MR
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"LIVE AND LET LIVE."
G. K GEAjYTHAM, Local Uditcr,
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Volume I.
DTJNJXT, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1891.
Number 28.
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GrriClAL DIREGT0RY.
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( utility Officers:
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S q - ri'-r Court (. E. Priui
r f lelrt-H. T. Ri-ears.
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W. F. SwHini, J. M. HMle.
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ALLIANCE.
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IH K II DIRECTORY.
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Mil Rev. J.
D. rwiram,
Cliftr;'-iunn, M Sunday night
ji!,.14Mi S'!Q.lav mill night, hunday scnapi
,h r. S iri!pv at :? o'clock.- Prayer Meeting
..v.- v,.-,lhf"n.!Ky night. Black's Chapel, 1st
Sim.'!:tj tu rtilu- Avera's School House, 2d
K m !-t ln-'vniirg. Elevation, 3d Sunday
in '.iiiini:.. B-iisnii, M Sunday afternoon
r.t -i-t fuin.-h Vv.?v. V, Y. Watson, Pastor,
-h.. .1 at '.h'Wa.jii.. 11. G.Taylor, SuptJ
k-ivt:.-s ii a. in., 8:30 . m. second and
r :r'h Siiii.!:iy. Prayer Meeting overv ThurB-
iv.- N::ii p. ui. All M.i-dItlly inviUsd
l-il.xtnrian Rf'v. G. A. Hough, Pastor.
! .'v-ry 1st Sunday niurnlng and night.'
rs't -lav s .fi.i cvi rv Suiidav morning a.t
eV!.. k. ' - "
I i, ip!.-s ;. y. J. ii. (lii.glo, Pastor. Ber-
i.-.-s vry Sunday morning and night,
h iu'Jhv .:hooi: '2:'.V) o'-hxk every Sunday.
Ti i vt-r meeting "every ThurKtlay night.
I i.-.. will Baotiht Rev. R. A. Johnson,
Pastel . Seivh-ca every 3rd Sunday
h.H.l cvitv Sunday rnoiing.
Sunday
EOIXIK D1RKCTOUY. '
I.'.i 'kii-.w I,...l v.. 11., I. 0.0. F.- Reg
:,r in.tiiig everv Tuas-l:iy hlght. I. W. Tay
:"t N . U. i K. ftr,i:itham. V. (,i. K. F. Grat
!,;ii:t, S.i.-i'rtary. R. G. Tay!r Troa. -
iaiiiirii i.i k;w . m. a. iuiu a
i:-gular liH-etihg, 3rd Saturday morning
Fri liiv'uight lifore 1st Sunday. I. W.
l. r. V. M.. F. J.in.w, S. W., J. L. Phi
J. V.,. R. A. J.thusnn, Treasurer, S. W.
Palnura I..ge No. 14T. A. F, and A. ii.
i:-gular liK-etihg, 3rd Saturday morning and
Tay-
hillipri,
Par-
kT. S-rftary; W. A. Johnoe and Kldndgd
!.! St'-Warf ; U. J. Norri, Tyler.
IMlTlNi AWAY,
I'riftiiiu ifway from eaeh other, f
Sil.-ntly drifting ajmrt; I
. N-thinu lf.t.ii fait the cold woil rssTeen'
N-.th'.i'.i; to lose hut a heart.
Pnivt-vo !i-s d;vidjr.y
v-iv ai.i nu:i-e eve;y da. :
;..! ..fi.. from aiv.tlier auif
t-;;diiy drifting away
i
'i;!y a man's ln-art .striving
Uit - i'ly iuud with its doom;
"rily a hand, tender and Wand,
si.ij.plng away in the gloom.
!.!!! j I d.nil.t or Wolio,
9 l.iu that tii'h-n-aii evirep
;'..!. g ! o &hu,,. uuthing to I hnie,
N t'dilii to .Jo hut einlure.
TI:- world .-annot st;uid st ill,
fl l-s fhh. and women ehnmre- . '
r . r- i
V . : i .J . .
.Miit; nere i
me l,.Ve i.-s
at is worth a tear.
nothing strange.
