North Carolina Newspapers

;Thev GEpTRit 'TlMEB, G. K. GE4THAM, Editor Bender Unto Caesar thef Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. $1.00 Per Annum, in Ad vane V . " M . - I i - - - VOL. II. THEN. C LEJHJSLATUKE. What liiey are uoug m the General Assembly. Bills Upon Bills All; Intended for thf Good of North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C skndday. The fol lowing bill were introduced in the Sen ate: to incorporate the Virginia and North Carolina Riilroad Company. The hill to prevent the sptead of contagious diseases (makes it a misdemeanor to ex r . fee personsafflicted -with contagious dis eases) came up. Thej bill was referred to the committee on health.; Tbe Senate w ent into executive seksioa at 12:50. House: A res:dutiu" was introduced ' rising a committee ol five to consider the matter of making J an appropriation for a monument at Raleigh to the memory nf the North Caro'.in! Confederate sol ders. Bills introduced : To protect real estate owners against nquatttrs. To pro vide ?i uniform systemjof txt books in the public schooIs,thefce 1o be piepared y the Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, president of the Univeisity and presidents of college'Jand then to. be ubmuted to the SUtej Board of Educa tion for approval th? letter bord to have .-ferrotype plat s prepared and publish the b.okP,the State tojpay for the print ing. To allow cleiks j.o order exmina tia of a party tefore jtrial with n less rhn five days; to amriid the law regard ing corporations so that an sffidavit be inaJe that the capital fetock is duly sub s ribed; to give landldrds a lien for rent flu-j by tenants: to exempt libraries from taxation; to provide fra chief in psctor of liquors for the State; to establish an astrological observatory on the Oc conee:he mountainsfat Hillsboro. (Lau 'li ter as the bill was referred to the com mittee on fish and vfiheries; to incor porat-j the North Carolina Monumtntal Association, to erecj a monument at Rdtigh to tbe numory of the Confed erate dead; to frrca fudges of elections and ie.;istrais to jbe sworn before entering on the duties of their office on election day; Mr. Kitchen, by consent, introduced a bill in regard to taxing solvent credits. It is to compel persons and corpdiations to list their bonds, notes, choses' in ac tions antl other evidences of indebted ness, under penalty of forfeiture of the same. A bill, introduced by Mr. Spruill, passed it second aijd third reading, which is of great importance. It amends the act cf 1891 crejatirg the railroad commission by inserting the following: 'The said commissioners shall determine the value of railroad stock, as defined in section 45, an i the valui of the rolling stock, asccrt.tiniog such value from the earnings as compared with the operat ing expenses and taking into considera tion the value of the franchise as well as all ether conditions proper to be consid e ed in arriving Vt trie true value of the propeity r-s in trie ca'-e of the private pioperiy, ana tue jagsrr,'at3 value as thus det rn ined." jl'he bill also adds to the lit of propeitr authorized for as sessment by t;ierailrpad commission the following: ''The proj erty of all canal end 6te imbo.it companies shall be assess ed lor taxation aj jibovc provided for railroads." Mr. Sfruill, who is one of the -Tiblf-st sp'akeisl in the House, ex plained the bill in a pcid manner, and showed the absurdity of the old method of taxing railroads, by which the greater the value of the road-bed the less tne tax. I Haleigh, 2i. C fe3rd day. In the Senate bills were intfodu e 1 for the com pletion of the colored Agricultural and Mechanical College; jto require managers :f all penal and chaiitabl institutions report annually thfe names and salaries -f all offioe rs conuedted therewith. A -evolution was u.trjelirced providing for he appointment o$ commissioners to prepare a plan for a j'monumeut in Nash square, Raltigh, to he statesmen, sol diers and sailors of tte Confederacy from North Carolina, the Commissioners to re port to the next Legislature. A resol ution of respect to the memory of the late Associate Justice Limr was adopt -?d by a rising vote. Bills pissed final reading to incorpoia' e the Atlantic and Ohio Radre ad ; to alkjw cleiks of Criminal Courts to probat j deeds; to amend The Code regaiding Uboj liens, by requiring , in iteraiz.d sttemefct relative to the ' labor, the liens to bej filed in six months; . to provide a stock law for New Hanover; to provide for instillation of S:afe offi cers on the third Monday after the first Monday in January; o allow the Wil mington Light Infantry to issue bonds; to require clerks of cptirt to turn over to the school fund witness' and jurors' fees not called for in 3 years; to allow chattel mortgages for? any amount in stead of, fis at present, $300; to take from justices of the rjeace jurisdiction in rvsei of corrjirrg cpscealed weapons. The latter bill caused prolonged debate. The vote on it was ajes 33, noes 16 Very few bills wer intra luced ia the House: to allow, tb sheriffs of Rock ingham, Guilford, ! Caswell, Orange, Durham, Person, Qranville, Vance, Forsjth, Stokes, Yadkin, Surry, Bun combe, Madison, McDowell, Rowan and Davie counties until lay 1 to settle with the State treasurer; tb provide that in all cases where a person owiog taxes 19 tbout to remove from! the State