North Carolina Newspapers

7 1 G H- V G. K. GRANTHAM, Editor Render Unto Caesar the Thing that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. $1.00 Per Annum, in Advance. VOL.-II. DUNN, HARNETT CO., NIC., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1862 NO 2. ! i it i ) J- i SELECT SIFT1NUS. There arc twenty-nine kinds of Metho dists. Twelve average tea plants produce one pound of tea. A pet dog in Paris, France, weare stoc kings and shoe?. Tw o centuries and seven different men claim the invention of gunpowder. A . woman .has begun business as a watchmaker in Christiana, Norway. Butler County, Penn., has a genius who drcarci3 the correct location of oil wells. : - - Poor persons are supplied with spec " tacles tree of charge by a Boston (Mass.) fcociery. The proportion of pure Anglo-Saxon words in the Bible is uinety-seveu per cent, of the whole. British horses were famou? when Julius Casar invaded the country. lie carried houic of them to Home with -him. An old well in California which, for a '.J number of years, has furnished excellent J water, ;has suddenly turned into au oil -r well. Tn the sleepy little town of Winborae, in Dorsetshire, Euglau l, is ai ancient . , 'ibr.try in which all the books are chained It the .selves ft is a co.-nmon sight amon the Es quimaux, according to a traveler's story, 'ojsce a nursing infant with a quid of .tobacco in it3 mouth. .In Ige Story was at Harvard College at fifteen, in Congress at twenty-nine and Ju lge of the Supreme Court of the United States at thirty-two. Lite tests prove that the strongest wood growing in the United States is the "nutmeg hickory,'' of Arkansas. The weakest is the yellow or West Indian irch. . In a recent libel suit in Detroit, Mich., there was a diversity of opinion as to the verdict, ranging from six cents to (J0, 'Ji) . A compromise was finally reach el - '.mi 1 1,000. Martin Mohlcr, Secretary of the State Agricultural Department, has mvle his 'in il estimate of the amount of wheat raised in Kansas in 1801, and places thc iunount at 58,970,000 bushels. Seals wiien basking place one of their number on guard to give the alarm ia tMi: of danger. The signal is a quic!c clap of the tijppcr3 on a rock. Iiabbits signal with their fore paws and have regular signals and calls. Tin- Chinese make what is called "Chi-wali-hi," or grass cloth, from the fibre of the common nettle. It is said to make a plcndid cloth for tents, awnings, etc. When made into belting for machinery t is said to have twice the strength of leather. Colors have been made to produce sounds by being passed through a prism, i Urieu acid red lights produced the loiid-;j-t noises and yellow the faintest. '-How loud the noises were is not stated, but doubtless they were distiuc'y audible to people who can "hear the corn grow." WalterS. Campbell, of Chicago, 111., net his sister Alice at the geueral deliv-;r3- window in the In liauarolh (In I.) p-jstollicc the other day for the first time in twelve yers. The family lived eakuk, Iowa, but Walter, at sixteen years of age, ran away, and had heard jothing of hi? old ho no until this moot ing. In the language of the million? of 0hi:i i an 1 Jap v tacr.? i? "listeria that" ro: i s. ni ls with our Co J. Every Undent of missions knows well the abiding diiliculty in Chim over the qujs 'i m of a term tor G.i l. Both the na :ive Christians and the foreign mission aries are divided a no lg themselves over this perplexing question. The oldet rose bush in the world is at llildersheim, in Hanover, Germany. It was planted more than one thousand years ago by Charle nagne in commem oration of a visit made to him by the ambassador of the Caliph Ilaroun al UachiJ. The bush is now twenty-three feet hi ih and covers thirty-two feet of the wall. The stem is only two inches in diameter. Is Snow a Fertilizers The query is snow a fertilizer? is often asked; Tuei e cannot be a better reply, perhaps, than this one by the Country Cientlcmau : It wa? common many .years ago to give much credit to sr as the "fanner's fertilizer," but later in vestigation proves it as of very slight value at best. The amount of nitrogen which is absorbed ami bi ought down in rain and snow in one whole year is only . - about one sixth part of the amount re quired tor the growth of crops, and it is t'lereioie quite insufficient to feed a growing crop, even if it remained long enough in the soil to prove in any degree effective. But the snow cau secure only a small portion of the yearly supply, and therefore it is safe to make no account vt the snow as a manure. To go a little more into detail, tha "results of careful examinations by emi i neut scientific men show that the .total -i amount of ammonia brought down in a whole j-ear in the rain, dew ind snow is j about eight pounds to 3n acre of surface, varying, somewhat with seasons and lo