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PROVE ALL THINGS AMD HOLD FAST TO j THAT WHICH 13 GOOD." $l.oj) IV r Yepr la 4dvtce, vol. v DUNN, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 18J6 NO, Gbastca:i & Phi-man, Prt-pritttrs. i ' NORTH STATE G0LLIH6S. OCCURRENCES 'WORTH XOTINC I il'JI-I ALL O Vli.it Til C STATS. A Erother'of Mwyor Rutlcr Implicated Li the Robbery.' : Mention has been made of h.e con fession of S. "VY. Grier, former express r.;er.t at-Eoaeboro, and cf the arrest of hitisc-lf and cf M-tycr ite Iinom! Euiler yl Dr. Fleet Cooper, eh:.rgel. with robbing the' ex ores -- company of 833 D. Eraston Butler, brother of "Mayor liatler vra3 also arrested. Both But lers gave bond, but failed to appear at the hearing, and it is believed they Lave jumped bond and' iled. Grier .charges that" Mayor Butler planned the robbery and suggested it to Agent Grier, who -was to get 0-103 of tiie amount, which was paid Lira, while Lie others divided the remainder. . : -sheboroHa-3 an S1000 Fire.- A fire at Asheboro Monday destroved the large brick store cf E. A. Moffitt, the Barns Hotel, Bo; att k ili.ii irdson's drug fctore, Eritton iz S.tpp's luv office and two or three other buildings. The loss was over "513,000, .as fallows : E. A. Mcfutt, SI 0,000; Burns Ilotel, S3, 000; Bcyatt k likh'ardrfjoii, $3,003; Biittou k Sapp, several hundred. In surance not known. The entire stoek of drugs belonrnncr j Boyatt ;L- Richard-son and many valuable papers vero con Pruned. The Kepublican" paper, the Randolph Argue, og iher with the job oUr oi' Stout & Stout, was destroyed, its office being i.'ver Moffitt's stoiv. This is the severest the in the his tory of Asheboro. Tobacco Factory Rurned. The large tobacco factory of Mr. D. Gashill, at Salisbury, v: dtottoy ed by fire .Thursday morning. The fire started- on the fourth floor and W23 probably1 inecndi-iiy. though the origin is net krio'.va. The factor v con tained about 200,000 pounds of tcbao r.o really for tale and only about 100 b-osfs were saved. The building was the property of Mr. Anuio Gaskill and was insured to the amount of ;?5,000. Her loss is estimated at 83. 000, Mr. Gaski'.l war, nut eo fortunate. His stock was worth $-30,000 cr more, insured for $27,500. The loss is fully S2o,000. -ts Liucrly Ki-duci't to Ashes. Every olore in the tovn of Liberty, oh the Gipe Fear and Yadkin Valley railway was burned. Among the stores destroyed were those of Fill more, ra?i:nl, Grifin & Trogdon, Jel ley Orer xun, Frank Bowman, Moult k Patterson and David HoIIoway. Tlere were several other stores wiped out, including one of a firm from Elizabeth City, c.irryiug a 312,000 htock. HoJiiad.iv's li'verv stableS were !?ioycd. Tat) tt.-t.il k :s . r.;u'io:u- mates .$100,000. Conflagration at Rutherfordtoa. There was a considerable lite at Eutherforulon un Wedii.ibtv ni-ilit. The bnlldinffs burned were thosa of Cowan & Grayson, VasLburu's store house, Davis -it. Carson's store houe. the 1 sw ouice.ot 8. Galk-rt, the Hardin building, and the one occupied by E. Lane, besides a number of small build ings belonging to Col. C. L. Harris. The losses were very Leavy,'aucl pome of the parties had no insurance. le it ll! a 3lal Fit. William ?di!ler, one of Davis eoun y'ti mst popular and vrealthy citizens, iuring a lit of insanity shot his wife in -f be back with a sbofgua. She was luuaiug awar from him when he fired. !kr in juries are regarded as, .eerion--. Mr. Miller has revoral times recently' threatened t j kill hh, wife and children. : -. r TF: nkws o:t?. Dr. I-ee Tavne, a popnl.tr physician of Lesinjrtn. has move.l to Norfolk, A deposit of anthra rite coal has been found in Madison county, near Hot ogriugt, on the line of the Southern H dlway.' Esijerts pronounce the coal cf good qixality. It is stated that in Montgomery county a huge gold nugget that weighs tLiity-one pounds and sevea ounces, averdupoie, which would make it worth St' y 060, has been found. They are talking of having a naval d'-res. agricultural and business men's fair in "Wilmington next spring or fall, and a ten thousand dollar subscription for the purpose is being boomed. Eighteen car-loads of white people have gone .from 'Wayne, Duplin and Pender counties to work in the cotton mills at Eelser, S. C. They were in two special trains. None