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aw. iv t
foni eaoli other.
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v. ,
eadily drifting apart
wr.-ni; to ea.-h that the world can reach,
t.mii
t l n.t o heart.
Selected.
. " A Chinese newspaper published
hi Kan Tr.nu iseo has been sued for
lil ! In- a no-ro and an Indian.
lhe largest prupe yine iu the
yorld is siid to be growing at Oys,
iVrtugal. :ilid lias bpen bearing
fi'ih si not iSO'j,
A Tolish lady, the Countess
Jh-aniclia, owns what are said to
o ti;o fmost
sapphires
the
l--xpenments made by Austrian
i r.ilrtary engineers with the new ex
lsi.o ;to s;ot ;hat it had
I'xplosivo power twioo that of
vii;iinite.
A liurlin;4on, Yt, barber recent
ly beat all records 'by going out
fustowcr wa. gating Inhered
Ins assistant. V;
X
VOuim i f rl nt 1 i i..,a- .1- 1 i
nnsseldorf from excessive joy.v She
had been promised one of the most
deli'htful of Til-.iiirt - ... i
the prospect filled her with such
o' trpowermg joy as to produce a
f t:m upon the hearts action, and
ue fell to the floor and died
THE. STATE CAPITAL
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING IX AND
AIIOUT RAL.EIGH.
Novel Feature at the Ex position
Out at Falls of Neusc Music
For the Great Ex position
I Miscellaneous.
V il'B HKS1VKST COBRFSPO.VLiT.
Raleigh,, August 29, '91.
Several of the portraits of the justices
of the Supreme Court lo not yet adorn
the walls of the stately room in which
tlmt court meets. The families of these
distinguished guests ought to see that
the collection of portraits is made com
plete. By September 1 it is exacted that
the new type aid now press of the New,
and Observer will be here. There will
be an entirely new outfit and the paper
will have ei&ht columns. In its new
gard it will appear the first week in Sep
tember. , A -NOVEL FEATUItE AT THE EXPOSITION.
The management of the Southern Ex
position have arranged a novel .plan for
the farmers within five or six. days drive
of the city. They have had plotted off
a large tract of land into small plots of
fifteen by thirty feet, whifh are fenced
in, with a gate or entrance to each; atd
they are. advertising extensively for the
farmers and all who desire to do so, to
go to the Exposition in their' own
wagons, and " carryii'ovisions with them
for a stay of a week or ten days.
This is a novel plan. The city of
wagons will have police regulations, and
will be guarded ut night b- duly com
missioned policemen wEjpse duty will be
to proervo order, as well ils to see that
no one molests the property of those
camping out. Parties having ladies
with them will bo placed in different
camping grounds from the parties who
have men Exclusively, and special care
will be taken to - preserve the very'best
of order.
OUT AT FAUjS OF XEUSE.
Mr, Newton Holding says that not
much moro' remains to be" done before
tie new wood pulp mill can Ix'giu opera
tions. The building is framed, the
machinery has arrived, and the only
thing to be put in is the turbine wheel
a 300 horse power ' 'Success, " Fox this
a very largo whoebpit will 'have to be
dug, Au extremely .valuable quality of
granite has been found near the mills.
It will lie remembered that the old paper
mill is built of that stone. The capacity
of the latter mill is doubled by the new
machinery now in use. All sorts of pa--per
are now mace there from ordinary
wrapper to, the finest itook.- Dy the way,
the scenery at the Falls of Neuse is by
far the most picturesque in this part of
the State.
MUSIC FOR THE EXPOSITION.
ThCliand that is to furnish music for
the Exposition has .been tiolroted from
he most talented, musicians. Some of
them come froin as fur as White Mourr
tiius of New Hampshire, and two from
Europe. The selection of the musicians
was made by the musical director, who
had directions to select the best, so as to
furnish the most complete band that has
yet performed at a Southern exposition.