calities; while in a crop of tvjrenty-eight bushels of wheat there wenj forty-rive pounds of nitrogen; in two and one-half i tons of meadow hay there were fifty-six J pounds, and in two and one-half tons of clover hay there were 10S pounds. New York World. Steam and Magnet. i - The researches ofStrouhal and Barm i have shown that with loug-coiitinuel - heating in steam, magnets lose from twenty-eight to sixty -seven per cent, of i their power. If, after this, the magnet are remagnetized and again exposed t3 the' action of steam, only a very slight loss'of magnetic power is found to taka place. Repeated steaming and magnet izing are therefore recommended for se curing magnetism ia hard steet. Tren ton (,N. J.) American, ' . GENERAL STATE NEWS. Late Happenings of Importance By ' Mail and Wire. The Gist of Three States' Doings, Carefully Prepared For Our Busy Readers. VIRGINIA. A big Masonic Fair is to be held in the Masonic Temple, Richmond, in May. A series, of inter-college games have been arranged by the University Athletic A6sociaciatiqn. President Harrison and Mrs. McKee and her children are at Virginia Beach. The Do-Drop-In Club is the name of a new Democratic organization in Rich mond. A colored man while out hunting near City Point found the skeleton of a white man. A bili was passed in the Legislature to, provide for the enumeration of towns claiming 5,000 inhabitants with a view of becoming cities. Paramore's Isb near Onancook, has Ijeen recently p ised by a company of Philadelphia ca, , ists, who will iBoon erect there a magaiticent club house and cottages. . Capital stock, $600,000. Chester Roach, who was born in the Alleghany county almshouse seventy-five years ago, and who tramped with his pa rents through the country for j'ears, died in Minnesota last week and left art estate of $400,000. He made his first money as tramp linker, and invested his earnings iu Minneapolis real estate. NOBTH CAROLINA. Cottonwood is a new postoffice in Mecklenburg county. The Governor's Guard has increased in strength to sixty men Recruiting is go ing oil all over the State. Newberne's tih and oyster fair passed off with great eclat. The Roanoke bottom lauds near Wel dou will grow" rice this ' year instead of cotton. S. L. Yount, ex-frhcriff of Catawba county, assigned at Hickory. Liabili ties, 1 1,000. W. H. Williams is the assignee. A Northern lady has , made a handsome donation for a school for colored youths near Winston. - John ShuUz, of Salem, has presented Secretary Rusk with a cane nude of na tive apple wood. Most of the stock for the new "Welden bank has b en subscribed. The total disbursements for Winston for 18D2 were $153?844.2G. The Directors of the Piedmont Nation al Bank, -of Greensboro, have elected Col. J. M. Winstead (cashier) president, to succeed the lamented Gen. A.'M. Scales. Some Wcldon youngsters sent up a kite at night with a lantern attached t the tail of it, and many thought it a star which had lost its way and was seeking the earth. A little nervousness was the result. Others thought it a sign from Heaven. The Seaboard Air Line gets tho Oxford Coast Line Railway. This line is to ex tend from Oxford to Rocky Mount or Nashville. It was first thought that the Atlantic Coast Line would operate the road. The owners will grade it and put the rails dowuandthe Seaboard Air Line will put on the rolling stock and run it for ten years. The road will run through a tine bit of country. SOUTH CAROLINA. The ladies of Charleston arc giviDg 'Russian feas"' for the relief of the starv ing peasauts of Russia. Adjutant and Inspector General Far Icy i ill at Charleston. Truck gardeners of St. John's Island art; shipping asparagus North. A Jeff Davis monument fund is being raised at Camden. A Keel y Institute, for the cure of drunkenness has been opened at Colum bia. The Bi chloride of Gold treatment is used. Senator Irby writes: "The 'political s tuation' in South Caroliua is not now serious, notwithstanding that it might have appeared so a month ago, for the conservative people of the Siate are al ways to be relied upon to do the right thing at the light time." Gen. Juo. C. Anderson, postmaster at Spartanburg uuder Cleveland, died at his home there last week. Tlve fifteenth annual Convention of the South Carolina Young Men's Christian Association will meet in Spartanburg on April 21, and continue in session for three days. Among the prominent Christian woikers who have promised to take part in the Convention me: Gov. W. J. Northcu, of Georgia;the Rev. Dr. R. J. McBryde, of Lexington, Ya. ; L. A. Coulter, of North Carolina; International Secretaries II. P. Anderson and F. S. Brockman, and others. The opeuing address will be delivered by Dr. James II. Carlisle. r Smallest Railroad i a tho World. The smallest railway in the world is probably that from Ravenglass to Boot, ia Cumbeiland, England. The