of them have ever worked in coiton mills. C C, Taylor, a youug man, was leaning from a passenger train on the Wilmington Short Cut, near Kenley, when his Lead was struck by an iron support of the bridge over Little Eiver and he was iustautlv killed. A f-pecial to the Ealcigh News and Ob Keryer says that he was originally from Guilford county, and that dining the holidays he had been driakinuhcavilv. Atlanta Greatly Benefitted. , mittee of the Atlanta Exposition, says tha exposition, when all delts are paid, will have cost Atlanta about $203,000, or less than 10 per cent of tha money expended on the i fair. This includes the criminal stoolr sub 1 eeriptioa, and the appropriation of the citv. - This result Is regarded as very satisfactory. It is estimated that the immediate benefit to ' Atlanta in money expended there by exposi tion visitors amounts to 63,000,000, and that the ultimate benefits to theeity and the cotton . States are Immeasurably beyond this or anv pi her eocsrvative figure that could be made. ' 1 U?nEME COURT DECISIONS. LRcpoita,! t7. Ferris. Butbee, 13., cf the rleisb Ear. State vs. Paymer Perkins (appellant) fron Pitt county. Opioa by rurci.es, J. 1. Tho Code, section 123t-, author ing pauper appeal?, requires an atl davitby 'the appellant tnat ho is ad vised by counsel that ho has reasona ble grounds of appeal; but thero xs no requirement that the name of the counsel giving the advice thould e set forth. 2. Where, in action cf bactardy, the defendant denied beiug the la ther of tho child, evideuco that the prosecutrix had had intercousj vith other men at the time tho child was begotten is admissible to contradict her statement that the defendant was the father of the child and that she had had intercouise vdth no other man. - Error. Bevers-ed. C. K. Byrd vs. C. II. Byrd, adnvr. (appeal by Lurtoh et a!.), fron Yancey county. Opin ion by Furch' s, J. Tha heirs have no right to have themselves made parties to an action cf account against the administrator of their intestate although they allege collusion and fraud between such ad ministrator and the plaintiff. Appeal dismissed. IIut-:h G7. (appeallant) vs. T. Jt Coffey, from Caldwell scanty. Opinion by Mont gomery, J. Whereas the act of 1S93. ch. 41.", providing for the f ole of the State's interest in tho Caldwell and Watauga Turnpike Co, by certain commission er.", directed that advertisement of sale should bo made on or before July 1, 1893, and that the property thould be sold not more than 30 nor less than 20 days from said date; Held, thut a sail of 6aid property on July 31, 1S93, is void. Affirmed: T. A. Love (appelant) vs. LeGraade Gre. from Uitchell county. Opinion by Tair- . cloth, C. J, Where the defence of adverse pos session was based upon the uncontra dicted testimony of a wi:ncs-, it was proper for the court to instruct the jnry that if they believed the witness, they would find for the defendant. Affirmed. Y7. E. Daniel. Administrator, vs. Petersburg Pviilroal Co., (appellant) frora HaSiTax county. Opinion by raireioth. C. J.1 Where decedent called at the depot of defendant company for.his baggage and on -account of abusive language used by him to the agent, was shot by agent;. Held, that the iiudlng of the jury that the agent wr.a acting in the line of his duty, renders the railroad company liable in -damages for dece dent's death. Affirmed. E. E. Gray, (appellant) vs. T. B. Bailey, Trustae, from Davie county. Opinion by Paircloth, C. J". Where an estate is giver to a man and his wife, they held by entireties: and a deed to such land executed by the husband alone, during coverture, is void. r Eeversed. Davie and vThittie (appellants) vs. VY. Blackburn et. al., from Stokes county. Opinion by Jlontsonaery, J. 1. Where a sheriff settled the t.xes due the State and county with his own money, the amounts due on the tax list belongs to him aud can bo collected withinithe time allowed by law. 2. But sucfi tax list is not tho nb icct of levy and attachment by a per sonal creditor of such fherifr. No error. i State vs. Cha.. Mize (appellant), from Alexander county. Coinicn fcy Fsr chC3, J. . The Code, section 31, iuj express terms confers upon the Justices of the "Peace jurisdiction to try bastardy enses commenced by the voluntary affidavit of the mother. Affirmed. t. W. Winstoa vs. J. C. Biggs (appellant), from Granville . county. Opiui;u hy .Montc-cmery; J. Where in a general deed of assign ment for the benefit of 'creditors, or.