I ! i - I VNTIIAM & PlTTM.V JJ, PrOpiietO fi.00 Ptr Year In Advance.' ( i K TROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD. VOL. V. GOVERNMENTS j AND ROADS. 1.0l)pU'KOVK.MKXTAXAL,YZKI. ,1: Ni. riisce's Address to the Road i;-u"'v- Important Suggestions. its ;;;-wiuflf address delivered be i cnt South Carolina Road . li'M in Columbia by Mr. Nil rnee, gives some interest Mii .tK-u in regard to roads of in ! contains eomc suggestions ,v- improvement of the roads -..lit period that seemed to .invention favorably: j !!.( Moses there have lteer. 1'ir-i tlii' Egyptians, aftervrmls - and then this Greeks called i tr.tv. 1 tlmt we're not used for - f. yal roads or kinds'; Iiitj li- tit' royal roads wen; in- 1 . I. . a-i'l for by the senate t binonia. 'fh'ilx's ami other w re under the supervision of : ,!i-i:t Hi'ii. .Their roads, how .,i t t r t"-st' of the ancient. It v I f..r a commercial city, Carth i t!ii- i'r-t paved roads, The li-j- I tin- arniln of the; Carl ha-- I tle-ir great highways, j which iii- with its provinces were the I and durable ever const ruct- i I -.u r -. Aia-and j Africa :r mperors ruled, they build ii- I n supposed hy the su - I. . . ! it"! i flit ai'i, to have been of it ii d i ri-.'iii. This is attested by th) ; ii- l t-. Oetn iii Italy. Knglan-I, ! S.j v-t in. In the hist nicritioneit - ! I. iiowii by sin-h names a 3 i i-l ili.i'-:", frauds of the devil), al ii !::- giganles '( roads of the giants), ng i st. Isidore. the first paved ru'd il: . bv tie' Cartliageuians. and lue .:! ri' v Halo thai the l'lm-jiii.-ians hi I I' ft l. 1 h-ir sueces. us. n icad t!i- rvn iiiii-i-. and the Alps; many li-;.n! tin- Christian era. The i ; i,t. iceurin road outside of Italy "-:'-.!; a and l-d frm Carthagonato the . where it -iuiiieeted with' others ! i r. . . t'i- Alps o Uome. This road .. id l.y the lgi.ns of Wei pin. The i Augustus is P'nowuel bi .!!- then completed. Tin! iiieb' the system of I'oininun-.-..lepl.-te that little rise w;us kfc rur r - t.i do than t care for tho . r 1 y n -nM rie-ted. Of his successors, w.i-i t ti" most zealous, as is shown by t - "iplions. ia preserving the public i:id in constructing other?. His ; u -a.- followed by others, but after ;!: authority of I lie emperors deelin i t ! care was given to distant public ... 1 ii'- ri-ini-val of the court to Byzantine - .'.int in- completed the abandonment : i 'mi! ling and was the beginning of 1 ,i:if of that maguilleont system of - that he-e l Jiome to its most distant i i i -. '1 he Koinaus divided their roads : i i: uy lughways, called pretoriaa t-iir.iri s and local via?. The hrst was : i . f.i ilitate the marching of armies and t the capital with the principal I trat vie points. Tuey were eon ! and kept ia repair by the imperial t ::t.' at. The second were the routes of ive and connected towns and trade s, and were eons-tructed to assist the i his and intercourse of traflb'.i They built and maintained by municipal r;i:u.'iits. In Austria there rii two of roads oue called the state xoad i i entirely- under the control of , and i i oiiiph te repairs by the government. ; !iit. known as a provincal or district . v. hii-li are maintained and kept in re 1 ; i r ; 1 y by the government and partly .. pro ini-cs throuijh which they pass, i I i .iie-e t he public roads are divided tlir -ia-.-e?-. as follows: First, national ate.roads. constructed aud maintained ;-e ,-i ifc. Se.'oml, dejiartment roads, i-iy at the cost of tin; departments, and !, t.ovii-iiiji roads, which, though eon i -.l t.y the "o:ninuues, receive, in most , -ui i'ott either from the state or from 1 'In- modern road system of France was iMiirated by the First Napoleon apd car ls.. nv.ir.l to its satisfactory and splendid ii Ia.--i.iii by Napoleon I In- i jiad stein of ,' '. ;atr alue4o the hir-i. in b v Napoleon the Third. j - I ranee has been of country as a means r.!:-.ii t!n value of lands and putting el i roj.rietors in e.asy communication i ' heir ijiarkcts than have the railways. . . . pinion of well informed Frenchmen : i ii ue inadea raetical study of economie us. that .tl'.e suiicri) roads "of France i e -i, ,,..i' ,!' the liiost steady aud potent intuitions t the material development 1 i i.ii i-loiis linanciai elasticity of thnt miry. The far-reaching and splendidly ,! urn d road system has distinctly fav I t li -r-uceess of the small landed pro .: i -- and ia their prosperity and tin: . , .li-t ributiin of wealth lis the key i " ict of the wonderful financial '.:'.- and solid prosperity of the French ' i. -:-i. I la ib-nnany the roads are also under -''''trnent control. I ; l iiLflaiid the turnpike system took f tin- maintenance of roads irp to 187t, -n t-y a n a -t of parliament the system was i-in 1. The new system puts the duty i i.uiitenanee of tin- highways upon the v; o the parish and is managed by ,r luj-hway surveyor. Second, parishes are I int . ,iitriets for the conimon object, '. tie-supervision of the highway boards. -!. :::-,ini.