?(OT CAtTVftEH YET
J.Viehatl -Veets, the fellow who teu
days ago shot Conductor Kirkland at
Hamlet, haa never been captured. His
home is at JeFarland, on the Cheraw
and Salisbury railway. He may be
lurking in that section.' KirklamVs
condition is not improved,. He ?s a his
home here, carefully nursed. The two
bullets have not yet been extracted
MISCELLANEOUS.
Work at the power-house of the elec
tric car company goes on very slowly.
There will have to be some hustling to.
get all V.e system, in. operation by Sep
tomber 25th, the date now fixed.
Twenty-five theatrical companies have
been booked at the theatre here for
October' aud November, during the ex
position. The exterior of the theatre
... ' -i mi
will next month be repainted. ne njj
terior will all be decorated, the work
b.nng in the hands of Jfarx -UittliAlorfer
a professional from Richmond. There
will be new scenery and now chairs:
Four hundred and fifty Northern
'II t i I " A ?
newspaper pieu win visit uie exposmou. i
These will come inT scvej-al pat-ties and ;
special arrangements iifve pe-." mane j
for them. They are all selected. j
The negroes are taking a lively iutert j
est in their distinctive part in1us grei.t ;
Southern Eipostiwit and will entirely
fill a spacious building set apart for their.;
use.
Work on the C;mileigh branch rail
way will now go ou, the troubles having
I'D m settled. The iron" has not yet ar
riyed. Uliie number of. farm and stock inort-:
gages recorded in this county is oonsid
erably less this J ear than usual. It ia
pvqn lesa thn last year, when a great
falling off was observable.
Arkansas, at its recent Wcrld's Fan
convention, which was a very enthusias
tic one, adopted a plan of the stock
company, order whereby it epeta to raise
$100,000 for its representation at the
Fair. .
A YOUTIIEl'L, BIOAMIST.
Only 18 Years of Age and He Has
Three Wives.
Buffalo, N. Y., August 29. Harry
j. Thorner, the son of Millionaire Dr.
Thorner, is locked up here on a charge
of bigamy. He is only 18 years old,
and is said to have three wives in differ
ent parts of th' country, one in Buffalo,
one in Philadelphia aud oue in Boston.
It is said that he and his latest wife
boarded with Dr. Robinson, of Niagara
Falls, for four weelrp, and one dark night
they stole away, getting out of a win
dow, taking their baggage with them.
Perhaps the most notable case was his
hasty courtship and marriage with 'Jand
"Westcott, a young and decidedly pretty
girl in one of the leading dry goods
houses in this city. He wooed and won
her under the alias of Hairy .Hamlin,
having assumed the name of the Dela
ware millionaire.
Under tliis name he Ixiat boarding
house proprietors, and tluV girl soon
found out her mistake, and. in three
weeks, she had secured a divorce.
AX ELOPER SHOT.
He Returns Home, Is Forgiven, and
Dies Mysteriously.
Johnstown, Pa., August 28. Harry
-Viller eloped a week ago with his cook,
leading a wife and two children in desti
tute circumstances. A few night ago
he returned and pleaded with his wife
for forgiveness, and she withdrew the
charge of desertion which she had pre
ferred against him.
Several hours tfterward, while she
and Jyiller were sitting on the porch, a
pistol shot was heard, and when the
neighbors rushed in Jiller was dead.
His wife reported that he had walked
out toetfi drink of water, and, without
saying a word, pulled a pistol aud shot
himself.
Later a jury was impaneled which will
meet on 3onday to take evidence. In
the meantime the wife has been placed
under surveillance as beiug implicated
in the shooting. '
A LilTTIiE OIRL.'S SAD STORY.
Ltured from a Picnic and Hrntally
Treated in the Woods.
Ashland, Pa., August 29. The pco
pie of this vicinity are stirred up oter
the tale told by Mary Stitzer, the 7-year-old
girl who was brutally treated by an
unknown miscreant. The man lured
her away from the Evangelical Church
picnic on Monday, and took her riding
in his buggy. When he reached a lonely
woods he alighted, 'lilted her out aud
assaulted lier, and then kept her in the
woodsAvitU him all night. Tho child is
in precarious condition.
A Ciood Joke.