-; of such creditors held a prior security upon a certain part of the propel ty conveyed in taicl deed of trust; Held, that the doctrine of marshalling as sets applies. Affirmed. M. SI. Piippin vs. J. S. Fiippin. Ex'r, (ap . pellant), rom Stokes eounty. Opinion by Faircloth, C. J. Where the widow aud the execut ru by mutual consent had the year's sup port laid off under the provision of the will, and the tiling of the report of the pame, endorsed thereon, -We, the undersigned, having heard the fore going report read, do agree to same;' Held, that there being no evidence of fraud or undue influence, the widow is estopped from instituting proceedings for a vear's allowance under section 2129 of The Code. Erverred. (In the last publication of digests, this cr.se was headed, "State vs. Mize," the dicrest of the latter case beiug omitted). IKOX AND STEEL. The Situation Said to be a Waiting One. The-Americam Manufacturer, in an edi torial, says: The opening week of the new year Cuds the iron and steel trade in about the most Inactive condition noted for some months past. The buying Eide 13 apparently waitin.ar for still lower priee3 and holders claim that rock bottom has been reached. There has been nothing like a etampede in prices, but every change made for somo weeks past has been in th way of reduction. The movement of the n. C. Friek Coke Company in raising the price of furnace coke to 52 may have some effect in checking the downward course of prices in the iron trade. In ail brandies of the iron and steel trade this week the general situation is a waiting one. As prices now stand some lines are closely approaching; the figure of a year ago. LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. Important Happenings, Both Horns and Foreign, Briefly . Told. Newsy Soutnern Notes. The tomb of President Monroe at Richmond, ' Vr., has been robbed of the tilver plate bearing the date of his birth and death. Mr. Kenton C. Murray, editor of the Norfolk Va., Landmark, and superintendent of publio schools for the rid-y of Norfolk, died at his resi dence in that city on Monday. Thf Htle village of Liberty, about 60 miis from Greensboro, N. C.,ha3 been almost entirely obliterated by fire. Every store in the town and a number cf dwelling houses and a livery stable were burned. Two' Protestant ministers were elect ed chaplains of tha Maryland Senate. A Baptiblican Senator claimed recog nition lor the Catholics, so Eev. Wm. Brick, ;of that Church, was. added to the list. One compensation is to be divided between them. A special from Meridian, Miss., says that Sheriff Duval, of Jones county, wa3 found bound and gagged in his office lind the safe robbed of $8,000. He says a number of masked men" did the job. Their trail has been found and a strong posse with blood hounds are in pursuit. Marycr King, of Atlanta, has re ceived a letter from Philadelphia in re gard to the Liberty Bell, which the city conneilmen think is a slap at that city. Mayor King had arranged for the return of the bell by the route ovt,r Tvbich it came. Ths Philadelphi a's write that they will come and get it and take it back by another route. Northern News Notes. Twenty oil-burning locomotives have been shipped by the Baldwin Lo co motivo Works to the Eussian gov ern menti It is reported that ox-Gov. Camp bell, of Ohio, as the result of a fortu nate miniug speculation in California, will soon came into possession of great riches. He has for several years been very poor. The- estafia of the late Eugene Field is valued at $25,000, all in personal property. Besides this there is the poet'e home, valued at $10,000 to $20, 000, which he had conveyed to his wife some time before his death. The Philadelphia street railway com pany has announced that during the New Year all new men who are taken on must sign an agreement that they will belong to ino labor organization. This may pause a continuance of the 6trike. The little children of the United States have sent a $500 check to Mr.. Lawson, erf The Chicago Record, aa their contribution to the fund for a monument to tho late Eugene Field. Field's fame i3 secure; it is in the hearts of little