one in question is like a large tor. The gaue is three feet, the engine an absurd little thing and the carriages like miniature cages. As to the stations,thex resemble double bathing boxes - more than any thing else. The railway officials are easily summed up. The engine driver is jilso. stoker, guard, ticket collector, ticket distributor and porter. Being late for the train is not a serious dis aster, since anyone of the most ordinary activity can run after and overtake it, the railway official being the most obliging of, jnprtals, who will stop and pick up passengers anywhere. It is not ad visable, of course, to be in a hurry when using this line, and it ia hardly surprising - to find that, in spite of the smallness of the staff, it fails to pay. A horse and trap could give the train a loDg start and beat) jt easily. Picayune. A NEW ROAD TO BE BUILT. One That Will Give North Carolina Another Outlet, and Forrm a Strong1 Competing Line. Washington, D. C C. F. Z. Cara cristi, the manager of the Petersburg & Chesterfield Railroad, has been actively engaged in listing capital in the com pany's project in this city, in Philadel phia and in New York. He reports that a party of capitalists, with the chief en gineer of the road, Francis R. Fava, and the head of the "contracting firm, "The Woodbridge & Turner Engineering Company," of New York, will go over the route in a few days, and constructing operations will beijin as soon as the con tracts are closed. Mr. Caracristi states that the proposed road is to traverse a belt of country very rich in mineral resources, especially gran ite, coal and bog-iron, and also that the timber is all of the finest in Virginia. The road vill connect the Atlantic and Danville, Norfolk and Western, and Powhatan and Farmvillc roads, with Richmond and the North, and if direct connection can be secured with the Rich mond and Chesapeake road a route can be established between North Carolina, Petersburg, Manchester. Richmond and Baltimore, which will be considerably shorter than any that now exists. This will also, if operated in connection with the Richmond and Chesapeake, give an outlet to Richmoud and Southern freight at a convenient point on Chesapeake Bay. Mr. Caracristi has appointed Fran cis R. Fava, consulting engineer of the city, to be the consu'ting engineer of the company, and directed him to prepare at once the reports and plans necessary tor the construction of the road. Stato Conventions. The following State Conventions have been called: Al bama, Dem Florida, Dem Illinois, Dem Illinois, Hep Indian i, Rp lnliuia, Daui Kentucky, Kep Massachusetts, Rep Maine, Proh'b TIaryland, Frohib M' line.--1, Dem NebiMt-k. rlep Noith Dakota, Dem New Yoi k. nuti Hill Nvw York, Rep Rhode Island, JVn B. C, Reform Rep South Dakota, Rep Sou. li Dakota, Uem Tom lessee, Rep Wa t Virginia. R-p Wist Virginia. Re,i Montgomery, June 8. Tan) a, June 1. Kpriogfleld, April 27. Sprinfleld, My 4. Indianapolis, March 10. Indianapolis. April 21. Liuisvilie, Marcp 10. Boston, April 2 . Bangor, May 0 Baltimore March 8. St. Paul, March 31. Kearney, April 27. Giand Forks, March 4. Syracuse, May 31. Albany, May 4. Providence, March 2. Columbia. Aprii 12. Chamberlain, March 23 Chamberlain, May 2. Nashvil o, May 4, Austin, March 8. Martinaburg, May.l. Huntington, A.ug. 3. A New Southern Railroad Enterprise. A new Southern railroad enterprise is contemplated in the corporation of the Norfolk, Wilmington and Charleston railroad company, with a capital of $10 000,000, to build a line from Norfolk, Ya , to Charleston S. C, with a branch to Columbia, S. C. It is said that the new road will shorten the railroad dis tance between the east and south ern points nearly 100 miles. The direc tors are Ex-Governor Thomas J. Jarvis, of North Carolina; Duncau Harris, of New York; J. C. McNaughton, of Phila delphia; Colonel Henry YouDg and Gen eral Thomas A. Haquimin, of Charles ton ; Captain Thomas Pinckner, of Rich moud; A. A. Gaddis, of New Jersey; Chambers II. McKibbin, of Washington, and A. C. Haskell, of Columbia. The officers are : John C. McNaughton, pres ident; R. Duncan Harris, treasurer; Car roll Forstev, secretary; C. II. McKibbin, general manager. Southern Society Presidency. New York. City. The annual election of the Southern Society will take place in a few days,and it promises to be one of the most spirited contests ever held in the club. Captain Hugh R Garden has been the president of the society for two years. Last year a number of the friends of Dr. James H. Parker proposed to nom inate him, but he was retired after Cap tain Garden's friends, who claimed to speak for him, promised that if Dr. Parker's name was withdrawn he would get a clear field this year. Dr. Parker was nominated a few weeks ago and Captain Garden was also renominated. It is believed that Captain 3arden will