-ipal boroughs and towns have '-r- . Miferi'il upon them to perform the : i - ( i highway surveyors within their i ri . . . Lastly, the central authority, ine rii!u"'it Iniard. London.is intrusted : -.Mcr:d Miperiutendeueo of the several i - tor the lienelit of the nation at large. A trcneral invitation for all those in te l i:i good roads has been wisely issued lie road sinerisors of our State.; This n i in th line of progress and in the ral States there are societies devoted to i improvement and a union of allithes-; r -ted should hasten the day when the : i,t parts of the country will be joined 1. "permanent highways, instead of l that now alternate butween sloughs of i :i :.i almost Sahara-like dust. There is whv the State of South Carolina .1 not live her public roads in condition : ! arc favorably isith any in the : 1 States. In the low country ground is level and ia i thosa .i:-are abundance of shell and good ':. The middle and northern portion h:ie plentv of fine gravel, gneis, i. a:i l flint "rock, all eiusily accessible , i ni t be broken and crushed, spread .v:t- r..:i u And then rolled with a heavy . whi i would not only make a cheap i i.il for macadam, but a most durable H e state should aid the counties by an . .1 ..,.r .nriotiin hiptiTinsT in niind that , ! roads are the primary routes of : iueree of the nation; that they are . htulei to Sta and national uid in - i" r-rovement s a the waterway - and nation are both gainers by full transporta ' tring the year; property is advanced ' ; : farmers are encouraged to make a elf-sustaining, if not largely : r rltaMe. The saving in time and r ar- verv important items in lessening -r r.roHnetion The merchants directly benefitted. ': -iierci.'d or.ani7ntioris ret'Ogtiize the - : this argument and the utterances of 1 "ar.ls of trade, chamlers ot commerv c, tikmg and llnancial institutions can be ted. In 1892 the national board of trade . transportation passed the following re :i- "We recognize the exceeding pov- 0 . i -(, , . ' t the cauatrv, even among its rlcaef, I l.iiollc ii'trhwnva 5.1 if. i " XVi" irovide fr their immediate im -royement ander the control of the State fcoyeriiui-n:.. The legislature should an tnln f''":tVl"'('r of highways, who ia turn fchou I I have the power to select the u per w-ors from ea h county and the eon 1 . r llo,'' h" maJa to work upon the roads ei the 'county from which they were con i ted. the road o,ue-tion i- now being sully agitated l.y ico.-tor the States aud many ar,i c.j,,.-tru. ting roads of the l-t , '!s."r,ll'l";'"- 'l'h', '-Itie Htate New Jersey, w h nothing like the size of our State, xp"!id. d in Im'ji on road improvements the s t.n of 'jt.CLKi.Ot. In the Htate of New loric it has teen pro posed to raise the sum of rJ),Wh).(m by a Htate loan, pavablo ia ',,r't at a low rate of interest and devote the entire sum to the im-rovement , or the mnty roads. It would be snujent to eon-.-tru.-tJiii average of 50 miles of splendid roa l-. in . very county of the State and the entire assnn'iil upon a farm of the vnbiH r-f tn.ttu.l would Ih it-Kt than $2. 'Our adjoining State, North Carolina, lia m i 1-eee!ii.nt progress in public, road improvement and has now some as line road -i at will Ih found anywhere. 'The flr-t important step was to secure from the State I' gi.-lature a ithority to levy a road tax of ir., iii 7 to JD mills on a '9 100 worth of laxabi ; vaiii ition. The rate at pieent levied H at oat I', mill-, whi h yi.dds sonn' .:jtj.0iK) a y nr. N "xt the pasag wa .-"cured by law. :.utl.iii;ng the county comir.is-ioner to tak' !. irge of , onvi.-ts sentence.! by the city Mid county courts the punishment tor many olT -! ,.-es being a line ,r so many davs work on the puiili'- road.-. It is tin: bHi.-diu t'lis eo; ntry that thii is' the bc-t possit-le dis position ttiat can bo ma 1 ;.f the onvicts. a t le y are n it tiien brought into direc t com petition with honest, frie labor, while their work inure to the direct beneiu of th pub lic. -The work of building, reconstructing and repairing streets ami roads in M"kl.'ii- I urg is now in .rores in three t ments. 'jiart- .ir-t," in th" ' i!y of Charlotte, under th" oire.a 1:1 of the ejty cuiireil, by tlv mayor, y -n-in-" r and supervis .rof j-trect-.. The work is pai l for out of the ity tn-a-ury. ' 'S -'-oiidj the criiHily Hi large, under the eiivtion of the county commissioner, a '".-ii-l 'if !l . e el,. ; l aiiiiiiify by n vote of nd ti-.e inagist rali'M in the "co inly, by 'the - '-tit tuiic-iT and the erii.lnderit of I'-' Ii i' I eanip. Half the p., isofti." t a I la v i diijbur.-ed by this t oard. r-i -1! townhip, t!trouirh its board of ir'Vl'-'s, ';tiiiIs for I ie.-il work in lo-el ' 'ilelli:.;. one half 1 lie proceeds of the road t i i,ii-ed within the town.-hip. The -uyt f t' edij.g, lothing and guarding convi.-ts I :riiig the jr-t li ve months of l-st: nmonM c.i to -JO- , eeijts per lav. th' avrage niiut t c- .-ijre.i for ling !d per innulii; during II. ii; t nine : mihs of that year an average ( 1 '.D-Convi'-tS moved :'.ti.L'17 e!.bj.- yard.-of cailli on th" loa-ls and erii-hed and pla-' 1 7. '!-l lineal yards i four and. a haif miles i f ii. a adaui 12 feet wide.'; I ijuote largely from iliiTerent Stale and ifoviTiine-iit reports and Mr. I. . Tompkins on roads in Meck-i.-nburg c'liinty, N. C. "Wliat is mo-t im;i'"i-ativelv needed j- to diicate th" poo; le au 1 ,;'c--i:iUy those who It re pla.-fd in charge of the roads how to proi d and that road making aud repairing is an art and trade t hat n't- Is car"fal study and care to sue.'e-f'Uiy carry out, and the soouerthe idea and pracf i -e that any one who can haul a load of mud or sod from where the ditch flight to be and dump it inio the road, is a lit person for road repairing is abandoned, the better. At the outset, an en gineer should be not only eonsul'ed. but em ployed, because he has made a study of road buiMiug unuer "it "I'o.-i .jo 'ui.J..i. ni.-i .... . heneo i- able to not onlv advise von what to lo. but ofien what is eiju.i'iy important, ,vliat :n. t to ilo." At.IIlCL'IrrKALi KXPORfS. UlgF.illing Oil" In Value, hut Not In (juanity. Iue to Decrciise in I rices. , According to a special bulletin issued by the Department of Agriculture . there has been a large falling off in tie value of agri- ultural exports for the fH 'al year ending July 1-t as compared with preceding years. The figures are t.Mj.'ilo.SK for the cur rent fiscal year. ?G2S.3t;:j.:js lor IS'Ji, V-t2.t'St; for KS.15. and t7.;.:5 JS.232 for 1SJ2. s compared with the averag? of the six years from 1S.H) to lS'.U. our agricultural products f.