children, where it will bloom eternally, says the Atlanta Con stitution. t Washington. It is said that Russia has offered a gold loan of 60,000,000 roubles to the Ucilerl States. President Cleveland has appointed tho Venezuelan Commission as follows: David J. Brewer, of Kansas; Richard H. Alvey, of Maryland; Andrew D. White, cf New York; Frederick R. Coudert, of New York; Daniel O. Gil man, of Maryland. Secretary Herbert has given out a statement regarding the battleship Texas. He concludes by saying that the Texas will bo sent to a navy yard, and all the deficiencies pointed out will be remedied, and when this is done she will be a first class ship. Foreign. Tho Paris Estafette, in an article treating of the Venezuelan dispute be tween Great Britain and the United States, suggests that France, Germany and Russia might intervene to settle the trouble. Important documents have been found in the archives of the Vatican at Rome relating to tho Catholio missions in Venezuela. These documents show that the missions within the territory claimed by Great Britain were included in the diocese of Caracas prior to Great Britain acquiring Guiana. A dispatch from Constantinople, says that the Porte has consented to accept the offer of the foreign repre sentatives at Constantinople that the foreign-consuls at Aleppo mediate be tween the Turks who are besieging Zeitouu and the Armenians who hold the tovrD, for the surrender of the latter. Miscellaneous. Wednesday, January 1st, the colored people throughout the' country cele brated their emancipation. Storms and rlood3 have done great damage to life and property through out the country during the past week. Carl Schurz's Idea. At a regular meeting of the chamber of commerce of New York, Carl Smurz sub mitted a resolution that the president of tha chamber appoint a special committee of members, of whom the president shall be one, to oonsider the expediency of an effort to be male on its part, in conjunction with similar organizations, in the interest of in ternational peace and good understanding, and to propose a joint committee to be com posed cf citizens of the United States and England, to be presided over by some naa of eminent at iiity to be agreed upon by both side?, the commission, to bo considered aa an advisory coan 'ii. It was adopted. THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS I , j v. A Synopsis cf the Proceedings of Goth Houses. I , 'i THE SSXiTS. j On ilouiay the Senate in executive session refused to pass tho joint resolution intro duced by Mr. Ccekxell providinar for anj ad journment until January Cth. After the ?on flrmatica of a large n umb; r of nominations agalns5 which no objections Lad been m&, the matter came up cn the suggestio4 of Senator IliO. of New York, and Senator Berry, of Arkansas, bolh,ci whom said (hey tbcaht Congress, in view of the message of the President, oaht not to take a recesof for any length of time. Mr. Ii;H made aepeleea iar which . ho went over much of the grohnd of his speech tho oxher day. He called ubou his associates to stay here -nd endeavor to pass soma legislation that would giyodhe Treasury relief. Mr. Hill was reminded that voicing ihe President had ased could belgot through the Senate and it wa3 uonstn;4 to ask tho Senate to stay and make an etigrl to do that which everybody knew was impos sible. In view, hovrover. cf the objections that bad bee,n made, Mr. Cookrell wiibdrew his resolution, and the Senate adjourhed for the day. In the Seaaio on Tuesday a resolution vas introduced instructing tho finance commiittee to report an amendment to the House reve nue bill providing for an additional duty! on raw sugar equal to the proposed increas on other articles; a bill was introduced to daa cel United States legal tender notes. The remainder cf tho time was devoted to (the diseussijn of the financial question, jfhe Senate adjourned until Friday. For over five hours on Friday the Senate was in a turmoil of a Suaneifj discussion; A resolution was introducod declaring it t be the senso g? the Senate that bonds shalljnot be eo! under private eontrar-t; the resolu tion is siiii uuOnbhed business. The Seiate adjourned until Tuesday. s I TEE HOUSE. I Maijymore members of the House were present in their seals Tuesday thaa wero, ex pert id to hear tho