or i3 de posing of his property with the intention 9f avoiding the patment of taxes or ther liabilities, thd sheriff may levy npon the personal property of such per !on at any time to satisfy taxes in his hands for collection ; ind the first Mon day in August is fixed as the time for the sale of lands for tiax arrears; to dis courage lynching, by making it the duty ef county commissioters to notify the Sovernor when a lynching occurs, so he 5an order a court of Oyer and Terminer 'for the 6aid county ini30 days; and if a prisoner is convicted he shall I e executed m 30 days; to extendjfor 12 months the time for redeeming lahd sold for taxes: to make an annual appropriation of $ 10, 100 for the Agricultural and Mechanical College, and $4,250 ai year for '93 and "94 and giving the cole0e 100 acres of land, of the "Camp Mangum" tract; to require tax listers to lht eolteat credits, loubtful credits and insolvent credits, ind to give the coutty commissioners power to inquire intojthe character and ralue of the last two yarned ; to make it anlawful for any railway tD employ in I chis State any telegraph operator to re-1 :eive and transmit dispatches of tratus irho is under 18 jears!of age, and who I has net had at least ten years' experienc as a telegraph operator, and who has not passed a thorough examination before two expert telegraphers, designated by the railway commissioners and received a certificate therefrom. There was quite a debate on a bill to brohibit the sale or manufacture of liquor in three miles of Cherokee county. The territory is a lit tle over two miles from the line of Ten nessee and Georgia. The situstion was a special one, and nnder the circumstan ces the House passed the bill. The res olution was adopted to purchase a $12.50 p'aster bust of Hon. Jefferson Davis for the State library ; one requesting Sena tors and Representative in Congre?a to use their influence for the establishment of a national park in western North Caro lina; to establish an "arbor day" a a day in the autumn to be set apart by the Governor to be observed by the people of the State in the planting of trees, shrub3 and vines in the promotion of forest growth and culture in the adorn nient of public and private grounds, place and ways, etc., the public school to hold appropriate exercises. Raleigh, N. C 24th day. Senat? bills introduced : To legalize the mar riage of Rev. David George and Mary Ann George, of Yadkin cc unty ; to ex empt J. M. Guyther, a wounded ex-Con-fedfrate soldier, from taxation as a ped dler in any county of the State passed its third reading. The bill to prevent the de truction of certain game birds (it pro hibits the shooting or trapping of par t idgej, doves, etc., from the passage of the bill until November 1, 1893.) Sena tor Leach offered the bill in view of the great destruction of birds by the. late very severe weather. The bill was amended to apply only to Halifax, Vance, Warren, Chatham and Robeson, and, as amended, passed its third reading. House: To make 10 hours a day'e labor fer persons under 15 years of age employed in factories; persons oxer that age can work by the hour over 10 hours; to impose taxes upon all foreign corpora tions, or joint stock companies doing business in this State ; to secure the right of trial by jury of damage caseswbere rail roads occupy lands in cities or towns; to incorporate the People's Bank of Kins t,n; to abolish the tax on marriage licenses; to give the railroad commis sioners control of the telephone com panies doing business in this State. The bill to incorporate the Carthage & West ern Railroad came up with a favorable report, and pass :d. Ex-Governor Holt was a prominent visitor to the House, and occupied a seat y Mr. Holt, of Ala mance. Bills passed incorporating the Winston-Salem and Charleston Railroad, allowing it 300 convicts, to be paid at tha r-teof $125 a year, quarterly in advance and to amend tbe charter of the Roa Doke, Norfolk & Baltimore Steamship Company, whose boats will ply in Pam lico and Albemarle Sounds sad thq Cb.es peake Bay; to amend th; charter of the Moore County Railroad, giving it power to extend its line and build branches, and to consolidate with the !o)re County Forwarding Company i to incoiporaie the Burlington & South western Riilroad, from the North Carolina Reilroad to the Cape Ftar and Yadkin Valley Railroad. The committee on judiciary reported favorably the Senate bill repealing the o'd act for "processioning" lands, and enacting a new law on that iubject. Mr. Harris, by consent, introduced a bill making the destruction of forest trees a misdemeanor. The bill to enable land owners to establish the boundaries thereof passed final reading; as did the one to regulate the height of fences in Bladen county ; the one to provide a water supply for public buildings; the one to regulate the bui'dicg of wharves, and the one re quiring county superintendents to en quire into and report the number ef deal mutes. The bill giving to justices of the peace jurisdiction in eases of cruelty to animals was tabled ; as was also the one prohibiting county commissioners and magistrates holding office more that two terms. Bills passed final reading allowing Rutherford county to levy taxei to build a jail. The bill to amend the school law so as to make the county su perintendent ex-officio chairman of tha board of educatiou