-ll , IT about 'JO.000.0.)0. This shortage, according to Sieeretary Mor ton, is due mainly to shrinkage ot prices. The export values of wheat, flour, aud cot ton for IS'Jj were only i-oOO.OOO.OOO, while ha l the prices of 1892 prevailed the tpiauti- tics exported ia IYJd wosild nave tirougnc m .p,n.(i,M.ii00. t'!.e total exports for the last llseal year of ill kinds of .merchandise were less by vS-.- OOO.nOit than in 1!;U. but th" falling oil was ii: to low prices to Mich an extent, that ha I ttcn. ba on. and lard been sold at the same pri.-es a-- I he previous year, tuey wouiii aione liave brought up the total exports 10 ine ng-ii;-. s the previous year. S vretary ..Morton, however, figures out lh.it there has been a retrograde movement in both ouantitv aud value of flour, wheat, rn. oleomargarine, seeds, cheese, butter, hops, hides, cake and copper," while to bacco, wed. cotton cloths, coal, animals, ag ricultural implements, leather, and furs have held their own. There has been a more or h"ss marked in crease in on. tisn, iruus. anu nuis, iii.iiiiu.e--tuicrs of iron ami steel, cotton seed oil, viu egar, an I wine. KAKMKKS IIOM THKIIi WI1KAT. ConiMnation in the Northwest Formed to liaise Prices. It is reported throughout the Nortlnvest that the wheat growers have formed au or ganization for the purpose of advancing the price of wheat so that it will pay mem to take tlve grain to market. n anonymous circular was scattered broadcast over the Northwest sonm it"o calling upon the farmers to hold tht-ir wheat, as the capitalists ofthe country were manipulating the price m oraer 10 i i.iko r.i. f..r themselves. Koeeipts have 1 VI Hill' ----- , . i fniien oiT c-reatlvinthehist ten days through out t lie entire wheat region The farmers say they will let the grain lie in store on their farms before hey will sell it for less thnn To cents. ' - If a lar 'e amount had not been taken in soon after the harvest was U-gun not a bushel could I sent away until there should be a change in the situation. Wheat is now as low as it ever lVas bevn. It is alleged that the dealers will not offer what the wheat is really worth. The farm - information that ors proicss mum: .v,-... dm nriee will auauci once will innnuo j-- cent, inside of a few months The receipts of all kinds were never so-Jarge as now. of coarse grain 1 HKAM UY I- II K. Half Month Over The Deficit for the Nine Millions- I'. r th half mouth of October th" r eipts cf the Treasury have been .Tl3.Co6.332. and the ex pen-lit -;re5 -512.T21.0O0 makirg th" net deficit lor the half mouth ?3.4c4.f.t. The deficit for the tis-al year to date is 619.360, 325. The deficit for themonth will probably be red -iced at its close t5.000.000 and for the fiscal year at the close of October to 15, 000.000. The gold reserve on Monday was $W,t'9V 01ror the first fifteen days of 0 toler the Treasury paid out S732.579 iu gold in re .i..,i.i iTnitel stntes notes and Treas ry uir--.i.wi- - - - - -a ui-'iee, uuu iui uiv fi., . .1 f.5vai yrnriQ vat-, ??, DUNN, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1895 TORTURED Al LYKGHED The Terrible Vengeance of a Mob in Tennessee. PENALTY FOR HORRIBLE' CRIMES. Je!Tron KlIU, a Colored Mir, Tut to Djath in a Most Crufl Way Uars ail Flnaers Cut Off Then' Hi Head Was I'fmiiTfd ad III Uoily Le t II.irs;njj to n Pole. JfTerson Ellis, a young colored ma:;, who ten djiys before had conimitte 1 a erini.n il a - eauit on Mise Sue Fraeter. a be.i-.iifii! young i woman, who lives With her parcnis nj:irJa -loway, Tenn.. was lynched witiii n oih hu'! dreJ yards of th? scene of th" asmlt. H was horribly tortured be for he wa-. I.iile I. He was decapitated while his heart yet b" i. Ellis was eaplureJ in Mississippi a:: lta'ien to Ga'.loway in a b".ck. lie was p'.aied ia a buggy beside a constable, Hnl was s' arte I towarl the ho re of the voting lady, to b identified by her, after wliicli lie w i- to b taken to Somervil'e and put in ja'l. 1 ! nt:p cation was entirely uniiec s-:i,;-y. iir L.-;ijii.'!i as Ellis confessed his crime. As soon asthn wheels of the ?.--table'. huggy made their first revolution 7,:0 armed horsemen swung into line behind it. The officer drove with reckless rapi Id v, :m 1 t 'a ,- pRvaicaoH ionowert mm witn eveiy nor- : o-i a dead run. As the pro?esion wn pa-.-Ing nut of the village nf Galloway, a tier of Women standing by the roa.Iside' crie I o-jf to thsin: "Remember your wives an 1 dngliter.-, men; do not let the man e;.c i;ie." As soon ns the I'raeter h.ms" ws re:i"hed . the young lady identified tho proner. Im mediately the eonatable wa eovei-.' I with t score of shotguns mid made, to deliver th'1 prisoner, who was taken bv the mob. Ellis confessed to being implicated in ll:o assault on and murder of Mrs. John ii ii!cy. which occurred some two years ng . -li-; also told the names of two co!ore.l cron.es of his who, he said, en t ere I t h.civ ol' Mrs. Harrel, a widow who lives within a f '' .v miles ot where he was lynched, two :a'.el'i : ago, and, after assaulting her two ''.aughters, burned them and thirmfithcr in ti.e;;- iiome. Then he confessed to beating hi.i own wiTe s badly that she died. After Ellis had made these conff :--ions, he was taken to n point about one hu?i.lr.vl an I fifty yards from the Fraeter lien.-. .'