journal of Saturday's pro ceedings read and to vote in favor oftthe motion to adjourn until Friday. That con stituted tho entire programme of business and the . session lasted just 12 minutes. About 10 membora were on the iloor. Tho House re-assembled'.on Friday under the arrangement heretofore announced, for the purpose of adjourning: until Monday Speaker Eeed announced that he had signed the biil to aceept the ram Katahdin, and then aijournmsnt was taken. i SENATE KE-OilGANiZATIONl XJtali Soon to Become a State. Some Republicans Kick Out of Harness. A dispatch from Washington to the Char lotte News and Times says : The reorgani zation of the Senate committees has beenj all arranged and thisweek the Republicans JevIII take charge, but it is not certain whether they wiil elect the officers of the Senate until later. President Cleveland will, on January 4th. issue his proclamation declaring Utah a State, and the Republican expect its legisla ture, which will Jcouvene on the 6th, to eject two lie lublican" Senators at once. They may wait for tha arrival of those two Sena te rs electing the ofSoers of the Sanate. They have made a deal with the Populists, ibut they are still afraid to trust too much1 to them. " I' Representative Johnson, of CaliT-rnia, Is one of the Republican members of the House who openly kicked against the bend fand tariff bills forced upon tho majority oftthe House by the will and power of Speaker Reed. Mr. Johnson voted for the tariff bill unider protest, but he with forty-six other Republi cans refused to vote for the bond bill, wMch hs declared gave t'uo lie to every principle and precept of the Republican party, and in doing so he said: "Against my wiif. against my protest, I voted for a bill (tariff) wliieh in my judgment was unnesessary, which in my judgment was not a Republican measure, which in my judgment did not meet the case, whio'a in my judgment was not what we were sent here to do. Let us bo consistent Hth our record. Let us stand by the rule wljich we adopted many years ago, that we Vyiil not issue bonds iu time of peace." Senator Voorhees says ho doesn't see'the neod for upsetting the" business of the coun try by a prolonged debate on the tarifflbiil that has passed the House, and that he will endeavor to get the bill to a vote a3 sooa aa possible." j The Senate committee on Finance will take up the bill at once, and of its action Senator Voorhees, who wm chairman of the com mittee under tho Democratic organization of the State, said: "I think the bill wiil be? re ported back to the Senate almost immedi ately. Bat, then, you can't tell what $vill happen. There are some crumbs lying around, and every protectionist i3 afterf all ha can Kpt. There is no disposition oa the part of Democrats to delay action on thecal. If delay coms it wiil bo from the oilher side." Senator Voorhees, is of course, strongly opposed in the bill. f .It i3 generally believed that another bpnd issue will shortly be announced, 'but Secre tary Carlisle wili not discuss the matted for publication. y THE DEBT STATEMENT. A Surplus for Last Month, But a De ficit for the Last Half Year, j The debt statement issued Thursday shws a net decrease in the public debt, I?ss caslf ih the Treasury, during December of 61,179,i9. The interest-bearing debt is unchanged, yhe non-interest-bearing debt decreased $558,535. And cash in the Treasury increased $620,814. The balances of the several classes of cfebt at the close ci business, Ddcetnber 31st w$ret Interest-bearing debt, 6747.461,060; debt? on which interest has hich interest has ceased ' since maturity, 1,674,510; debt tearing no interest, 5376,-' UJ,332; total. 1,125,525,462. ' i 51 2SS. The certificates and Treasury cotes offset by an equal amount of cash in, the Treasury outstanding at the end of tho month wfere 563,023,673, a decrease of ei4,S64,000, The total cash in tho Treasury was 57S7,573,4117. Tho geld reserve was ?63,262,C3. Net cash balance eil4,7G4.C32. la the month there was a decrease in gtold coin and bars A 13,500.237. the total at he close being C113,ll!3.'707.' Of silver thore'Vas a decrnase cf 70i.lS6. Of the surplus thWe was in national t ank depositories 14.27lS0 against 614,413,303 at the end of the preced ing montii. The Treasury on-eial state ment of receipts and expenditures was ifsaed Thursday. - The receipts for December were 625.253,937 irfd the expenditures 625.614. 