and the bill to make the expectoration of tobacco on church floors a misdemeanor went to the table, though an effort was made tOSecure the passage of the latter measure. Raleigh, N. C. 25th day. In th? Senate the following bills were introduc ed: For the erection of the county of Scotland ; to allow corporations to be come sureties; to establish a naval ' battalion of the State Guard. The Mil to allow the commissioners and justices of Rutherford to purchase a farm for paupers passed its third reading. The bill to provide stenographers for the several courts of the State; it provid s that the stenographers shall receive $1, 000 per annum for Superior Courts, and $500 for Criminal Courts. They shall ba appointed by the judge and can be removed for cause. Under a call forth: previous question the bill faiiei to pa?s its second reading ayes 5, noes -37. The bill to establish a motto for the State of North 'Carolina, "Esse quam videri," passed its third reading. The bill to provide a seal for the register of deeds passed its eecond reading. House : A Bill was introduced tc piovide that the license taxes on bar rooms, billiard alleys, etc., at resorti shall be collected only for the time they are kept open for the use of visitors. Tbe bill to abolish the Bureau of Labor Statistics came up and was the theme ol discussion for an hour or more. It pas sed ayes 56, noes 34. The following important bills passed third reading . To incorporate the Winston-Salem & Charleston Railroad; to protect birds in Halifax and Warren; to incorporate the Burlington & Ssuth Western Railroai; to allow Rutherford county to levy 8 special tax to build a jail; to give par ties desirous of obtaining service oJ summons the right . to make the sitae by p .l.-lication, in spite of chapter 120, Acts if 1890; to provide for garnishing her sons non-resii ents either as provided bj chapter 130, Acts 1892, or sections 126 or 359 of The Code. Raleioh, N. C 26th day. Th? fol . lowing bills were introduced in the 8enate: To detach a ceitain piece, ot land in Stokes couny and award it tc Forsyth; a resolution cf request to oui tf-natrtrs andRemesentatiTesin Corsresi to votj for thejfficaraiua Canal P48sec DUNN, unanimously; the bill to Tallow licensed druargists of Marshall, Madison county, to tell liquor on prescription of phytic ians, passed third reading; the bill tc provide for furnishing and completion of the executive mansion, (it provide: fir the appropriation , ef $2,500 foi furniture and $1,500 for completion ol the mansion.) passed Its third reading la the House bills were introduced To protect the consumers of; illuminating oils and to provide for the inspectior and sale of the same, allowing no oils tc be sold under a fire test of 120 degrees to amend the charter of the Atlanta, A8heville & Baltimore Railroad; to pro tect baggage of travelers by common conveyance; to allow Buncombe to fund its county debt. Bills passed third read ing incorporating the town of Hampton, Rutherford county ; to forbid bodies ol men known as "detectives,' from going armed; to amend The Code in regard tc bigamy ; to appropriate $500 annually tc the Guilford Battle Ground Association. The bill to amend The Code in regard to liens was tabled, as was one amend ing it in regard to chattel mortgages. A bill also passed making it unnecessary for the privy examination of a wife to be at the same time as the execution of t deed by her husband. An important bill passed, making amendment in the land taw. It is to allow the trial of the issue of. fraud in the conveying or en cumbering of lands not exceeding in value the homestead before the latter it determined . It allows the trial of this issue of fraud and allows no sale until the homestead is determined. The bill to make three years' absence from the State a cause for absolute divorce passed by a unanimous vote. Mr. Vance's sheep husbandry or "dog law" bill came up. Just as soon as the word "dog" was read the House began to laugh. The bill pro vides for a tax of $1 on each dog and re quires the latter to be listed as other property ; the tax to go to the school fund. The committee on agriculture made a repoit in favor of the bill. The bill was finally re-commU'ed to the com mittee on agriculture. Raleigh, N. C. 27th day. Senate: The following bills were introduced : To incorporate the Bank of Laurinburg ; to prevent note-shaving ; to compromise and settle the bonds issued by the State for the Chatham Railroad. The resolution calling upon the bursar of the University of North Carolina to furnish financial and ether statements relating to the Uni versity for the pa9t ten years, and bien nially hereafter, passed its third reading. Bill relating to ceitain rignts of married women ; the bill was widely discussed. Senator McDowell in the course of his remarks said that he never could recon cile the matter of women not voting. It was certainly coming. (The bill extends the time for women who now have the right to bring suit to the 1st of March, 1894.) Senator Jones favored the bill -the present law was adopted when wo men were little more than slaves. Let us put women where they belong on a plane of justice. The bill failed to pass its second reading. The bill to incorporate the Citizens' Savings Bank at Wilming ton passed final reading. House: Bills were introduced to pre vent the organization of secret, oatn