. w '.i ore a huge lire had been built, and toll to prepare for death. A frenzied, hot healed man pushed through the crowd, brandishing a knife, and yelled: ''Kneel down and pray, you dog. . I'm go iDg to cut off your ears!" " The wretch knelt, but did not pray, and the man began cutting off hi-t right ea r. Ellis fell to the ground with a shriek of pain,- and some one cried out: 'Yon remember how that poor girl begged for her honor, don't youV" Then members of t lie mob yelled? "Give me his other ear!" "I want a finger! The dpomed man's other ear was severed from his head, after which eaehofhis fiiige-rs was cut off. He was then further mutilated. A number of the mob favored ro.r-ting tiieir victim alive, and loud cries of "Barn him! Burn him!" could be heard. The major por tion of them, however, favored hanging him without further brutality, and h. was strung up to the telegraph pole, bearing on his breast a placard on which was written: - "Death to the IVrson Who Cuts Down This Body Before Sundown.'- When the victim had been hung from tin? crossbars of the pole, the greater parr of the mob left, but a few remained, and while his pulse still faintly beat he was lower.;. I In the ground and decapitated with a penknife. After the flesh was cut away from the neck bone, the bone was wrenched and the bloody head was placed in a sack. This terrible trophy was sent to the family of a Id tie girl living in Mississippi whom Ellis attempted to assault while the posse was iu pursuit of him for assaulting MissPraeter. The verdict of the Coroners jury was "Deceased came to his death at tho hands of unknown parties." The dead man's family was then allowed to cut dowa the body and bury it minus head, ears and fingers. TURKEY FINALLY SU3VUTS. Tli Plan of It p form for Armenia Accept ed ly Said I'asha. 3 Said Tasha, the Foreign Minister of Tur key, has accepted tho plan of reform in Ar menia presented by Great Britain. Franco and Russia. It now awaits the Sultan's sig nature. The plan is almost identical -with tnn proposals of last May. Tho Governors and Viee-Goveniors of Van, Erzoroum, Stvas. Bitlis. Kharlut ;ui l "TrebJ 7.0 nd are to bo Christian or Mussulman, as people in each section desire, but either the Governor or the Vicc-Governor must io a Christian. Appointments are to 'je con firmed by tho Berlin treaty Powers. Local, not State officers, ;in to coll yettho taxes, and enough money isto be reta jie-l to pay local administration expenses. Com plete changes will be made in tho 'udicial system, torture will be abolished, the pris ons will bo under surveillance, iko police force will be composed of Christian and Turks equally, and the laws agai 1st compul sory conversion to Islamisni wi II be strictly en forced. Contrary to expectation, th" Iliga Com missioner chargod with the ex cuti mi of this reform schemo will w a Christ. it. This was the hardest pill for th- P.h-Ic to swal low. ' CHINA HAS YIELDED, The Deadlock Over MasMcr of jW legion aries nt f.n K id- Information received at II ouKong.t hiua. from Kucheng appears U justify the belief that tho deadlock hetwecn Cna Chinese authorities and the commission which has been Investigating the massacre, of missionaries there h.ia been en led. Tin British Consul has 1,1 an ii tcr viv with the Viceroy of Fu-Klen. which ha res 11 tl in an agreement that eighteen more o; lip convicted prisoners are to be exeeu.l" I and and that the remainder of the n itivs in custody are to be tried by the present com mission, which ii empowered to impe-e t!i sentence of death. This satisfactory result of the ng tiniiou is considered to Vm due to tiie tprim -Hum which tho British Admiral. P- iIIt. .:- Ti ed to have delivered t - th- V.o r of Nan kin. Corbett Hoes to Hot Springs. 1 ft r a stay of nine- davs in San Antoni Jim Corbett and party went to Hot Springs, where the champion resumed his training. WBECE Or TBE 1JALL19 ARES A. At ntla fevas. thia Hop Lumo'r C -3- panv levied an attachment for t4.0X) 03 the umiW used and that was to have bt-nin the arena which was to have been built for the fistic carnival billed to begin October 31. The lumber was to have been moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, for the contest there. BOOM FORTH FIOHT OFFERED IX MEXICO. V concession has been granted by the Gov ernor of Chihuahua, permitting the Corbett Fitzslmmons fight to take place in Juarez, lust aoro-fl th rlvr from El Paso, Texas. CONSTITUTION OF FBEK CUBA. Formal Article of tiovernment to Which Cuban Delegates Pledged Themselves. The constitution of the Cuban revolution ary government, has been promulgated. The introduction and text follows: The revolution for the independence and creation in Cuba of a democratic republi' Initiated the 21th day of February last,so!ely declared the separation of Cuba from tho Spanish monarchy. The elected delegates of the revolution, in convention assembled, have now formed a compact lietwecu tho world and Cuba,"'and pledge themselves to the following articles of the constitution of the new CuUm re-publi.;.- Article 1. The supreme power of the re public y, yi be vested in a council of Ministers, composed ,,f a president, vice-president, and o ur .secretaries, for the dispatch of business of War, of the Interior, of Foreign Affairs, and of Agriculture. Art. II. Every secretary will hare a sub sccrciarv. iu order to supply any Vacancy; Art. III. -The attribute! il the ministerial government will be toditato all the relative dispositions of the civil and political life of the republic; to receive contributions; to contra, t publi- loans; to issue paper money $ to raise troops and to maintain them; to de clare reprisals, with resect to the enemy, and to ratify treaties, except the peace with Spain: to submit judicial authority to the President: to approve the law of military or ganisation, and ordinances of the military service, as drawn up hy by th-? Commander-in-Chief. Art. IV.