517, showing a sur plus for the montii of 6474,620. For the first six months of tiv Ss.-al year the receipt' were 61C7,:.5?.0:- and tho exfendiuirc-f 182.862,7 '.O, maiiii? the Jviieit 6I5.:J'J'J.fu7. As compared with the lx-t H-c:il year !tfthe at the same p.ri-vi customs le-.-eipts shotva.a increase oi 6l3.00i",000 and'-intefuul revl-jbu. receipts a decrease oi S-l.OOO.Oco.. Expendi tures show a d'rereaso for th- sfno perioS of S4.OJO.00O ot w!:U-h ei,eCtf.y---0i- in pensions and 3,000.000 in usvy esl.u iishment. l"l:c wa ej:reuditures ha ine -eased Si.OO-JtOCO and the interest aroui nearlv 68.00(4000 wall th -.ivii exr.enOitaro.- have deere-ied 65.0uO.PC0. Olhe'r itctcsshew slight -L.-.ai:es, making up the ameiva-V?. An Iraportaut Decision Against Trusts in Missouri.. In the Circuit Court at C'.ivton. So.. ' -i w Judge Hin:el overruled the demurrer of jjths national ieaa company to tnc answer oflthe S. E. Grote Paint Company, ;of this city. Under this decision it wiil be lmpossiblfor any trust or combination o sne for money due on merchandise sold on credit in that State. Some of the .brightest legal taleat in nv country appear'.! ia tue case. BEaT BRITISHERS Jameson's Invasion of the Transvaal Quickly Arrested, COMPELLED- TO SURRENDER. Tlio "Enslisli Invader TTere Snrronnded "by a Larjie Force of Eurs&ers and Alter a Fierce riglit Were Defeated Gr jnany Sympathtaas With the Sturdy South African Itcpublic. A great sensation bas t een caused through out the world, but especially in Europe, by the difficulties culminating in a pitched bat-; tie, that have arisen in the Transvaal. South' Africa, between the Boers and the Uitlandv crs, or Aliens, because of the large interests of Europeans engaged in tho gold mines of th 9 Republic. Dr. Jameson, tha admintsirator of the British South Africa Company, lei sevea "hundred armed men, with Maxim and ether' guns, into the Transvaal to assist the Uit laaders, or foreign residents of that Repub lic, to enforc3 their demands that they be pranted equal polical righi3 with the Boers. The Right Hon. Joseph Chambpriain, Secre tary cf State for tha Co'onics, ordered the immediate return of this foray to British territory. Dr. Jameson's Invasion was in response to a long appeal from the Uitland crs, " s A dispatch received at the British Foreign Office ia London announces tbat an engage ment took place between Dr.-Jameson's force and the Boers, and that the former was com pelled to surrender. It was sent by Sir Jacobus A. de JVet, th British Agent at Pre toria, the capital of the South African Re public. ' The following dispatch was received from Sir Hefsules Robinson, Governor of Cape Colony: "A messenger overtook Dr. Jameson tea miles the other side of the Elans Rivet-. Tha messenger brought bacfe a verbal message that the dlspatones received by Dr. Jameson would be attended to. The force was sad dling up. and at once proceeded eastward. Dr. Jameson thi s received and disregarded both my messages." The messenger referred to by Sir Hercu les Robinson wa3 one who wa3 sent to Dr. Jameson with orders instructing the latter to return to British territory and to abandon his progressive movement against the Boers. The Cape Tirne3 has a dispatch from Pre toria saying that the hv est news from Kru gorsdorf was to the effect that there had been fightinsr between the Boers aud the force led by Dr. Jameson, and that the lat ter had suffered heavily. The British agent at Pretoria telegranhed that he had seen General Joubert, Com manding? General of the Boer forces, who reported that Dr. Jameson had been driven from several positions. Twenty-two burghers were wounded, and twenty-three prisoners were taken. At that time no force- had moved out of Johannesburg to as-ist Dr. Jameson. A later dispatch from Pretcrla says that Dr. Jameson was surrounded by a large force of Boers, near Krugersdorx, and was obliged to surrender.' Tha Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the British Colonies, sent a despatch to Governor Robinson, say ing: "1 regret that Dr. Ja-reson's dis obediense has led to a dep.orab e loss of life. Do your best to secure generous treat ment of the prisoners and tha wounded." Editor Hess, of the South Africa