adhere to the agreement and withdraw his name. Dr. Parker, w ho will proba bly be elected, is president of the United States National Bank, commander f the Confederate Camp and president of the New York Club. He was formerly pres ident of the Cotton Exchange and vice president of the National Park Bank. The Banana's Good Points. The banana i3 only now beginning to be appreciated, aui will be much better liked when people learn to cook this de licious fruit and prepare it for food as it is used in countries where the plant grows. In tho South, in Mexico and in the West Indies the banana is friel like the sweet potato, bakel like the Irish potato, is made into pies, is mashed up into a paste and dried", is preserved, aud in any and every way is good. There is more nourishment in the banana than in the potato. The same land that vrill grow 1000 pounds of potatoes has been proven by actual experiment capable of growing 44,000 pouaJs of bananas. Even now this fruit is cheap, ' but tea years lrom now banana3 will b3 uai versally eaten in th-5 Unitect States and will furnish a delicious substitute on the family table for the potato. St. Lou'u Globe-DemocTat. Georgia's New Bishop. Atlanta, Ga., Special. In St. Luke's Cathedral, Wednesday, Dr. C. Kinloch Nelson, formerly rector of the Church of. the Nativity, Bethlehem, Pa., was consecrated Bishop of Georgia with impressive ceremonies. The sermon was preached by Bishop Hulisoo, of Pennsylvania, (Bishop Quio tard, of Tennesee, presiding) who took for his text, "Launch out into the deep." At night a brilliant assemblage attended the reception given by Gov. Northen to Bishop Nelson and the visiting prelates. Bishop Nelson will make Atlanta hlr headquarters. ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. The St. Louis Convention fliusiastic One. an En A Platform, With Many Strong Fea tures, and Denouncing Both Old Parties, Adopted. St. Lodis, Mo: The great Alliance and Labor Congress passed off with won derful enthusiasm. The.second morning Ben Terrell of Texas, Paul Vandevort of Nebraska, and Thomas Wadsworth.of Indiana, had spoken appealiugly for non sectioua'.ism, the old veterans all over the hall clasp-d hands and cheered for the restored Union. Wrhen the enthusi asm had subsided Delegate Branch, of Georgia, cast a fire-brand into the gath ering in the shape of a resolution protest ing against the condition of the com mon people of this country, and holding the Republican and Democratic psrtics responsible for the conditions. There was a spirited debate, but the resolution was adopted by a vote of 410 to 139. Later it was declared to have been irreg ularly proposed and was ordered strick en from the minutes until after the report of the committee on platform was heard. Then there was a tremendous row over the eligibility of a colored delegate from Georga, which was quieted only the en trance of the conuiittee on platform, which reported as follows: "This, the first great labor conference of the United States and of the world, representing all divisions of urban and rural organizations and industry, assem bled in national congress, invoking upon its action the blessing and protection of Almighty God, puts forth to and for the producers of the nation this declaration of unison and independence. "The conditions which surround us best justify our co-oporation. We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people arc demoralized. Many of the States arc compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places, in order to prevent universal intimidation or bribery. The newspapers arc subsidized or muz zled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, our homes covered with mort gages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organization for self protection, imported pauperized labor beats down their wages; a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down and they are rapidly degenerating to European conditions. The fruits of the .toils of millions are boldy used to build up colossal fortunes unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the great classes pau pers and millionaires. The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bond-holders; -silver, which has been accepted as coin since tho day-dawn of history has been demoralized to en large the purchasing power of gold by decreasing the value of all forms of prop erty as well f.s humau labor, and the sup ply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise and enslave iudustry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized on two continents and is taking possession"of the world. If not met and overthrown at once, it forebodes terrible social con vulsions, the destruction of civilization or the establishment of an absolute des potism. "In this crisis of human affairs, the in telligent working people and producers