There is a colored barber doing a good
business in the neighborhood of Tenth 1
aud Chestnut streets who, liko most of
his brethren, is very superstitions. He
has not stopped sddvoring yet from a
searo had a few days ago, which came
about in this way: John J. Curley, of
tho Committee of Fifty, took his seat in
the chair, and while quickly removing
from his customer's good-natured eVmii
tenance a three-days growth of hair tha
barber kept up a running conversation
with him on politic. The ojieration
over, JAr, Cvvly put 011 his hat and left
the shop. Just outside the door he met
his twin brother Tom, who is his exact
image in every respect Tom, who also
needed a shave, entered the shop. The
barber looked at him, and his black fac
assumed an ashen hue. "Did'w' I don
shave yo' jes' now, Hd1' he gasped.
The second. -Vr. Curley grasped the sit-
oAtion at once and said; You pretended
to, but you made a miserable jo of it.
Now I want you to. shave me right, and
I don't propose to pay you for it." The
barber was too nervous to hold . the"
razor, and was lelieypd assistant,
Mr, Cvivlcy cuiied oiit the joke, and
eft ti6 shop, but afterward sent a boy
around with the money and an explana
tory mtte. Philadelphia Record.
Housekeeping. aUnlincl.
Vfeo washing $oda in boiling water to
remove green sUins from your brick
walk.
Joist tea leaves will stain a very
light-colored carpet; use them only on
dark colors.
A Maine woman, xtei sOe whes to.
jj,eu bet.ns 'ittns
Qg w-iin'er- '
them
through
the
-New tins should be set oyer the fire
filled with watert for &re Lxrvrrs before
us;n tfcem.,
Corks which have been steeped in
vaseline are said to lie an excellent
substitute for glass stoppers.
Carbolic acid is the lst disiufecuiiit
known. It not only de.-nys. iwu odors
but also fc'riVl3 disv-ivse,
In trying out" or cl .r'fying butter it
is done- when tho froth begins to rise.
Skim, strain , ntore in a cool place and
keep well covered.
To get a gootl polish on mahogany
easilv, mix one part of boiled linseed
oil with two parts of al.'oh'U ellac
yarnish. S$3& & WV - using.
Apply in small quantities, with a cloth,
and rub "the work vigorously until the
desired violuh is secured. ,
A STEAMSHIP WRECKED.
The Montank, From New York, Aban
doned offXewfoundland. J
Pkespasst, N. F., August 23.-The j
wreck of the steamship Jbntank, from
New York, was lying last Friday night
right up against the rocks at -Vistaken
Point, near Cape Race, and was lialf full
of water. Considerable of the cargo was
taken off. s
At 3 o'clock Saturday morning, with
out any warning, a havy sea struck the
Jontank, sweeping tjlear over her. In
the excitement sonic 'of the persons on
loard jumped into the breakers; and
others fell overboard, but all are sup
posed to have been rescued.
The vessel lias leen abandoned and
cannot be saved. The captain and
crew hope to get back to New York on
board the steamship 3iranda.
A FARMER'S QUEER DEATH.
He Is Tossed Into a Coffin, Although
' " Worth $10,000. -
Altoona, Pa., August 28. Augustus
Hench, of Sinking Valley, this county,
died suddenly on Tuesday last froni
causes unknown. Ho was buried the
following day, and was placed iu Ids
coffin just as he died.. To-day Coroner
Poet, of this city, had the remains ex
humed. It is said that he had been
leaten over the head the day before his
death. Hench was an industrious farm
er and was worth about $10,000. The"
members of the family asked for an in
vestigation in the matter.
In the Large Cities.
A Philadelphia Chinaman has thirty
j go Is. i- '
IJerlin, with 1,315,000 people, has
only 2G, 800 dwellings.
Of the twelve largest cities in the
.world three are in Japan.
London theater-going is said to have
declined to a remarkable extent.
Washington is the only city of any
size in this country that possesses no
factories. '
During the List ten years the Paris
Gas Company has paid into the city
treasury $40,000,000.
Berlin has just decided, that wooden
pavements are a failure, while Constan-
j tinople is having the first one put down.