- The Ministerial Council only wiil be able to intervene in taking part In the military operations when, in their judgment, it will le absolutely necessary. Art. V. It is requisite for the validity ot the Ministerial Council decrees that two ihirds of the members will have concurred in th'mr. Art. VI. -The office of counsellor is in compatible with the others of the republic, and requires any member to be 9.5 years of age. or upward. Art. VII. The Executive will rest with the President, or, in default, with the Yiee-rresi- deEt. Art. VIII. The work of the Ministerial Council will be sanctioned by the President, who will be able to dissolve it, not to exceed ten days. Art. IX. The President may enact treaties, v. ith the ratillcation oi me ministerial Council. Ait. X. The President will receive am bassadors. Art. .XI. The treaty of peace with Spain, which it is necessary to have to form an ab solute basis of independence, for the island of Cuba, should bo ratified by tho Ministerial Council, and hy an assembly of representa tives convoked for that end. Art. XII.- The Vice-President will act for the the President in ease of necessity. Art. XIII. -Iu ease the offices of Presi dent and Vice-President should be vacant by resignation or by death, or by other cause, at the same time, an assembly of representa tives will becalled for an election. Art. XIV. The secretaries are to take part wit h voice and vote in all deliberations. Ait. XV. It is permitted to the secretaries to arrange for all the employes of their re spective departments. Art. XVI. The sub-secretaries will consti tute a legal body in cases of vacancy of the Secretaries of State, having their voice iu the deliberations. Art. XVII. All outside armament of the republic, and the direction of the operators of war. will bo directly under the hand of the Commander-in-Chief, who will have at his order, as second iu command, a lieuten ant-general, as a substitute in case of ne- cessit v. Art. XVIII. All functionaries, of what ever class, who are able, must lend recipro val help for the better accomplishment of the resolutions of the Ministerial Government. Ait. XIX. All Cubans will le obliged t serve the republic with- their persons and in terests. according to their power. Art. XX. The property, of whatever class, appertaining to foreigners, is exempt from paying taxes in favor of the republic, pro viding their respective governments reeog uize the belligerency of Cuba. Art. XXI All debts contracted from the actual initiation of the war until this consti tution is promulgated will be paid. , Art. XXII .The Ministerial Council has the power to reduce any member for just cause, iu the judgment of two-thirds of the Councillors. Art. XXIII. The judicial authority will proceed wiin eunre juueieuueuce oi n iuu ... . . i i . .. 1 1 . i. . others. 2'ew York J-rUtl TIIF. END IS NOT YHT. Future Cotton Markets Tjaigely Over sold and the Price JliistOo Higher.- At wood, iolett ft Co., of New ork, 111 a special to the Charlotte Observer say: Th prospects for this market adding to its stock A are becoming more and more remote, unlesf they are compelled to do so at no matter what sacrifice, should they desire to liqui date with the actual thing, instead of buying in their contracts. The conditions are very simple, but, strange-to say, they are eondi lions that have been ignored by the very people who should have given most attention to them, and that is, of course, the specula tive short luterest. It stands that if cotteu cannot be brought here, for reasons mentioned already, and the people who are long of contracts should un dertake to demand delivery of tho cotton they have bought, it would force the shorts into competition with exporters and buyers for domestic mills. This would bring about Kilkenny conditions of a highly interesting character to tho spot holder, but decidedly worrying to the spot buyer. An explanation of the advance iu contracts is to be had mainly in the fact that the fu ture markets are largely oversold, and the end is not yet. SOUTHERN COTTON MOVEMENT. Comparisons of Last Week Figure With Those of the Iast Three Years. The New Orleans cotton exchange state, merit from September 1st to October 18. h, inclusive: Port receipts. 1.05S.01S bales again-t 1,357, OO'Jla-t vear. 1.024. 2:it year before last, and '.".il.tiTti tor the same time iu 1892, overland to mills and Canada, 81.575 against I26.'J0I, 57 S74 and 'J.t,0'.t7. Interior .stocks iu excess of S pteaitier 1st. 22,..'2'.'J against 170,127, 147 tt.'i 1 and 130.007. Southern mill taking. i:!7."77 against 125.376, lOW-M last year, and l(;!;oi for the same time iu 18'J2; crop brought into sight during 48 days to date, l.t0ti.40'. against 1.77'J.41, 1.3i8.850, 1,328, 27'. Crop I rougbt into sight for the week, iilia tt'XS against 476,459 Tor the seveu days endiil O.-tolfr lth la--t year, 358,21 and :U0.17I Crop brought into sigh- for the fii-t eighteen d.-r.s of October. 971.f24 aiam-t 1.108.879. 8 J3.607 and 702.001 . K imparl.-!:- in the reports are made u: t j the ccrrt spo::d:ug date last year, year te l ire and in and n-t to the close of th corresponding week. Comparisons by weeks would take iu ii davsol th-season last year, 50 vear before last and 51 ia I8''2 igaius rhlv 4 davs this year. j A Horse Heavily Insured. At Waterbury. Conn., on Sunday, a serious wreck of a freight train occurred on the. New England Railroad. Ten loaded freight cars were demolished. Three men were Injured and the track horse Mazeppa was killed. The horse Is said to have been Insured for (100,000. Koran?. Queeo'a lSoil.r '' nnd. i The boJy of the murdered Queen of Korei has tTen foyr.d. a Houl oiipaieh repon- ' WOMEN AGAINST LYNCHING. w. C. T. U. SO KKt ORI) TH KM SKbVKS INCONVKNTION. A Message . Sent the Congress of the Kpiseopal Church Urging Use ot Only Unrern.ented.Wlne In the Sacrament of the Lord's ' Supper. Ketweeii .'ti') and 00 ) delegates from f .18 Stales mid territories, represent ing nearly oO, ') mem'iers of the Woinau's ( In isliauTei-ii ci rtrice Union, cougrcpatcd at Mum.