized off and nailed back- after the mur der. The axe handley- which 1 -m m . Caught m driving the nan, was ing uninstructed delegates is, it leaves the convention tree to se Wf ihe candidate who in its more corn planted in this section this year than any heretofore. Oxford Day: A terrible accident happened to a Horner School ca rlet at 1 .30 to-dav. durinsr the . . . , t!rrj ' , -. ludment is oest quaimeu to win. noon reCess. K. M. bhaw, a In the kingdom of Poland strong and well grown i toy of there was, once a law according "y Z 7- a to which any person tound guil- "to"w, L TZZ h town where he lived, accompanied by the bea dle, as a sign that he was un worthy of the name of man. ' "Republicans pretend to have expected that Governor Flower would veto measures intended to take away the political pow er so long monopolized by New York republicans just to show that he was not controlled by Senator Hill. Bosh: They never expected' anything of the kind. On our second page wilt be found a letter from Rev. Thos. Dixon, denouncing as false,- the reportes of an interview held by him with Mr. D. F. St. Clair, How a report on the New York Press (Rep.). Since patting this letter in type we have seen a card from Mr. St. Clair reiterating the charge that Rev. Mr. Dixon was guilty of using thelanguage attributed to him. The Ways and Means Com mittee of the House of Represen tatives, it is said, have listened to the pleadings of the merch ant tailors of this country, and will recomend a $100 limit on the amount of clothing which the American tourist may buy rl brinsr home free of duty. The high tariff Republi cans who buy tneir ciomes in I Europe will not like this.Wil. Star. 1 Wadesboro, N. C, May 4. Robert, or Bob Jowers, as he was always called, a young white man about 25 or 30 years of age, son of Atlas Jowcrs, was shot through the head by Davis Talton last night and instantly killed.-The circumstance.- are about as follows: Mr. Talton and Mr. Jowers were neighbors, living about' 2Y2 miles from Wadesboro. About 10 o'clock in the night Mr. Talton heard a noise about his fowl house. which was only a short distance from his dwelling. He grabbed his pistol and ran out of the house and upon reaching the yard discovered something com ing out of the fowl 'house and ovmg around it, which he thought prehaps was a dog, on account of its appearing so close to the ground; but to be sure, he hailed and no one an swered. He then fired. Seeing the object move around the fowl house and stop, he took the precaution to hail again, and receiving no response he fired agaim About this time Buck Bir- CONSTITUTION! 'Only 81.50 a Year "Job Printing: of all1 ikmds Neatly and Prompt fly done at The Blade Office. Send vour orders. mingham, a young man who as sociated with Towers a great in TT - i . j . v L Dunning, near Hooper, ucu.1, ran up ana cnea to ivir. Talton, "For God's sake not to t l r . snoot any more ior tnat was Qob Jowers around there, and bloody and blood was spattered I he expected Bob was killed." on the wood bv the eve of the j iny got a ngnt and went to axe showed that the axe has raised places on the eye. The raised places on. Pjurdie'a axe-ex actly filled the places marked in the wood. The murderer was a negro, and although all of his race believe him guilty they are very indig nant about the lynching and trouble may result. Another Bridge Disaster. the fowl house and found Jow ers dead with a bullet through nj neaa. - a sacK was tound in the fpw.-house; with one dead chicken m it and another with dolumbus, Ind., May 7A fcoghtful storm swept over this part ot tne Mate to-day. The section which suffered the most south of this city is about five miles wide, and near Washington to the line on the east. r . ine cavei5 seemedr asblid mass of fire from electric bolts for an hour or so, and rain fell in torrents. mere was a washout on the Madison Branch of the Pennsvl- I vania lines near Scottsburg. A large flouring mill at North Vernon was struck by lightning and burned, and the large Uni versalist Church was wrecked. At Batesville two brewries were unroofed and much other damage was done. Fort Wayne, Ind., May 7. The house of John Mercer, a far mer living six miles from Deca tur, was capsized by a wind storm last night. . Mercer and his wife were seriously wounded and their five-year-old son was fatally injured. Several head of cattle on the farm were killed. Binghampton, N. Y., May 7. j During a heavy thunder storm last evening the barn of Frank was struck by lightning and burned. Three cows and ahorse perished. Syracuse, N. Y., May 7.The large barns of Joseph Phil lips, on the Bridgeport road, north of here, were fired by light ning last evening, and ten cows, eight yearlings, fifty tons of hay and a quantity of farming im piemen ts were burned. HIis TIptca Loied t cnan bntSbot Herselt Instead of Her Sieetlieart "Lock Haven; Pa . TVTflv 7. A 1 1 ti J - nr 1 , 1 I ' J ' ' i, ucu puiieu on tying outside schoo'ihouse in Woodward town a W "f1001- ship was wrecked by lightning cu auu xjiriinugnam naa stood jas. nienf uubumcuisianceiromrnenouse, nraAfnrA Mn.7U.nW.u holding Towers' shoes, while heL . Aaai.. " :. . ... taming oo.uuu Darreis oi on was Altamont, Tenn., May 7. Miss1 Lula B. Sanders was married April 17 toJ. D. Mccks. Since her marriage Mrs. Meeks has lived pext door to Miss Kate Tipton. Although they saw each other many times a day they were. Constantly; exchanging n oteif - Several days ago Mrs. Meeks wrote to Miss Tipton informing her-that she would soon have to . leave her. Miss Tipton replied that she could not live without her. Mrs. Meeks' reply to this was found in Miss Tipton's bos-, om spattered with blood after she had shot herself. It was as follows: ' ' Dear Sweetheart Kate; I am goinpf to leave, and I Otight to he the hap- )ieet woman in all the world with tnor ove of two noble souls; but you have pierced my heart. 