bound political organization, ("Gideons' Band" being named as among these) making membsrship, etc., in such a fel ony, punishable by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 and imprison ment for not less than one year nor more than five year?, such person to be forever after ineligible to office; to make it un unlawful to abduct children under 18 years of age, instead of 14 as heretofore; to amend tne pension acis vj iu&&iu them anplv to cases where the 6oldier died from wounds in 12 months after Lee's surrender, April 9, 1865; to require persons putting up barbed wire fencep alongside a highway to put up a plank or continuous rail on the top thereof. The bill to forbid any person calling him self a detective to carry concealed weap ons oassed third reading by a unanimous vote. A bill to require the State'Board of Education to prepare and publish uni form text books also came up with an unfavorable report and was tabled; Bills were tabled exempting private libraries from taxation; amending chapter 15 of The Cede regarding corporations; pro viding for a State inspector of liquors The bill forbidding the employment of children under 15 years for over 1C hours a day in factories was tabled without debate. The bill to protect landlords by constituting unpaid rent a lien on household enects, etc. also tabled. was IT WAS MISCARRIED. A Richmond Registered Letter Found m a Big Fish. The St. Louis Republican is responsi ble for the following: "The largest catfish ever captured or the Mississippi was caught about three vears ago, two miles from Cairo, by s colored fisherman," said John G. Harvey, of Murphysboro, 111., at the Linden jes terday. "He was a monster, sure enough and more resembled a while than a cat fish. The colored people had been talk iner for a lone time about having seen i big fish iu the waters. They had shot at him repeatedly, and had set all sorts oJ trot lines to catch him without success. "Fianlly there came a rise inths river, and when the waters receded from the swamp back ef the river the fish was grounded and capture !. He weight d 315 pounds, and when cut open there was found in his stomach two fish hooks and a line, a ten penny nail, a gold ring, anc the most curious thing of all a regis tered letter addressed tr the Hon. Wal ter Merriwether, of Richmond, Va.. which had beeu lost for two weeks, anc which had given the postal authorities unbounded trouble. The question wa. and is, How did that letter ever find iti wav frem the postal car te the fish'i mouth? A Burning Coal and Coke Train: Richmond, Va. A special says that a collision occurred at the long tunnel near Mill Creek, on the Elk Horn dir. i.ion of the Norfolk & Western Railroad, caused by a section of the coal train . , . , a ii D. easing io?se ana running inw anem?r train following. No lives were lost, but there was great damage to property. The wreck took fire, which was communi nicated to the coal and coke. The tun nel had to be flooded and it will be sev eral days before it will cltar. HART CO., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1893. DIXIE NEWS. The Beloved South Gleaned and; Epitomized. I . t All the Newa and Occurence Printed -Here in Condensed Form. i Eggs are selling at 35 and 38 cents per dozen in the Shenandoah Valley. if J. J. Davis, of Stovall, N. C, kilWdT three deer last week with two shots. j; A $100,000 cloth finishing plant will; be built at Greensboro, N. C. Chicago capitalists will put $5,000,000, in a bridge half a mile long across the Mississippi river, near New Orleans. 'ij The Columbia, 8. C, Cotton Mill Com? pany, has been chartered : capital 6tock $700,000. - - The City of Charleston has taken $2,h 000,000 of the South Carolina State bonds. i The Louisiana Lottery Company is to" be removed to Honduras, and Gentrals Beauregard and Early will still be at the . wheel. ,i A new phosphate bed has been disco vr ered in Orangeburg county,S. C, which,! it is thought, will prove one of the rich e est in the State. f Three Mormons, with prose!yting 'inf tentions, have been roaming about Char lottesville, Va., lately. They have been refused the use of the court-house and other public buildings. . Jefferson Davis's remains will, be' finally ioterred in Hollywood cemetery. iticnmona, va. .oniaybu. . me monuy ment to his memory will be erected ir Monroe Park, that city. rjf A new railroad is projected to build from Winston, N. C, to Charlotte : and, southwardly into South Carolina. , Ap? plication has been made to the Norths Carolina Legislature for a charter. I i Nearly all of the light-houses and buoys in the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, Chesapeake bay and Hamptor Roads have been carried away by the ice. Georgia cotton planters are consider ing the proposition to meet together at Augusta and agrt e upon a fixed reduc tion of cotton acreage. ; The Supreme Court of appea's atRich mond, Va., reversed the decision of thei Hustings Court of Alexandria in the case of Jeff. Phillips, convicted of killing -George Smith, July 22nd, 1891, and sen tenced to be hanged. i They had a big spelling bee in Raleigbf N . C, the other night and W, G. Burki head, Esq., principal clerk of the Senate, was the last man to fit dowm Used tij be in the newspaper business, you see. j Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson anj his charming family will attend the ses sion of the Teachers' Association at More? hed City, N. C, in June. The Leaksville, N. C, Cotton anq Woolen Mills, heretofore conducted bjj J. T. Morehead & Co.,' have been sold to? the Cone Export and Commission Conif pany. The one Company is nowknowri as the Plaid Trust. 