- Ha! last v.ocktt attend the '22ud uuntial couvcnlioii of that society. The hall was iWkd liy half imst ofght o'clock. Preceding the regular session of the convention a prayer inciting conducted by Aits. !. Fowler Willing, national evangelist, was held in the annex hall. An Miss Frances E. Willard, national president of the armv of women, entered the main hall, she wag greeted. with the Chautauqua salute by au audience that lilled the auditorium to overilowiug. Over :i,U0O persons had assembled to welcome the white ribbon delegates, making n total of almost 4,000 in the hall, when the convention was called to order. Following the drop of the gaVel rt oru&ade pealni wa3 read responsively, led by Mrs. Eliza Thompson of Hilla- boro, Ohio, who is more familiarly known in temperance circles as "Mother Thompson." Mrs. Thorn p- 6ou is in ner eigntietu year, urn, utr powers seemed unimpaired . as she led the reading this morning. Mrs. Henrietta L. Monroe, preHi- deut of the Ohio W. C. T. U., offt red h fervent invocation. Some routine business was followed by the reading of the president's annua1 report. In the midst of her address, v. hile recommending a con'.iuuace of total abstinence on the part of every dele gate, Miss Willard requested every woman present to arise and thereby indicate their willingness to renew the pledge. Every woman in the house, delegates and visitors as well, arose while great enthusiasm prevailed in every directum. ' At the conclusion of her address r large white silk banner, studded with ilfty gut stars,' representing the States and territories wherein the W. C T. U. have representation, was presented to Miss Willard by Mrs. YV. Jennings Uemorest, chairman of the executive committee of Sorosis, N. Y. A cable gram of greeting from Lady Henry Somerset of England was read. Ihe report of the corresponding secretary and the treasurer were then read. Each showed the union to be flourish ing and growing. Mrs. Laura Omis ton Chant, of London, England, who became known throughout the world a few months ago bv her efforts to have the music.halls of London closed, ad dressed the convention on teniperauce work iu Euglaud. At the afternoon session two reso lutions were presented aud adopted. Mrs. A. S. Benjamin, of Michigan, offered the following: ".Resolved, That the white ribbon women who wore the badge of peice ought to never be placed in the posi tion of having to defend thempeivea from the charge that they favored the lynching of any human beiug what ever, and we keenly fetl the false posi tion in which we have been placed and repudiate any action inconsistent with the law of Cnrist which, ps every one knows, is totally at variance with the torture or killing of any human being without opportunity to have his case fairly pleaded aud to have been tried by a jury. We do not multiply epi thets 011 this subject. We leave that to those who have misrepresented our position, but we have never hesitated and do not to place ourselves squarely on record iu regard to lynching and other lawless practices in our own or any other eountrv, and we believe that when womeu have a share in making the laws such atrocities will disappear from the face of the earth." The other resolution was presented lev Mrs. Mattie McClelland Browlh Jt required the sending of greeting tothe congress of the Episcopal church in session at Minneapolis-requesting that ns the usy of fermented wines in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper is ob jectionable to a largo proportion of the moid devoted . membt ihip of the church, aud is a source of danger to nnv who mav have come uudtr the ij power of alcohol, that the general con vention approve and sanction, if it may not enioin. the use of uufermented wine nt the communion sacrament. Music Hall wai crowded at the night session, in me aoseuce 01 uovcrnor . w 1 1 1 t Brown. Mavor Latrobe welcomed the delegates to the city. Rrv. John F. Goucher, president of the womanscol lege, spoke in behak" of th- Methodist Ei-isconal church. In the absence from the citv of Cardinal Gibbons, Rev. E. Bartlett made the welcoming address iu behalf of the Catholic clergv. He read a message of encour agement and promise vf support from bia eminence. NO EXTORTION IN ATLANTA. President Collier of the Kxpoiitton Is sues a Card to the Pubiic- On Fri lay President Co'.isc-r -.f t'aiCo'toa States F.xDositian. at Atlanta, f irci-1-i the following card about th- charges of titer- tions and iacosplete coalition of the expo sition for th press. Tnfounded rumor? have be-u .-ircuijiel to the effect that the Cotton States an 1 In ternational exposition is not complete. I deem it my duty to make an official and au thoritative announcement mat ine cxp -si- rinn is eoninlete. and rea.1v for the closest c.r.,nn. The reitnrt t hat extort i n is iiw lirHctieed noon visitors and charge i t- creased are u at rue. Reason abl- prj.-s are charged in very in-tance. (slfatd) 1 ' "G. A. CaiAiw, Frtfldtnt,"' TKL.EORAPIIIC TICKS. The town of Blanchester, O., was almost completely wiped cut by fiie Friday. i The miningtown ot Crede, Col., was almost entirely destroyed by fire early Saturday morning. A disastrous fire occurred in New Orleans on Friday, destroyiug about 300,000 worth or property. Robert Ridley, a negro, was hanged at Sussex Court House, Va., on Friday. Last December he fhot aud killed a man named Williams at that place Morris Schoenbolz, convicted of ar son iu the first degree, seVond offense. was sentenced to 48 years in the State prison York. by Judge Fitzgerald at New At Washington, the Colored Nation al Convention com pit ted its work Fri day when Chairman James W. Poe de clared it adjourned to meet nt Rich mond, Va.