Tho first London directory was
printed in 1GG7 aud contained but sixty
four pages, with the names of 1,790 per
sons and firms.
There are upward of fifty hospitals
in London. The earliest, St. Bartholo
mew's, was founded in 1102, and St.
Thomas, in 1552.
Chicago expects to complete its new
Jasonio temple, twenty stories, or 275
feet high, by the first of Jay, 1892. It
"ftil1 be five feet higher .than the' tower
of the famous Auditorium in the same
city. . r
Lovers as Others See Them.
The clergyman wastes his breath who
talks of the happiness of the world to
come to a youth who has just received
his first qvo letter. Cape Cod Item.
She (trustingly) "Am I the only girl
you ever loved, Jack?" Jack "Why
yes certainly, my dear that is to say
the only girl I ever loved as. I love
you, my darling." Somerville Journal.
Penelope; "There is one thing aloutf
us, Jack, that I liko. We are sensible
lovers. We don't use that idiotic baby
talk," Tack "No. And we never will,
either, will we?" Penelope "Nopey."
Harper's Bazar.
She "I Km afraid that bell ringing
means another caller." He (imploring-'
lv) "You know there is such a thing
as your not being at home." She
MYej and there is such a thing as my
being engaged." Brooklyn Life.
Throughout 0e Country. .
It will cost Fred, W. Vanderbilt $24,
987,50 duties on fiis new imported
yacht, '
v Doug" Braddock killed -two negroes
in a quarrel over cotton at Flatonia,
Tex,
" Ohio business men will raise a fund to
help Sherman to the Senate again,
1ey are not bothering with -VcKinley,
A Kansas company has boen conceded
.OOO.OO'O fibres of land in Nicaragua.
Tiiey wiU oraonize
3000 families and
raise coffee.
Lewis KirJhner's baby, at Brooklyn,
alarmed the family in the middle of the
night that the house was on fire. Mr.
Kirchner lost SboU Irom his vest pocKei,
I A burglar held a revolver to the head
of Miss Trevende Yisser. daughter pi ft
large r;al e.stite dealer of Qrand Ilapid,
Jick, oil FviiVT nigM and cut off her
1 luxuriant hair dose to her head, ,
Alpheas C. Johnson, a farmer, who
diaappeaivd from Ionia, Michigan, in
1873, and who was pronounced legally
dead in 1881, has turned up to claim his
estate, which had been sold and divided
between his wife and daughter.
.Venibtrs of th,e. ?ew Y'oik Produce
Echunj "caught throwing dough, corn
or other articles about . the Exchange
rooms hereafter willdie fined 50 eents.
Smoking is placed at the same figure,
and it costs teu dolhus to walk on tlc
cornices. . .
A IJLOOIY BRITISH IIAXT.IXCiS.
A Rumor That Berry Was Drunk
When He Hanged Conway.
London, ,Augnst 29. The hideous
scene enacted at the C- uway execution
has caused an outcry throughout the
country which is not unlikely to prove
the beginning of the end of capital pun
ishment, and is certain in any case to
greatly strengthen the agitation of its
abolition.
The exclusion of reportors from exe
cutions has long leen a sore subject, and
as the officials have fully exercised this
power in many eases an uneasy suspi
cion exists that other similar butcheries
may have been hnshed up. In this in
stance reporters were present, but they
were hurried off as soon as it transpired
what had occurred.
Executioner Berry declares that tho
drop stipulated for by the authorities is
much too great, bnt his protest was of
no avail. But it is also rumored, that he
was carousing on the previous night,
and at present it is impossible to say
where the blame lies.
The public will insist uj)on a rigid in
quiry, especially as there are statements
afloat that at the execution at "Wands
worth last week a juryman found the
rope- saturated with blood, but was not
allowed to seethe .neck of the victim,
which was covered with thick wadding.
SAVINGS OF A L.1FE-TIME LOST.
A Woman Knocked Down and Rob'
t bed ot Probably $20,000.