4 The Halls, Ga., Weekly announces thfe following as its subscription rates: "Ontj year, two bushels 'taters'; six months;, two gallons sorghum ; three months, on quart sweet- mash invariably in adjt vance, " ' v James T. Hatton, aged twenty-threey committed suicide at Abington, Va Tuesday evening by shooting himself it the head. Despondency over his faihfre to get employment seems to have beet . ii if. - me cause, ne wub a nice young ma and had some money. j Fire at Norfolk, Va , Wednesday niffc the commission house of B. G. Pollard and the Farmers' Alliance Exchange, 6ft Roanoke dock was destroyed by fire; ; The total loss was $70,000. Betweeti 3,000 and 4, 00 bags of .peanuts wen) burned. In 1889 the North Carolina Legis-aturl passed a law forbidding the hunting ol deer in Caldwell county with dogs, anej until this year the law has been pretty well obeyed, with the resu't of multiply ing the number of dter in the county. Ij. is estimated that there are over one "hunt dred head that , range in the Northerly and Western sections. j The fertilizer companies of Souttj Carolina have already purchased from tbjj state $20,000 worth of ; tax tags, and thA demand continues at the rate of about $650 per day. This is far in excess oft former receipts at the same time of th year. The total amount of the fertilize tax is about $35,000 or $40,000 per yearf There is every indication that it will; go considerably over thit amount this yearj At Forest City, N. C, Ardelia Dean 9 year old daught r of Silina Deatf; while playing with others around th Forest City Manufacturing Company shops, was caught on the shafting anil whipped to death before the machioerj could b3 stopped. Nine citizens of Reck Hill, S. C , havjf formed a Tobacco Growers' Club, anjj have engaged an xpert fromNorth Caro Una to "coach" them. They intend t do their part toward diversifying crope and with nock Hut s cnaractens ic yj ergv, propose to make that city a centre; of tobacco culture Should their ex periment this year prove successful they will establUh a tobacco warehouse in Rock Hill. - J Here is a new indu try for South CaroJ lina. A state commission has been islf suSd to th2 Lhra-h u e Company, oj? Edgefield, "vhoae object is ti do a gen3 eral egricultur.il, milling, mecbauicjl and merchandise busiuess." The company who purpose carrying on this diversified business or businesses, is mainly composed of women . It is said that the demand for cottor) hulls at the oil mill in Greenville, 15 Cj! has become so great ss to exceed the sup'i' ply, and the mill is obliged to buy hullfi from other mills to fill its orders. Four years ago the value of hulls as food fof stock and manure was practically un known. At present about ninety toes of cottons. ed are consumed daily, anc from thirty-five to fifty carloads of co, tonseed meal a week are shipped fropj Greenville. l R. C. Barklev and R. C. Harleitoti of Chrleton, S. C , have leased 2,000 acres of rice land for five years from th Hamilton Diastob Investment Co. The will take a skilled force of hands to work i ! il the property, and will go extensively into the cultivation of rice. The property leased is in the vicinity of Lake Tohope kaliga, Fla. , and has, it is said, never s produced less than seventy-five bushels of rice to the acre. A queer rabit story, which beats "Un cle Remus" at his best, comes from Davidson, N. C, via the Atlanta Consti tution. "Mr. John Hedrick killed a very large rabbit during the snow. It had a large raised place on the inside of the left leg, which he cut into and found be tween the flesh and hide two leather winged bats, which were full grown. The bats were fastened to the flsh of the ' rabbit by a leader or something similar.' There was not a broken place in the hide -until Mr. Hedrick cut, it." Says the Richmond, Va., Times: More and rnc-ie the plantations, graperies, and orange grove3 of Florida are passing into the hands of Northerners and Englishmen for an enervating climate will destroy local energies in time. The "crackers," or native population, are improving un der education, but they do not grow fast mentally, and their farming is confined . to a little planting near their cabins. Naturally they are a simple and hospita ble people, with a speech somewhat tinctured by nero dialect. Besides fruit, Florida has a vast wealth in her phos phate beds, which are of unmeasured ex tent, but one capitalist says that since the investment of $30,000,000 in phos phate in the South the business has been overdone, and there is no demand for pho'pliatc land at present. There is a laige trade in alligators' teeth in the South, for they are treasured a mementoes by tourists. In Jackson vi'le one may have them mounted with aluminum, gold or silver as vinaigrettes, and they are sometimes prettily marked and tinted. A good many boars' teeth 8 re 6old for those, of alligators, but the difference between them is decided, th se cf the boar curving into a quarter circle, while those of the alligator are rounder and nearly straight. Apropos ef both animals, there is nothing that 'gator likes better