of the United Spates, have come together in the name of peace, order and society, to defend liberty, prosperity and justice. We declare our union and independence. We assert our purpose to vote with that organization who represents our princi ples. "We charge that the controlling influ ences dominating the old political parties, have allowed the existing dreadful con ditions to develop without serious effort to restrain or prevent them. Neither do they now intend to accomplish reform. They have agreed together to iguore, in the coming campaign, every issue but one. They propose to drown the out cries of a plundered people with the up roar of a sham batile over the tariff; so that corporations, national bauks, rings, trusts, 'watered stocks,' the demonetiza tion if silver and the oppressions of usury may be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our home and children upon the altar of maramou, to .destroy the hopes of the multitude in order to sccme cor ruption funds from the great lords of plunder. "We assert that a political Organiza tion, representing the princip'cs herein stated, is necessary t redress the griev ances of which we complain. Assembled on the acniversary of ihe birth of the il lustrious man who led the fiist great re volt on this continent against oppression, filled with stntimeht which actuated that grand generation, we seek to restore the government of the republic to the hands of the plain people, with vh m it origi nated. Our door stands open to! all points of the compass. We ask al! hon est men to join with und help us "In order to restrain the extortions of aggregated cjpital, to drive the mooey chaugers out of the temple, to form a Serfect union and establish justice, injure omestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessmgs of liber ty for ourselves and o:ir posterity, we do ordain and establish the following plat form of principles: "First. We demand a national cur rency, safe, sound and flexible, Issued by the general government, only full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking cor porations; a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution, direct to the peo ple, and not to exceed 20 per cent., to be provided as set forth in the sub Treasury plan of the Farmers Alliance, or some better system, also by payment in discharge of its obligation for public improvements. - ' "We demand tho free and unlimited coinage of silver. . "We demand tha( tha circulating me dium bejner eased to not less thin $50 per capita. We "demand a graduated income tar. We believe that the money of the coun try should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and we demand that all State and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honeil ly administered. "We demand that postal savings bank be established by the government for the safe deposit of the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange. "The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of all the people and should not be m onopoliz ed for special purposes, while alien own ership of land should. All lands now held by railroad and other corporations in excess of their natural needs.-and all lands now owned by aliens should be re claimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. s "Transportation being a means of ei chaoge and a public necessity, the gov ernment shoald own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph and telephones, like the postoffice systcri, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be own ed and operated by the government in the interest of the people. "We demand that the government is .ue legal tender notes and pay the Union old icrs the difference between the price of the depreciated money in which he was paid in go'd. "Resolved, That we hail this confer-, rnce as the consummation of a perfect union of hearts and hands of all the sec tions of our common country. The men who wore tho grey and the men who wore the blue are here to extinguish the last smouldering fires of civil war in the tears of joy of a united -and happy peo ple, and we agree to- carry the stars and stripes forward forever to the highest point of national greatness." The convention then took a recess un til 2 p. m. On the afternoon session be ng called to order, Miss Frances Wii lard submitted her minority report. The drst plank declared in favor of, universal suffrage without distinction of sex; the second, that the liquor traffic was the en cmy of reform, the chief cause of cor ruption in politics, and that as the States had full authority to legislate regarding this traffic it was the duty of the govern ment to respect the action of those States that had voted the liquor traffic, and that the government should collect no liquor revenue within those States. The majority report was adopted. Hotv Witches Were