Oconomowoc, Wis., August 28. The
house of James Gorman, a bachelor who
lived with his sister-near 2iddleton, was
entered a few afternoons ago by an un
known man, who knocked Iiss Gorman
down and robbed the couple of the sav
ings of a life "time, which were wrapped
up in a cloth fiackage. Neither Gorman
nor his sister know just how. much was
taken, but it is estimated to 1x3 nearly
$20,000.
The Industrial Progress of the South.
The Manufacturers' Record of August
22 says:
While midsummer usually brings a
certain amount of dullness everywhere,
the signs of the times all point to a busy
and prosperrlis fall and winter. The
certainty of enornious grain crops
through tout the country and a lieavy
foreign demand gives assurance of general
business prosperity, which will prove of
great benefit to the South. Abundant
wheat and corn frops will largely offset
the low price of cotton, and the South
will be jirepared to maintain its position
in the great industrial advance of the
whole country. 3any great erterprises
including ' railroads to open up mineral
and timber regions of vast wealth-creating
possibilities, iron mining and manu
facturing concerns, steel works, cotton
mills, etc., are being put into shape for
active construction work in the near
future.
The development of Florida phosphate
interests attracts increased attention, and
heavy investments are being made for
the purchase of phosphate lands and the
building of phosphate works. Large
tracts of mineral and1 timber lands are
being secured by capitalists, who are
wise enough to see that now is the time
to buy, and in every line of progress
there are indications of renewed activity
so soon as the world's financial interests
are in good shape.
Among tiie enterprises reported in this
week's issue of the ilanufacturers' Record
are the organization of-a $1,000,000 com
pany by some of tho leading capitalists
of New England, who recently purchased
the water-power canal at Columbia, S.
C, for the purpose" of building large cot
ton mills ; a$1000,000 phosphate company
in Flordia; a $1,000,000 coal andiron
company at Chickamaugua, a $100,000
electric light company in Wheeling W.
Va. ; a $1,000,000 development company
at Mddlesborongh, Kyf; a $500,000
development company at Anniston, Ala. ;
$10,000 wood-working factory in Texas;
large sugar refinery in Fort Bend county,
Texas, $20,000 water works company at
3 laird, Texas; cotton mill in North Caro
lina; a $100000 paving block company
atRoauoke, Va.; $75,000 building com
pany at Clifton Forge, Va.; $50,000
manufacturing company at Newport, Ky.
the sale of 12,000 acres of timber land
in Sevier county, Tcnn., for develop
ment; a $500,000 improvement company.
and a $300,000 mining company in
Kentucky; a $20,000 ice company in,
Newport, Ky. ; a company to mine ore
and build furnaces in Tennessee; a $75,
000 fertilizer company in Darlington, S.
C.; . a $100,000 fire-brick company at
Bessemer, Ala. ; $100,000 "cotton seed-oil
mill company in Louisiana; $100,003
electric-light company in Washington I
$25,000 1 lumber company and $50,000
palmetto manufacturing company in
Florida; $100,000 ice and eleotrio light
company in Louisiana; $200,000 town
building company in West Virginia;
$10,000 brick company at Huntington,
W, Va., etc. t
Briefly summarized as in the foregoing
this list thows that, notwithstanding
summer heat and the troubles that have
f Allowed financial stringency in this
i, country and abroad, the So.tL is push
ing forward vigoronAly in establishing
new enterprises to create wealth out of
its abundant natural resources.
THE STATE SURVEYED, i
NUMEROUS NEWSY NOTES FR03I
OUR BRIGHT EXCHANGES.
What lias and Will Happen of Inter
est Throughout the Old North
State--Industrial and
Otherwise.-
A canning factory has been started at
Ayr, it is reported.
Anson county- has refused to grant
license to sell liquors in her borders.
The organization pi a' land improve
ment company is talked of aC Albemarle.
A thirteen-year-old boy was brought
to the penitentiary from .Orange county
last week.
Tho Carolina Clay Company ill, it is
reported, enlarge its cbina-clat works at
Dillsboro.
3f. McCurry intends erecting a two
story brick business" building 90x38 feet
at Marion.