tha-i fresh pork and hewid toddle three miles from water for a Florids r zorback. In cool weather he buries himself in mud and becomes dormant until it grows warm. . Hunters still make a liviog by killing him for bis hide and teeth. The killing of alligators from the decks of river 6teamers in Florida hae been stopped by law. SOAP BECOMING A LUXURY. The Price Has Risen and Threaten to Go Much Higher. Philadelphia. Pa. The rate at whicl soap is advancing in price, if continued will soon place that article among thi luxuries. Qne month 8go it advanced 25 'cents per box, about two weeks ago t further advance of 15 cents was added, and Friday the wholesalers were placing gr'ders at an advance of 60 cents on thi box. Manufacturers and dealers say the top price has not iet been reaohed and hesitate about predicting anything except that the outlook at present points to a still further rise. The advance is due to a scarcity of cat tie and hogs, which has put up the prici of tallow and lard. Tallow and lard, which a few months ago were exported to Germany, are now being sent back to this country, , where they meet with t ready sale at a price which makes it de sirable to import them. All lubricating, and machinery oils advanced, and cottolene and other vege table oils have also advanced on accounl of increased consumption. The vegeta ble oils are being largely substituted foi animal fats, both f . r making soaps and for lubricating purposes She is Black One Tear and White the Next. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. Canton, Miss. A woman appeared on the streets here who attracted much attention. She has a perfectly white face and hands and short kinky hair, with the features of a negro. The woman said that she was born black and remain ed so until she was fifteen years old, when 6he suddenly turned white, remaining so for one year, when she turned black again. Since that time she is alternately white and black, not alone in spots, but changes color entirely. She is fairly in telligent, and says she has never had a spell of tickness and has never taken a dose of medicine. She live3 near Sallis Station, on the Canton and Aberdeen road. She says she cannot stand the sun at all, and wears a double veil and heavy gloves. She says if the sun shines on her skin for one minute it causes it to blister at once. She has been examined by physicians, who are unable to account for the change in her color. THE WALL STREET MONEY KINGS The Fool in National Cordage Divides Profits ofj $2,690,000. New Yobk. N. Y. A meeting was held in a well-known Wall street office after business hours at which $1,370,00C in cash was di'tiibuted among those present by James R. Keene. The occa sion was tbe distribution of the profits . that have accrued from Mr. Keene's bull ' campaign in the stocks of the National Cordage Company. The attendance al the meeting was not large, jet it included all of those who have co operated with Mr. Keene in one of tie most successful operations he has evr made; for besides ' the cash profits divided, Mr. Keene re ported tbat the combination had qu:ck a-sets of the valut of $1,200,000, making the total pr Ms otitne aeai nearly f z,tw, 0D0. ! A Much Married Man; Bristol, Ten. George McCary, who resides two mi!es from this city, seems to be a much married man, and is in greit trouble over the matter.- He was "arrtsted on the charge of bigamy; had a preliminary hearing, was bound over to court, and now rests in jail, being un able to give bond: McCary married Miss Rosabelle Ashley, abeautiful young lady of this city, about three months ago. Mss. Ashley, the girl's mother, recently dircovered that he had two other living wires, one at Greenevilie, Tenn., the other not located. A telegram from the cbitf of police of Greenevilie, Tenn., , stated that the man was wanted there for bigamy. CARLISLE'S GOOD NAME. It is Involved in an Ugly Scandal He ia Said to Have Been the Defend ant in a Wine Bill 8uit Brought by a Notorious Courtesan. Cincinnati, O. Clark Lane, formerly of the firm of Owens, Lane, Dyer & Co., extensive manufacturers of agricultural implements at Hamilton, Ohio, but who for several years has led a retired life on a farm at Mount Healthy, ten miles from Cincinnati, walked into Magistrate Gass' office, in this city, at noon and asked to be shown ex-'Squire Marchant's docket of 1882. The old book was dug from under a pile of dust Mr. Lane carefully scan ning the index, finally discovered what her wanted and then turned to a page in the book. Hastily glancing at it he called 'Squire Gass to his side. Pointing to an entry on the top of the page which read "Kate Riley vs. Kentucky,' he said: "This en try ha been tampered with." On the lines opposite the entry was one which gave the cause of tbe suit. It was for $290 for wine sold and de li rered by Kate Riley, the notorious Longworth street landlady. The date of the entry is November 2, 1882, and shows that the papers were served by Constable Al Ltonard. Further alonjj in the entry is the statement that on No vember 6, 1882, the money was paid and suit dismissed. CARLISLE THE DEFENDANT. "This tampered with entry here," 6ai Mr. Lane, "is a suit against John G Carlisle, and for some reason the entry was changed." The index was referred to, and it was found that the record read : "Kate Riley Against J. G. Carlisle." Lane prepared a