Convicted. "One of the theories of the age was that the devil set his mark upon each of his servants that . witches were all marked, ". says Winfield 3. Nevins in the New England Magazine. "A jury of the sex of the accused was appointed to examine the body for such marks. Ifc often happened that some excresence of flesh common to old people, or one ex plainable by natural causes, was found. One such was found on the body of Goody Nurse, and reported to the court, all but one of the jury agreeing to the report. Rebecca Preston and Mary Tarbell knew ' that the mark was from natural causes. .. The prisoner stated to the court that the dissenting wooian of the jury of examination was one of the most ancient, skilful and prudent, and further declared, 'I there rendered' a sufficient known reason, of.the' moving cause thereof.' She asked for the ap pointment of another jiiiy.to inquirelnto the case - and examine the marks found on her person. The jury of trials re turned a verdict of not guilty. There upon all the accusers in court cripi out' with renewed vigor and were' taken in the most violent tits, rolling and turn-' bling about,creating a scene of the wild est confusion. The judges told tho jurymen that they had not carefully con sidered one expression of the prisDner, namely, that when one Hobbs, a con fessing witch, was brought in as evidence against her she said : What, do you bring her? She is one ot U3.' The jury retired for further consultation. Even then they, could not agree upon a verdict of guilty. They returned to the court-room and desired that the accused explain the rennrk. She made no re sponse, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty." Roots In Drains. Recently, in-the' yard of a public school in Philadelphia, a drain from tha out-buildings was found to bo choked, and on examination a little root of a maple tree had been found 'to -penetrate a very( small pore in the terra cotta pipe; yet so rapidly did theso roots increase, after they found there was 'plenty of foud at command in the drain, that-althouga the pipe was eight itjehes ia diameter,several buckctfuU of small fibrous roats were taken " oat, 'and 'which had completely choked all circulation through the drain. It was a wonderful ..example of .the in crease of roots,under circumstances favor able through the abundance of food. It is said that in this case no trouble is antic ipated ia futuro years, as it is believe I that a bucketful or two of salt brine, passed IhroughTthe drain once or twice a year, will effectually scorch o2 any fibres that may attempt thdsame frolic in future. Where, however, -this remedy cannot be applied, It will be a caution not to have drains in the vicinity of, th roots of Irees-Meehaa's Monthly." Strike in New Orleans. New Orleans, La. The strike of the longshoremen is on, and 2,000 are out of work. x The demand is an hour's pay for a fractional parts of an hour. The ships agents have taken a decided stand by employing stevedores, giving them the time needed to secure new hands for un loading vessels. A number of. new la- borers have been obtained and it is pro-" po:ed to put them to work. Trouble with longshoremen is anticipated and the mayor ha3 been asked for protection. 31. Serullaz, .who wenV two years a?o In search of the icosandra guttapercha tree "in Malaysia, has. discovered large forests of these x'reesand has hit upon practical ways of collecting the gu -n. with out desirojiog the ; t'reesj which the pa tivts iaeTitahlyydoij ' J. . 7 HE- LATEST 1NJL.W& Cleveland a Candidate. " Toledo, O. Hon. Frank H. Kurd, who went to Ann Arbor to -have a con ference with Mr. Cleveland, announces authoritatively that the latter is candi date for nomination. Collector for Louisiana. Washikgtok, D. C W. W. Chisx holm was designated to perform the du ties of revenue collector for Louisiana, vice Wimberly, removed. Mr. Chisholm was the deputy collector. Suffocated by Gas, Cihciunati, O. M. Dugan, of Augus ta, Ga., was found dead in bed at the CinciunaUIIouse, having suffocated by escaping gas. Mr. Dugan had been at the hotel two days A North Carolinian Pardoned. WA8HIKOTOW, D. C. The President has granted a pardon at the expiration of 18 months' imprisonment to Josiah Stan di, of North Carolina, sentenced Decem ber 8, 1890, to two years imprisonment for violation of the postal laws. Jay Gould Oft on a Jaunt. New York City. Jay Gould has left the city for an extended tour over his railroads in the West and South. He in intends being in St. Louis March' 18th, when the'annnal meetings of the Missou ri Pacific and St. Louia, Iron Mountain and Southern Railways are held. Gens. Morgan's and Green's Monu- ments. : Washington. D. C. House. Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, from the Com mittee on Library, reported the bills for erection of monuments to General Daniel Morgan at Winchester,' Va., and Nathan iel Greene at Guilford. Courthouse. N.C Refsrred to the Committee of the Whole.. 