Walter Band has recently put planing
mill machinery in his lumber mill at
Smithfield. "
John Harrington, colored, has shown
the Concord Standard the first lxll of
cotton it ever saw.
' Glover & Co. have, it is reported, pur
chased and will develop kaolin lands
near Dillsboro. -
J. H. Pou has recently improved and
laid off into building lots a tract o land
adjacent to Smithfield.
Wilson it Son, of Rutherfordton, have,
according to report, started a canning
factory at Jills' Spring.
Concord now has seven cotton mills
and $75,000 has jiist been subscribed for
the erection of another one.
The tobacco manufacturers of ; Wins
ton shipped over two hundred thousand
pounds of tobacco last week.
C. Dunkel, R. T. Armstrong, Miss,
Maggie Tillery and Bunn & Battle will
erect business buildings at Rocky Mount.
The Goldsboro Lumber Company, of
Goldsboro, will erect handsaw mill, dry
kilns and planing 'mills of 50,000 feet
daily capacity at Dover.
The building of a new court house at
3onroe by Union county at a cost of
about $14,000 is contemplated. The
county clerk can give particulars.
The Rutherfordton Lanuf and Indus
trial Company will build a hotel to cost
from $50,000 to $100,000, but work may
not be commenced before next spring.
T. H. B. Haise, representing a North
ern manufactuier desirous of removing
his plant South, has been investigating
Winston's advantages. The plant makes
carriages, wagons, agricultural imple
ments, etc.
P. B. Fetzar is president, and C. W
Swink, of Charlotte, secretary and treas
urer, of the Stanly Janufacturing, Com
pany, recently reported- as incorporated
to manufacture sash, doors ahd blinds at
New London.
Jim Garrison the negro on Walter
Pharr's place who was struck on the
head by another negro last week, with a
rock, and skull trepanned, is dead. His
murderer fled and has never' been cap
tured, says, the Charlotte Chronicle.
The Conover Lumber and Wheel
Manufacturing Company has recently
been incorporated with J. Hunsucker as
president, and J. L. Yonnt, 'secretary,
ar.d is now erecting sash, door, blind
and wheel factory. The capitd stock is
$20,000.
The Granite City Land and Improve
ment Company contemplates building
the railroad from Mt. Airy to the Mt
Airy White Sulphur Spring, a distance
of about four miles mentioned in last
issue. The line is to be operated by
either electricity or dummy engnls.
C. B. Jordan, of Beunettsville, S. C.
recently organized a $00,000 stock com
pany to purchase and improve the
"White Sulphur Springs property near
Mt. Airy, and consolidated tame with
the Granite City Land and Jmprove-
ment Company, mentioned last week.
F. A. Hull, of Daifbury, Conn.; H.
P. Wyman and T. Cairns, of Pineville,
Ky.,-have purchased the "Eves" tract
of about 40,000 acres of" mineral land at
Highlands. The tract contains iron,
gold, kaolin, corundum and mica, and
it is to be leased for development.
J. C. Winder, of Raleigh, general
manager of the Seaboard Air Line sys
tern, has reccntlv stated that the com
pany 'a machine shops at Raleigh will
probably le removed to Monroe. -Mention
was iuade in theso columns (under
Raleigh) some time ago of a removal
being contemplated, but no point a.,
at that time, being considered. ;
A. C. Zollicoffer and others have pur
chased and will operate -the Henderson
Electric and Gas Light Company's elec
trio light plant as reported last week.
They will operate as the Henderson
Light and Power ' Company having or
ganized same with Mr. Zellicoffer cs
president; J. D. Cooper, vice-president,
and J. R. Young, secretary.
OWDER KILLS EIGHT.
I Awful Explosion at the Mouth ofa
; 3Hne Piteous Appeals.
j Bckke, Idaho, August 29. Eight men
j were killed by the explosion of 200
j iodnds of giant powder at tho mouth of
i the tower tuiiuel of .the Black Bear
i .