transcript of the page and also a copy of the entry on the index. When asked what he wanted with it he said that Senator Carlisle had not acted square with him in certain money matters and that he was looking the mat ter up for this reason. Lane acted in a very mysterious - man -ner, and it is thought that his explana tion as to why he wanted the informa tion is a blind. The general impression ii that he is a s cret agent of some pei son or persons who are working against the interests of Mr. Carlisle, and that the transcript Lane secured will be on its way to Wash'ngton- soon. The lower entry on the docket says that the suit waa dismissed at the cost of plaintiff. A CONSPIRACY AGAINST CARLISLE. Ex-County Prosecutor William H. Pugh, who has been for years an intimate friend of John G. Carlisle, and who is a brother of ex-United States Senator George H. Pugh, was seen and the mat tt r mentioned to him. - "Let me tell you " he said, "there's not a word of truth in it. I know what you mean. This business has been brewing for some time, and now it's sprung. "You can 6ay that there is a base con spiracy working to keep Carlisle out of tne cabinet and that there will be an ar rest for criminal libel to follow within a few days. I don't mean that any news paper man will be arrested, but that the instigator of this whole miserable busi ness will be brought before the courts." HE BECOMES RETICENT. "But, Judge, is the docket false?" "I don't say that. I do reiterate, how. ever, that there is a fraud under the whole aff n'r and that it will now be ex posed. I shall telegraph to Washington instantly." "Is the secret enemy of Carlisle located in Cincinnati?" "I won't say even thit at the present time. There is too much in this con spiracy to have it all sprung at once." Further than this Mr. Pugh could not be induced to talk at present. CARLISLE DENIES TIIE STORT. Senator Carlisle was telegraphed tht particulars of the Lane episode, and the following answer came from him: "Washington, D. C. I never heard of the alleged proce;dingi until a few days ago. Of course the man is an enemy. I have telegraphed my attorney at Cin cinnati. J. G. Carlisle. Easy on Boys. North Carolina Teacher. At a r.rent board school examination for girls, one ef the tasks was an essay on br.ys, and this was one of the compo sitions, just as it was handed in by a girl of 12: "Tne boy is not an animal, yet they can be heard to a considerable dis tance. When a boy hollers he opens his big mouth like frogs, but girls hold their toung till they are spoke to, and then they answer respectable ana ten just now it was. A bov thinks himself clever be cause he can wade where it is deep, but m . -V m God made tne dry land ior every living thine, and rested on the seventh dav. When the Loy grows up he is called a husband, the grew up girl is a widow and keeps house." Justice . Lamar's Successor. Washington, D. C The President norain.ted Howell E. Jackson, of Ten nessee, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice L Q C. Lamar, deceased. Ilowel'i Edmunds Jackson is a Demo crat. He is an ex senator from Ten nessee and at present judge of the United StitfS court for the district embracing Tennessee. lie is a native and lifelong resident of Tennes-ee. He is remember ed at the Capitol a? a man of quiet, uj assuming manners, gentle, well liked and distinguished for fairncsj and judicial consideration of the ques tions arising here. Compress Boilers Explodes. Memphis. Tenn. The Planters com nress boilers at Vicksburg, Miss., ex ploded at 11 :30 o'clock Thursday. The compress was torn to pieces. Three men so far have been taken1 out dead. Ter people are still in the ruins. Seven have been taken ou. more or less injured. The fire engines are at work to keep the cotton from burning. For Additional Naval Grounds. Washington, D. C S.nator Butler offered an amendment to the navsl ap propiiatipn bill authorizing the purchase of certaia pUts for naval purposes at the Port Royal, 8. C, naval station at a sum not exceeding $10,000. NO. 51 IN A DOOMED LIGHTHOUSE. Keeper Thomas' Thrilling .Story O; Escape from Wolf Trap. Nohfolk, Va In an interview with John William Thomas, assistant keepei of the. Wolf -Trap light station, which succumbed to the ice 1 st week, he says he had an experience calculated to quick en h s wits and open his weather eye, and will doubtles be renumbered as the su preme event of his life. Mr. Thomas was alone at the station, which is 1c twelve feet of water, and three m'des front the shore. It is not easy to. appreciate the dieadful forebodings which filled his mind as day after day he watched thi thickening ic., conscious as he was of th great peril which environed him, hi9 dis tress signals unnoticed, -with thtt vast field of ice expanding its mighty powei against the piles ard gathering additional strength eery moment as it ovrlapped and piled up against the doomed struc ture. To pray in s-ch a crisis was a mos1 na'untl thing to do, and pray he did, long and feivently, and he fe.