'Killed Four Persons.. . .. A special from Smithville, I. C , says: The jury in the case against Waitman Thompson -for the- murder of one W. W. Pearsall, wife and two .children and burning their their house over their dead bodies on the 23d of December, returned a verdict of guilty, and requested that his sentence be imprisonment for life, the judge fulfilling it. Charleston Memorializes Against Free Hilver. Charleston, S. C. The chamber' oi commerce adopted a resolution request ing the Senators and Congressmen from this State to use all their influence in de feating the passage of the bill looking to the free coinage of silver, asserting that the boards of . trade of the country caa only be maintained on a sound currency. A North Carolina Colored Professor in Connecticut. Midoletown, CoNif. A colored man who represented himself to be Prof. C. H. 3IcD6wcll, of the Onslow Literary Institution, Swannsboro, N. C. , was ar rested on the charge of swindling. He collected small sums of money from prominent citizens, but a fraudulently headed list, with Mayor Brigf's name down for $25, led to bis detection. He has collected a large Him of money in the different cities near by. Gave Clevoland a Gourd. Fredericksburg, Va. Colonel Wm.' Rodgers, a jolly and handsome bachelor of Loudoun county, is in the city. Col. Rodgers presented Mr. Cleveland, during his term of office, as President, with a long handled gourd, grown on his place in Loudoun. He did this in conformity with the old custom to present couples with a gourd who had remained child less for more than two years after mar riage Mr. Cleveland still has the gourd, aud baby Ruth delights to play with it in preference to a gold rattle presented by an admiring friend Talmage's Tabernacle Under the Hammer! "" New York. Char!ci T. Willis ob tained a mechanic's lien on Dr. Talmage's tabernacle in Brooklyn, and then brought an action to' foreclose it, and judgement was rendered in his favor for f 52,216 on the 10th of February. The judgment was signed by Judge Pratt, and it will be enforced by the sale of the property by the sheriff at public auction in one parcel. Wills built the tabernacle, which cost $400,000. This judgement is the unpaid balance. The sale is subject to a mortgage of Russell Sage.. - - ' The Brave Pilot Dead. Captain John Sto.d, a Mississippi pilot, died recently inj-New Orleans. His'Iife was distinguished by several acts ot bravery. He was at the' wheel of the steamer. Robert E. Lee when she was burned at Yucatan plantation-in 18B2. On that occasion he saved a score of lives by remaining 'nt the wheel and holding his boat to the bi-'k.- He remained 'on the blazing vessel until the very last mo ment, and only escaped by sliding, down the log chain. Captain Stout was on board the tteamlwat J. W. White wherr she was burned above .Biyou Sara JnJ 18t5. and "jumped overboard to escape the flames. He was picked upr almost lifeless. . ' " - .. ' Zeb's Humor. Washington, D. C -Whde Sen ator Vance -was : makinrr a speech on the Idaho election case, at one. point in bis remarks two prominent senators who were engaged in earnesi rnnTitrift'ion reached it noint in their dts-' cussioa which elicited from one of ihena 1 a most extraordinary so wad a compound between a laush and a vawn.: Pauainz abruptly and gazing ia the direction of the offenders, Mr.. Vance sata: "Jir,. President, I do not yield." The Smuse ment which this diversion created seem ed to break up the interest in the debate and at 4;33 a motion to adjourn was car Tied, v - ' " ' ' CONVENTION IN JULY. They Will . Nominate a People's . Ticket That Was. the. Outcome of the St Louie Conference of Alliance and ' Labor Leaders. ' .'St. Locis, Mo, The delegates to the industrial conference have left, most of them expressing-themselves as satisfied wjth the outcome of . th. gathering, al- . though" the - delegates Jrom Georgia, Louisiana, and other Southern States freely, confessed that if the platform of the Democratic- .National Convention., covered me noancuu piaajcs oi ine pisi form adopted, the new movement would . not cut much of a figure in their respec tive localities. "The Kansas and Minne sotajdelegatesUoo. were inclined to be disgruntled over the decision to hold tho presidential nominating convention on July 4 -and the old politicians that ma nipulated the conference, were soundly berated for their part for making the gathering follow 'those of the two old parties. - - The special committee are considering a place for the national convention, tho claims of St. Louis, Indianapolis, Omaha. Kansas City, Birmingham. Ala , and Mobile, being presented. The principal " contest was between the first three. The committee wanted a guarantee of $50, 000 for "the