-, the second Ttttsday of Julv, 1S90. The aggregate of the embezzlement of the State Bank cashier. J. 0. Coleau, of Fort Scott, Kas , is declared by Vice President Stewart, to be fully $50,000. This has renewed the ex citement and shuttered the hopes of many of the depositors and all of the stockholders. The forgeries of A. K. Ward, mana oer .if the Memt.his. Tenn.. Battel and Heading Company, grow, and are now estimated by Memphis bankers to be not less than $200,000. It is thought he has gone to Honduras and the opinion prevails that he. has the bulk of the money with him'. Champion Corbett arrived in Hot Spriugs, Ark., Friday morning from his training quarters at Spring Lake, and w as met at the depot by Sheriff Houpt, Manager Brady, Joe Vehdig and other 'friends and officials of the Florida Athletic Club. He was taken before a justice of the peace. The warrant for the arrest of Corbett was i-sued upon a complaint by Prosecuting At torney Teague, that Corbett has threatened to engage in a piize-fibl or a glove contest with one Robeit Fitzoimmons, and has threatened and is about to commit an assault ami bat tery upon the person 'of said Robert Fitzsimmons, which assault and bat tery is of n character endangering hu man life. Corbett was released on a petition of habeas corpus, pending his trial. HKADSTKICRT IlKPOKT. Large Gains Iu Cotton An KlTort to Corner in New Orleans. Bradstreet's report of the condition of bus iness for the past week saysi There is less push to the general com mercial movement mis week', indicated as much by reports from the Eastern jobbers and others, whose travelers have returned from trips West and Northwest. There are. of course, noteworthy exceptions. D iltimore merchants flndini; relatively most satisfactory . 1.. r..u; . i . 1.. . . -. , . . , , . - ir.iuc. iuo is i.eiy uueiy ine remarkably favorable . conditions nt the South. In 1 1L . 1. . . . general, me volume 01 business appears sngntiy emauer tins week, but With a wid spread, although somewhat irregular de mand Ihe total business failures throughout the United States this week aggregate 220, as against 2 4 last week. 253 in the like week one year ago, 340 and 21U for the same weeks in 1893 and 1802. At the West business fail urea practically doubled this week as com pared with last. j-avorauie trade reports lrom the South continue to specify continued increases of Wholesale and retail demand, with cotton moving freely. Among higher pno?S for staples are those for cotton and cotton ' goods, which reflect immense sieeulation and good n-tual de mand, growing out oi the belief m a short croii. lienons uuu iew uneans nouses have tried to coroner October delivery are said to le confirmed by strong support from that market. heat closes higher on a bet ter exuort demand and continued lry weath er, although spring wneat receipts a -e very lartre. Winter wneat brands oi u ur are scarce and higher. Corn is firmer on n strieted receipts, and oats, coffee and coal are also higher, tne latter on continued pro- eress toward paying rates. Lower nrlees for steel bills rciiect the sub- siifcnee of the late furore lu the iron and steel trade, bt I Il.-ssemer pig in unchanged. Hides are lower, as is refined sugar, on in creasing demand for aud weaker tone of raws. Lard is slightly ofl, and pork is weaker but unchanged on free offerings at tho Wcit- KU liiuond Produce Market. i. tt. .. Vn,.f. ilairv. 1 '.Kb 'JO choice jtLlir...- ........ - V . i :i.. , ,..,i,.,.l i : . r .!:iirv 1 i 'n l" cnoice lrtinu. i . 'n . . . hoi.-e Inn- ( laeke.f 1. I no 1".; nieinuiii store ('packed i. ltl common grane, 10 n 12c. V.oos- In crates, near by an-l m I I t fr; il. :in t7c.: in crHti-s. iresn anu n an. bar- Is :ind b'lxes ( fr"sb . !" 1" ' poiLiRY Chi-kens (large;. (.cr pound. : die-ks ("livt )er pound, Xf 10 : -liens flive). pe- pound. small cm -eii-, per i. i. nd Ta:; ' ' vj, r iu-.ii, i. 3a .: roosters (old 1. l'Cff '(). apiece. Live Stock-(a! ves. per pound (gross i. (ab: she'i. per jMiund. La L'tr.; i- i fcows". per pound. 2rt-2):.c.: licisers. jr pound. .Va 4 .; young steers', per pound. & 4 -.: spring Iauits (.-noieei, per pouuu 4-.: hogs (small ), ier pound, firfiO . 1 rcKrAC( f ' i.. (a (ie. i ColMRV liAi o. liams (finan-. -moed. !r tiound. 12,1'al3 '.; larg- wejl-W.ll- , " . a iriii sides (cured. -mokeo, per pouno, P?r pound.! H'ei'J :: shoulders ( ......,' irn 71 c. moked), j-r Hides ask Tallow- Dry flint, per pound, lift I'.: dry salted. ier pound. y.VIO-.; green s-aited hides. (J ' ft 7c. ; green hides, 51 ft fie - green salted calf-skins. 60ft 75c. j taiiow, 3'(a4,'4c.: bswax. 25". Vi. iexables-Irish potatws. per barrel (drrgei. 1.25ft 1.50: small, 50ft. 75-'.; onions, fi. 25ft 1.50 fer barrel. .,.. 1 uv:ts Apples. per harrel, tL2oe.l.e; prs. i.J.6 2.00 per barrel. Richmond Tobacco Market. Sun-Cured Toba'-coLu t3 to 55; short leaf, ?7 to 10: long leaf. ?10 to 15 v, rap pers. ? 15 to 25. Bright Tobaccos smom-rs: orc.-n -n. - to 86: oedjnm. 7 to 9.J0: fi e. ' to tli: Cutters: Com mo d. 11 to ?13; medium, h to 18: See. f 22.50 to ?25: fancy. ?27.?0 to 30. Fillers: Common. ?3.50 to -i: rr.ed. u-:., .4.S0 to f5.50: good. 6 to : fine. Sift s, ?12. Srappr: Common. t12 to 15: m - diuai. -15 to 20: gCH.d. to 30. tine. ; it to 640: fancy, 25 to 50. Wrappers. Matiog- anv: Common, $12 to ?!.: medium. --20 to 22: go-d.t25 to 32. 