0, God! Kate, whac can I do to influence you to break your dark resolve. "It is you ordeathl" How can I live, darling Kate, when you are dead, dead? And why do I care to live when my dor- , ling is at heaven'fiFgate all on mj ac count? Good-by, my darlinjr and my love. Lula B. Sanders. Miss, Tipton's mother found some of Mrs. Meeks' letters and questioned her daughter as to their meaning. Without reply ing Miss Tipton kissed hef sis ter's children and went " to her room. She wrote to her mother and sister: "I cannot live with out Lula and take this means of putting an end to myself. Fare-' well. Don't blame Lula: I am to blame." She wrote to Mrs. Meeks. My love, farewell. We are caught, and rath-r than separate you I now rare mj uie. urop a teat-on tne frave of her who dies for you. Good y. Kate. Miss Tipton shot herself fatal ly through the breast. Mre. Meeks appears to be very, much grieved,- but declines to talk about the case. - 1 was getting the chickens. up in a spring ai en. xie was seized with the cramps, and m spite of the efforts of the other boys to rescue mm ne was drown ed. About eight minutes elaps ed before he could be dragged out. Speedy medical attendance failed to revive him. Concord Standards. L. Furr, of Locust Level, is a bee man; he has 48 stands. Last year he got 1,400 pounds of honey. Furr, says he alwajrs nas tne honey and brandy but he has not taken a drop of brandy in 35 years. Mr. Oscar Thies. not 21 vears of age, has made a euitar. It is a beautiful piece oi - . . .- -t r umrt Kiw ditterent Rinos oi wood were used and the finish is elegant. To look at the instru- ment one would tninu it was made by a regular skiUed work man in that line, lhe tone oi the instrument, wTe are told, is most excellent. A culprit in Tiflin, O., was sen tentenced by telephone last week. A new field opens for the telephone. Washington, May 7 The there twice lefore to see her but had not had a chance to ap proach her on the subject of mar ryaag. . He failed to come to sec her August, according to his prom ise, and after this failure she be gan to feaT that he was going to prove false to her. She visi ted her aunt, Mrs. Ingram, moth er of the defendant, in September following, and she and Mr. In gram went ; to the vineyard alone. She reproached him for treating her with neglect, and he still told her he was m earn est and would write her a note; to watch the postofKce for it, bat the note never came. During the cross-examination Mi'ss Knotts was so overcome with grief many times that she broke vdown and sobbed aloudv All the witnesses for the plaintiff testified to her high moral char acter and social standing. The defendant, when placed upon the stand, testified that he had visiled Miss Knotts attdhad taken her to church; had talked to her about being sweethearts, It is said that Birmingham fired by lightning last night. Sev Comptroller of the Currency has declared a second dividend of 15 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the People's National Bank, Fn vet te ville. N. C. making 35 ! j - : . , - , . . an claims proveu, many persons were orougnt to but denied asking her to marry him; told her. they were too closely related to marry, being double second cousin. Mr. Ingram tried to hide from the court what he was actually worth said he supposed he was worth $4,000 or .$5,000. It shown bv the tax books that his property was assessed at$18,000. Witnesses for defendant all testified as to his good charac ter. Counsel on both sides was very able, and many times dur ing the speeches for the plaintiff Keokuk, Iowa, May 7. The California express on the Santa Fe Railroad, which left Kansas City last evening, went through a bridge east of Medill, Mo., at an early hour this morning. The entire train;, with the excep tion of the rear sleeper, went down into a stream fearfully swollen by last night's storm. It is reported that twenty peo ple were killed and fifteen or twenty injured; but it-is impos sible at this time to get accur ate information. The wires be tween this city and Medill have been down all day. The nerviest thing heard of in these ends of the earth lately j was a speech made by iWr. T. L. ILowe, a Third party man, at the Paw Creek Democratic pri mary yesterday. Speaking of the twelfth plank in the St. Lou js platform, he aid; ,the Union soldiers are entitled to the diff erence between greenback and gold at the time they were paidi and ought to have it. We all can at least admire Mr. Lowe for his candor and commend Jiim for not lying and whiffling about that twelfth plank, as so many of his brethren are doing. Charlotte Observer. ernl houses were cft-iiMr and Towers made the plot last i . r .. . , . 