expenses qf th? affair; but it was not oflcfca. St. Louis offered a dec orated hall free-of charge, and later agreed to throw in . a basd. Omaha could not offer money,, but its represent atives promised to throw the electoral vote of Nebraska to the People's ticket as a reward for the convention. It was claimed that Indianapolis was ready to guarantee the-necessary $50,000 but ntv body was prepared rto . put in black and white. , When the committee adjourned fur diuner no decision had beep reached. The committee on an address to the peo ple, under the"chairmsuship" of Ignatius Donnelly, agreed to call upon the inde pendent votcis of the country to meet within a month in their respective con gressional districts and organize. Tho call includes the platform adopted by. the convention.' Representative Taubcneck, of Illinois, says Omaha is the favorite in tho race. Kansas City has withdrawn in ita favor.. 'The National C?mmittec of the Pco-. pie's party of the Unitc'd " States, acting in. conjunction with the following: C II. Van Wyck of Nebraska; C. W. Macune of Texas, "M. J. Brajieh of Georgia, J. II. II. Powers-of Nebraska, R. R. Humphrey of Texas, L. D Laurent of Louisiana, " Marion Cannon of California, T H. Ma guire of -New York', '. J.'x Williams of Kansas, L. L. Polk of North Carolina, Pierce Hachett of Missouri. M. M. Gar rett of Illinois', John Feitz of Ohio, Mary E. Lease of Kansas, Anna L. Diggs Dis triet of Columbia, Anna Debbs of Terns, A. P. Parkscn of Florida and Benjamin Tcrrill if " Texas finally, decided upon Omaha as the- place for tho 4tli of July r?iinvintinn m NEW CURE F0H DEAFNESS m A Baltimore 'Professor Demonstrates Another Use for the. Phonograph. At 4he.-Southern.. Homoeopathic Medical College, Baltimore, M1., a public demonstra tion was given of the use of the phonograph for the care ot ' deafness,' a discovery made by Dr. H. F. Gary, a professor in the college. Seated at a phonograph, with rubber tubes in their ears, were a' number' of persona of both sexes', and an exposition of the principle of the treatment was given. Jt ia the massage' of those parts' of the ear which transmit sound into -the brain. "The" phonograph pro duces this result by giving continuous and successive vibrations -at' regular intervals. This .it does.with crtai degrees ot intensity and frequency, according to toe exigencies of the case under treatment, r - - -' In bad cases a series of intensified shocks. ' at the rate of one to the second, is produced against the membraneous tympanum, or drum, in cases of not over than five years' standing the vibrations ace given with more frequency and leu intensity. The. noitea or thumps so made are given by mean's' ofdeprenions made with a stylus at regular intervals ia the was surface of the phonographic cylinders. Every degression causes the little trans mitter needle in the instrument to strike the dlAphrSgm connected wnh'-the; phonograph, and to produce' the same distressing Wises which a deafperson continually hears withia his brain. .The intensity. of the noi-a is regulated by the-iray that the depressions are made in the cylinder and their frequency by the number of revolutions per minute given the latter. . ' ' -j All patients who are under treatment for deataesa at the 'college' reported that they are greatly benefitted. . ' A Large Tarpon . The tarpon, or. silver fieh . ia tmdispu fably the glamiestjnbabjtant of the Gulf o! Meaifio. It affoids more eport to ama teur fisherman than aoyotber of the fishes of the sea. The truefollowet-of 'Tal-, ton uses the pole?, reel, Jine. .and. hook to catch it with, and the tarpon is the acme ' of bis ambition. To boat a large specimen after a drag (by the tarpon of a boat) and an exer cise of exquisite skill '(by tho "fisherman" with his tackle) from a contest of fes -hour or,so, is a. spell of fcplendid Xr ; citement. It .is a, question of "I win ami you lose" fo the end. At. the "Cot-, tagc- by the Sea," PasCJigoula,' MissMbsi jusi been received' s stuued specimen of . this celebrated fish, which measures ex - actly six feet' in length, and when caught weighed 202 poutlds. It handsomely ' mounted and tnost artistically preserved. This fish when hooked behaved like an astonished gentlemen or .an. assaulted cowboy; it made "fight" ibsjaater, measUT ing its gleaming length "abvvV thV water in a jump of fully forty feer;-.cJear - oyer the craft in which the readyr -conqueror stood. The '''anchor of. thet skiff was -hauled, in by an assistant and tnc"boat was thereby et adriltrwhile the wheel was played with dexterous accuracy by "tho'cool and accomplished manipulator with.a-Hvind" back and "a let go. "until-' exhaustion iahe endeavor -of" "the tar-' pon to escape ma3e.it a .'.prize- 6 the proud fisbefman. Nev Qrhaas New; Delta, c. ' '" . London, England, is to haxe an Inter j- si-- i " ' it . ) r-