Critic, announeed that he had a cable des catch re ferring to the recent events at Johannes berg, sent since Dr. Jameson's defeat, and of such a grave nature that ho dechaes to pubisb. it until confirmed from other sources. Mr. Hess has had a long experi ence in the Transvaal, and his previous news regarding the present crisis in affairs there has all been accurate. During the course of "an infprvievv he was quo.ed as saying: "If Johannesberg is the same town I know, the city has risen and h;is either succeeded or failed in an attempt to literate Dr. Jameson. I am satisfied that all the foreigners there, including tho Americans, would help tha English. There are practically no Boers at Johanncsberg. except the . armed burghera wiio ar parading the streets." The Evening Standard said it was vn-ncred that Dr. Jameson was shot after a dram head coui-martial. Indignation ia Germany, The statement that Germany had officially inquired of Great Britain what steps tha latter Government Intended to tace inresrard to the invasion of the Transvaal by the Erit ish South Africa Company is confirmed. A despatch from Berlin says that the Emperor has seat the following cable despatch to Paul Krnger, President of the South African Re public: ''I pxprrss my sincere congratulations that, supported by your people, and with out appealing for help to friendly Powers, you havo succeeded by your enerstt-tie action against tf;o armed bauds which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, and have thus b?en enabled to restore peace an i to safeguard the independence of your country against attacks from outside." Sir Ellis Ashmead Bariiett, member of the British Parliament, announces that ha has received information that German sailors have landed at Delagoa Bay. Calls were issued in Ham burg. Cologne and Berlin for mass, meetings to express publio sympathy wi h the Boers, and similar meetings are being organized in other places. Ex-Governor Peters offers Dr. Leyds, the Secretary of Sta.e of the Transva d, who is now in Berlin, tea thousand volunteers. Sev eral ambassadors at Berlin have congratu lated Dr. Leyds on the Boer v.ctory. Tho newspapers demand that Dr. Jameson shalf be hanget. Hamburg offers to subscribe $ia.',C03 for the wounded Boers. Subscriptions are bcingraised in Germany on behalf of tho Boer3 wounded in the en gagement with Dr. Jampson'3 force at Kruersdor.. The sum cf S25.00J has al ready been collected. Attitade of European Papers. The London Standard say3 that Emperor. TTilliam's message is a strikingly unfriendly act. It raises the presumption that hswisae3 to either challenge or destroy Brilis i suzer ainty in the Transvaal. Great Britain can not and will not tolerate the slightest inter ference between the Transvaal and herself. Tho paper dilates upon German hostility to Great Britain everywhere. The London Chronicle says: "The Em peror's message comes near being aa offer of armed assistance." Tue London Times says: '-The Emperor's message is of very grave import. All the available evidence' show3 that he intended to give unqualified recognition to the Transvaal as aa inde pendent State." The London Morn ing Pest iraws the deduction from Emperor William's telegram that His Majesty considers a war with Great Britain within the limits of possibililv. and that he r as settled -the preliminaries with a view thereto. The Post advisea Great Britain to concentrate a fleer by recalling tha ilediter ranean squadron now in the Levant to Join the Channel squadron. The Paris press are jubilant over the de feat of Dr. Jameson and his followers by the Boers near Johannesburg. Tha Bappei say3 that Germany, France and Russia are in aeeor.i, am ask3 what England will do in tho circumstances. ''Having the United States already oa her hands." "the paper asks, "will she dare to defy the mili tary Powers of Europe?" The Ltmternt sayg: "Great Britain's contention that for eign Porera have no right to intervene in the Transvaal is neither more nor less than the application cf the M-;nroe doctrine, pure fUldjiinpIto her fiwaalTaaJase. BOERS The Gsrmau tsaoers uost ulthout Pxeet Moa favor the Boers and tha aitUudb of thsir Emperor, -j SOUTH AFRICA'S CRISIS - Tha Troubles in thieTransvaalKetirwa the' lioera and the Aliens. The South African Republic. al?Q knowa