50; line. f35 to ?40; fan- i-v. ia to 70U. Dark Tobacco Lugs, i2 to 44.25: short leaf. ?4-50 to 46.50; long leaf, 6 to r; se leetionsj 412 to 15. I f5ubscr.be for this aper, NO. 41. SOUTH CAROLINA COXVKNTIQX Important Constitutional Change I Under Consideration. j TUot constitutional convention, at Colam biajdevotod an entiraday to a discussion ol the tuvtion providing for a homestead law. Senator Tillman and ex-Governor ShepparJ ma.Je powerful speeches on the subject. The debate was of a higher class than any of th debates thus f ir. Ity a vote of ;82 to 44, tho convention struck out all the j special pro visions in th ociion as reported, leavn the section providing Cor a simple homestead exemption of 41,000 worth of real estate and $500 worth or personalty. The stricken out jvirion gave many special provision!", oaf. placing the control of such property 4h hands of th" court and virtually making the mai who ta';; s advantage of the exemption a minor. T ;re are still some eight or ten other amiib'ents pending. i "111" articl n pensl and charitable infti tutions pas 1 its reading after th killing of thesection providing for a Board of Itbu Charities. fhe following section of th article on fin a ice and taxation was adopted after a long discussion and several amend ments had b.-en put in. i I The C. -neral As-mbly shall provide by law for a u i.fonu anl e-pial rate of assess ment and taxation and shall prescribe such reginlations as shall secure a just' valuation iorjtaxati m of nil property, real, personel. and possess iry, except mines and mining elams, the jj.-viceed ot w lrich alone shall taxhl and alo such proi-crty as may les ei empliil by law for municipal- education, lit erary, sci eiliilc, ruligious or charitable pur pose's, provi l-d. however, that the General Assembly 1 i iy impose a capitation tax on smih dom s:i animals as from tUHr nature aui habits are destructive of other property p.xi'i proided further that the General A s'!ikll v may provble for a graduated tax on ini-bnies an t may provide for graduate! license on oecupations nod businesses. An effort by S-nator Tillman, to prOvida fori a 51 poll tax on every dos in the State. the proceed to be devoted to the s-fuod faiid afier a rich debate.was killed by a vote of 100 to 20. An elTort to t .lit A tax Oil the banks in the State faded. ' At Saturday's session the article on flnancr ana taxation was again taten up. anu pro vision was ptu in to exempt from taxatioti all educational, religious and haritable in stitutions when the protlts did not go to private gain. There was another long jdisf ie matter ns to how long State mission over I boiids should run, settled tho night previous by requiring that they should run "not less thi n 20 or more than 40 years,! It resulted inline minimum limitation being stricken; ou). Mr. M -Mahau's ordinance to establish a department of roads and forestry produced a lively debal j but was killed by a vote of CI to 47. ' . .: I ! 1 TIIKNASIIVILLE. AM) j WILMIMi- TON launciii:!). Fully O.OOO UeoDlo Witnessed thm Lauiiehlng. ! Kt Newport News. Va., on Saturday fully C.obo people witnessed the launching of tho Nashville and Wilmington, the new steel gun boats built by the Newport News Ship IiuildJ ing and Dry Dock Company. jThe Nashvillo slill from the ways at exaetlyj thirteen minutes to 10 oVIock.Mlss Emma Thorn psonj daughter of Hon. Joseph Thompson, ofj Nash ville.broaking the traditional champagne bottle a -ross her bows. ! I 'he Wilmington was launched at 11-Q8 ex aetiy , anu was ciirisicucu 17 auuo 1 . I 1... r!Ja l Citav. of Wilmington, (laughter of Senntor Gray. i . I ! The Wilmington's course, poo feet over! the wavs, was the longest ever taken oy any boHt launched on thisj-ontiuent. Iler spe.nl,,! u-i i'ii she struck the water, was 11 knot an hour. There was not a single linen in eitner ase. The lauindnng was aj near a iverie-ji. " ...I.. i i success as pos.su ne. . 1 1 1 I he. baniiuet. which billowed tne lauucn- im. tv:i .oie 01 111-1 luii'i nii'iiir. L-ind ever known here. The speeches were made 111 a very nappy vein aud all of the speakers took occasion toj k iv some very nice tilings auout 01c - ov.t News Shiovar 1. The pn-sence oi tlio ?orinj Mlautic suua Iron in tne river auueu k'vH leiil to the lnmressiveness oi tne occasion. Ti... two ciMibonts launened ar tne nrsi ,.r .bwi.Mie 1 entirely under Miereiary tier- .'""-"-'o . . Vk-K's administration. Th-y are esiieeliillyj il!.... ,l.i.l to meet the need lor small, easnjn liaindl" 1 an 1 ''cononiical draft to do policd !.ju in scii; ow. tronical ports nnd up Asiat Icirivers. th-.n relieving the large cruisers ofl J,rt for w hich tin-V are lll-litted. I hie Constructor llichborn planned to make them ...,1,.,..,wit.. ...iinn-r -sheathel veswls. so thaB thev 'would not be obliged, to resort fr ...;.r,.iiv to i-.. note dry docks, but. owing t . limitation of t!ie law. this could not n .... soul both th:; Wilmington and the. Nilshville an." all-st-d boats.- A Fire at the Kxposloti. there was considerable excitement on thej Mldwiiv at the exposition grounds l nesdaw afternoon. It wa occasioned by a fire started in tli" building occupied by the Oh No 'ro Pint.'itiou, oue of the .'ouc;ssbius oni the Midway, and th n caught !on the uucom tilet.nl arena of the I lagenback snow. J nns building was entirely dstroyed but a eon '-iderabh; portion of th plantation Inilldind wits saved. The buildings burned rapidly arid for awhile, on account of the wst wind it iwas feared the wholeMidw.lv wan doomed but the firemen finally succeeded in getting it 'under control and soon had it extinguish 'A. - 3 Killed and O Injured At Pittsburg, Pa., Sunday, ! three person were killed outright and nine others Injured by ft runaway trolley car on the West End leotrio line jumping the traok and going over an embankment. - The killed are Geo. 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