71 i wuuuajf lu sicai loc cmcKens and take them to a negro house where they were frequent visi tors and have them cooked; They were both under the influ ence of liquor. nd a vio Fishes From the Clouds. lent electric shocks, though no one was seriously injured. At Mount Jewett two oil well rigs, tanks, &c were burned, to gether with a large amount of oil. Troy, N. Y., May 7. Swollen streams from the surrounding mountains caused the Benning ton River, near Bennington, Vt., to overflow its banks this after noon, beveral bridcres were per cent, on amounting to $114,353. 1 tears. Fire at Tokio,-Japan, destroyed 5,000 house and caused a heavy loss of life. Reed of Maine will in a few days formally announce his candidacy for the Pre8idency The Southern Baptist Conven tion is session at Atlanta. The attendance is especially large from this State. ... j .The Unitea States is said td be paying between- $8,000,000 and $10,000,000 a year an pensions to foreigners Vnarlotte Observer Mr. W. v au iius snown tne VDserver some remarkable growths from his farm I here waa lucerne, crimson clover and orchard grass two feet high; and oats three and a-haif f-et h'ighj the finest specimen of which was that showing 200 stalks from one grain The latter Mn Vail says, exceeds anything-he ever raised before His farm is just a mfle from Charlotte, and this shows what can be grown around here, with the proper care-. Mrs. Kate Boyd of Le Lueur, 3linn., has recovered a Verdict for $3,000 affamst a mmny wnonad tarred and I feathered her. A Terrific Cyclone - Sweeps Urongli Kansas. Scranton, Pa., May 7. In a heavy rainstorm at Forest City, near here, fishes fell from the ctonda, and citizens gathered washed away. The track of the them up by thehandful. Thev vVUx..TC w iuur iucucj, was inundated for half a mile long and of the species known and all trains are reported twelve ucYii-nsn or scone wallers' hours behind time J. L. Bell, a hotel man, found a number m a small pool of water. They were kept in wa ter and are still alive. Editor John M Brown, of the News, and Mr. T. J. Pentecost, a mer chant, in order to make sure that the fished came from the clouds, went out on a roof and found four fishes there. r It has been suggested that the fish were caught up in the whirl ot the storm and earned along and dropped when the heavy downpour overcame the current of air in which-they were float ing. Topeka, Kan., May. 7. A dis astrous cyclone, destructive to life and property, last evening struck the farming community of Tevis, a village on the Mis souri Pacific Rail Voad, ten miles southeast of Topeka. A farmer named Mitchell was killed. John P. Hill was badly injured, and may not recover His wife and child were also badly in jured. The bulidings and fences on the farms of J P Hill, Silas Zeigler and Thos. Brooks were demolished. For a space of about two miles square the farmers suffered severely. Many people were more or less injured. A- number of physicians have just left Topeka at this hour (noon) in response to calk from the locality. Hail fell in great quantity, destroying the fruit prospects and breaking the trees. Call for the Third District Convention. Wilmington, N. C, April 12th; 1892. The Democratic Congressional Executive Committee of the Third District met in the city of Wilmington on Tuesday, April 12th, 1892, at 1 o'clock p. m., by call of Dr. Cyrus Thompson, Chairman of the Committee. Mr. W. K. Pigford, of Sampson county, was elected a member of the Committee in place of W. S. Thompson, who hnS left the District, and Mr. P. M.Pearsall, from Jones county, was appoin ted in place of Mr. C. H. Foy, who has also left the District. Mr. Pearsall nominated Clin ton, in Sampson county, as the place for holding the next Dem ocratic Convention, which was unanimously adop ted. The con vention is to meet on Wednes day, July 20th. The committee provided that tVl r(Acrct f a r tVi Vi f o f Crr- vention from the Third District select delegates to the National Democratic Convention. A resolution was passed re questing all papers in the dis trict to publish the proceedings of the meeting, as well as those outside which circulate in the district. Cyrus Thompson, P. M. Pearsjlll, Chairman. Acting Sec'y. a Central Park policeman at a New York fire caught a falling lad der, saving a dozen lives, but lost his own. John W. Hodges, a citizens of Cum berland comity, residing near Hopes Mills, was brought here yesterday evening by Deputy United Bratea Marshal J. is. Holland, oi Ddnn, X, C, who arrested him under a wa: rant charging him with violating the United States statutes relating to een ding communications or letters to lotteries throngll the mails. The accused will have a shearing , before the United States District court nov in session in this city. wu, Mesea ffer. " ; j
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