.vine, near here, ou Wednesday.. Four
men were imprisoned at tho "breast of the
drift by a rock which caved in, and were
suffocated. The bodies of four otlier
miners are not yet found, but all hope of
finding them alive luis lieen given up
The explosion was terrific, tearing up
earth and caving ir. the tunnel for a dis-
xnee of 100 feet. . v -
A rescuing party recovered tho bodies
of G. McNeil, General ' -Vanager; John
Jense, Assistant -Vanager; Robert Black
burn and John .Barron's, miners. The
four others missiner it - is fe.ar,1 Worn
blown to . atoms. Jense is a brother of
one of the proprietors, and -Vr. Black
burn was Secretary" of tho Central min
ers' Union a V Burke. ?
A short time before relief camo to the
f ated men inside a ioice was heard by
the men outside, saying: "For God's
sake, hurry up!" But they were reached'
too late, for the gas had suffocated
them.
Plan to Hold Hack the Cotton Crop.
Columbia, S. C, Aug. 29. Captain
Richard O'Neal, of this city, in an
open letter urges the fanners of tho
South to entirely withhold half of this
years, cotton crop from the m-irket and
give notice to the world that no cotton
will bo produced next year. Tho sub
ject is attracting attention in the Sub -alliances
and it is now uuder considera
tion to form a trust in the county Alli
ances in whose hands
-- utttA kill:
present crop will be placed so as to as
sure its entire retirement from the
market- . "
It is pretty "pertain that something
tending to overcome tho inordernately
bearish tone of the cotton market will
be consumated by means of the Alli
ance. The Richland County Alliance
tb-day unanimously adopted resolu
tions. -calling upon -tho cotton growers
of South Carolina to withhold one
third of the yield of the present crop
from market. -
PUT AJULiiKT IN HIS HEAD.
A Hingham House Guest Attempts
Suicide With a Pistol.
Frank Johnson, of New York, about
55 years old, shot himself in his room at
the Bingham House, Philadelphia, last
night, at . 10 o'clock, ire was removed
to Jefferson Hospital in an unconscious
condition, where Doctors. Egan and
Hager operated on him. The bullet,
from a small Colt's revolver penetrated
the biise of the brain, and at 1 o'clock
this morning they had not succeeded in
extracting it. The doctors sayrthero is
but little hope of his recovery. In his
room were found several telegrams ad
dressed to different people, which, with
his other effects, were taken in charge by
tho police.
DIVED FIVE STORIES TO DEATH-
Peculiar Suicide of n Man With
n
,1,ANT
Mania in Ills Family.
New Youk, August 29. Painter
Joseph -Vusic, of No. 200 ' Avenue B,
committed suicide at 3 o'clock this morn
ing by diving from the fifth story of tho
building. He. struck on his head in tho
courtyard and was instantly killed. He -told
one of the lxiarders that his father
had committed suicide two months ago,
and that there was a suicidal mania in
his family.
World Fair Note.
More thau $5,000,000 of Exposition
work is now contracted for and is in
progress.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has decided to
make an extensive exhibit, aud a request
for space has lx.'cu cabled.
Massachusetts will devote $10,000" to v
its educational exhibit. The BUte's en
tire appropriation is $75,t00.
Guatemala luia appropriated $100,000
iii gold for itij exhibit at the Exposition,
and $20,000 additional for its building. -
It is rporlel that the Prince of Wal',
Emperor William of Germany, and th"
Shah of Persia all 'seriously con tern p!ate
visiting Jhe World's Fair in 1893.
The 'photographer pf the country .
want a separate building at the Exposi
tion, adapted to-a magnificent photo
graphic exhibit collected from tho whole
world.' A committee has been appointed
to confer w ith the Exposition officials
upon the subject.
Of the 106 counties iu Kansas eightj
five have organized World's Fair as
sociations for'the purpose of raising their
apportionment of . the $100,000 which
Kansas started out to provide for its re
presentation at the Exposition. Twenty- -two
counties have already raised tin ir
full share. , . '
The Territorial convention of the
Liberal party in Utah lias voted to re
quest the Legislature to appropriate not
less than $100,000 lor the Territory
representation at the Exposition. It .
is reported that, the. Democratic and
Republican conventions are certain to-
take similar action, j