-li assured, for it was not very long before he de scried in th distance the smoke of 8 steamer b. tiling with the ice. Slowlj sh proceeded along until, getting abreasl of th stttion, she was stopped by the thick ice. A'thouh the steamer was s rae hdf mile out toward the ship chan nel, the nervy keeper determined tc abandon the station to its impending fati and make the effort to reach her. Get ting upon the untried ice he proceeded towara her, waving hi9 hat to attract thi attention of those on bwd. Whet within hailing distance he cried out lust ily to the officer in command, and wat told to come aboard, which he did ii . safety. On leaving the steam r his. her up thi bay for the shore he broke through th ice in eight feet of water aid came neai being drowned. Tradition has it that Wl Trap ,de rives its name from the r'Uuding of thi ' British man of war Wolf on the bar dur ing the Revolution. The lighthouse is ashore at the cap?s and the leuses are in Richmond. , - Agricultural Appropriations. Washington, D. C. The House com mittee on agriculture completed th agriculture appropriition bill. The bill as agreed upon carries an appropriation of $3,189,800 a reduction ol $38,360 from the currant fiscal year and $125,700 below the estimates. The total decrease froni last year's appropriations is really $193, 160,"as a deficiency bill was parsed last year appropriating $160,000 fur the in spection of meat and live stock exported and for an inquiry into the manufacture of sugar. An item of $10,000 proposed for experimental silk culture was reject ed, and ho provision was made for ex 'perimeuts in rain-making. FIFTY-SEOOND CONGRESS, mm In the Senate. 33d Dav. Senator Chandler ha ' ra portel to the Semts fro:n the Immigra tion Committee a bill establishing additional regulations .concerning immigration The Army Appropriation bill was reported. The bill, a passed by the House, appropriates $24.197,39. ThU amount is increased by $126,000 by the Senate Committee The Fortifications Appropriation bill was also reported. 34th" Day. Mr. Chandler introduce! a resolution dlrectinj the President to open negotiations with the Hawaiian Com-nis " sinners. 35th Day. Mr. Harris reportei th Senat9 Quarantine Ml", with the appropr iat ing clause omitted, as a substitute for th Quarantine and Immigration bill passe 1 ny the House The Snate took up Mr.Chai I- ler's resolution, requesting the President t j transmit to the Senate any convention 119 may make with the provisional Gov?rn ment ot Hawaii. Mr. Chandler's HawaHau resolution went over without action Tbe Anti-Option bill was tken up and dis cussed by Messrs. Wolcott, Gray and 11 Z' gins. Explanations of the reason why tasy felt compelled to vote against the bill wr given ty messrs. uerry, omvs, vanu, uli:i and Vest. The bill was passed by a vot .of fortv to twenty-nine. 36th Day. The Army and Fortification bills were passed- The District bill wa considered. 37th Day. The Chandler Hawaiian reso lution was referred to ths Committee on Foreign Affairs Messrs. Hale an I B '-ct- burn were appointed tellers to assut .u counting the Presidential votes Mr. Ctr- lisle's resignation as Senator from Keatuixy was presented The District Appropria tion Dill was passed The French extra dition treaty was ratified. 83th DAT.-iJIr. Hill gave notice that he would call up the Sherman Silver Repeal bill -Tbe House bill to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Cbtrolcea Indians wag taken up and many amendments w.-e offered, discussed and disposed of. The bill was laid aside without final actioir' it 3 E, m. bunmess was suspended in order t'jae ttine tributes might be made to the roenr ory olthe late Senalor Barbour, of Virglah.. Eulogies were pronouncsi by Mssr. Dante', Manderson, Faulkner, Galliaer, Piatt, Hill, Hisoock and Hantou. In the lloaae. 36th Day. An investigation of the Am r can end of th Panama scandal was for.n V!iy ordered Mr.'McMtllln reportad a re .u-. tion empowering the Julictary Co nna tce to investigate the 'whisky traf and other combinations aliega i to be In restraint of trade Mr. Hpriager introduced a bill to repeal the clams o'. tht McKlnley act Increasing after January 1, 1894, the duty on manufactures ot linen con taining more than 100 threads to ta- square Inch The Hdu then pr. ceeded in Committee of the VVnoln to tbe consideration Of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill Eulogies wr pronounced on the late E. 8. Stackhou, ot South Carolina; eulogistic speechei war made by Messrs. McLauren. Lanbam, Davis, Lewis. Cat, Shell, Simpson and' Watson the House then ad jouraed. 37th Day. The discussion of the Sualay Civil bill led to a sharp contest over tne pro vision for artiflcial limbs for veterans. S9tb Day. The House spent tbs day i J : the consideration of the Sundry Civil A ' propriation bill. ifwTH Day. The Sundry CjvU bill wat furtoer considered. 40th Day. Mr. McMulin reported a re solution providing for the daily me-itlot of the House at 11 o'clock. Adopted Tar ; was a preliminary fl$ht over ths Aoti-Oj- tion bill John I. Davenport and tti? Federal electwn law were the subjects ot it debate -The Sundry Uivil bill was pajjd Mr. Cummings offered a bil to facili tate political union with Canada. 41st Day. Speaker Crisp ruled that tre Anti-Option bill must be referred to th Agricultural Committee and the amend ments considered in the Committee of thi Whole The House then proceeded in co;n- - mittee to the consideration of the Deficiency Appropriation bill Mr.. Wise offered an amendment granting a month's extra salary to employes of the Bsnat and Home. Is was agreed to. The committee thea roie la the House the extra moath's pay was agreed to, 143 to 64, and the bill waa passed. i