a3 the Transvaal, was or!gnby formed by part of the Boer?, who left th Capei Colony for Nata, but quitted that colons cn Us an nexation to the British Crown. In JS52 tho independence of th Transvaal wa -recognised. The legislative power of the State fs now vested in. a first and second Yolkn-aa"! en, of twenty-four members each. To jthe first Chamber only thosn born in tha colony can be electa !, while alioa. who are saturalisad and own property in t'e State can be elected to the second Chamber, whose func tions are chiefly for losal affairs, however. The President of the Republic is PaulF. Eraser, known exclusively ampng the Boers as Oom Paul, or Uncle Paul, and h ia occupyiug his position now for the tb'rd term. He is nearly eighty years of ase, has carried the musket almost continuously, and throueh many troublous easonp, acainst Enslish aggressions. Of a rugced exterior, cntutorad as regards education, he has shown a rapacity for government that has been n catch for the most finished diplo macy and statecraft. Oa the one t and, he has had to deal with the Boers, primitive and unproere-sive: on the other hand, a larger population of intelligent and speculat ing English, who represent tha mining in terests, and are for ousting old cojnditions completely and establishing a new stale of thing3 to suit their own interests.! It was for the conservation of tbe Snterest3 of the mining c'ass that President! Kruirer induced the first Volksraa I to establish a second Chamber to which they cokld send their representatives, the Yolksraad proper havine. however, the power ot veto. Bad blood has long existed between the conser vative Boers and the English. The latter have not forgotten tha rebellion o the Boers in 1SS0, when thev drove out their hereditary foe3, inflicting at HajnbaHill one of the most disastrous defeats recorded in England s an nals. NEW DESTROYER FOR UNCLS SAM. A Torpedo Boat That Can Move Under Water at Will. - In the ship yards of the Columbia Irom v7orks, at Baltimore, Md.,is an engine of de struction which is ?spected to be more for midable in navy warfare tbaa England'3 greatest battleshio. It is a submarine tor pedo boat, which is being constructed under contract ior tne united states uoyernmenr by the Johu P. Holland Toroedo Boat Com- pany. At erst it was designed to havo tms boat ready for launching early in April next, but owing to the Venesue an issue orders bava been given, it is said, to finish the vessel as rapidiy as possible. If the vessel performs all that is promised 6ho will accomplish fully sHventyj-uve per cent, more than any submarine vessel ever built. Her dimensions will be: Length, 80 feet; diameter at maximum widthJ 11 leer; displacement light, or floating on' the sur face 118.5 tons; with superstructure awash, or with only her turret showing, 137.84 tons; totally submerged, 133.5 tons. The vessel is exuected to have a reserve buoyancy, or ten dency to rise, ot 66-100 tons when a-sras a, aud 57o pounds when lying stm under watpr. When the boat is running at full speed on thu surface she must ireaca a depth of twenty leas wit tun one given to dive. minute after the order i3 Automatic arrangements must be placed so as to ke-p the vessel from sinking below a required depth. There are, besides, conditions regarding the storage of ammunition; for steering a fixed course beneat a the waves; for supply ing air to the crew; for escape of ttie crew ia event of serious damage to the hull, and for a hundred other derails. Tee cost must not exceed 6159.0C0, and the inventor expects to complete her for less than $140,000. Her armament, whieh will consist; of auto mobile torpedoes ana two expulsion air tubes, with the plant necessary to - operate them, will be supplied by the Government. The expulsion tubes, eight inches in diame ter, fired by compressed air, will send a 150- pound projectilo ECO feet. In the! war be tween Japan and China, it is reported, autc mobile torpedoes costing 8000 (damaged Chinese war vessels to the amount of 4,- 000,000. When completed, tha new destroyer will outwardly be a cigar-shapsu stee shell, v. ith a small turret ru-1 a smokestack j just for ward of tbe centre. Each of the ends will be covered with tips of slid mangaueka bronze 5 feat 8 inches ia length. Triple expansion enztns propsl twin Bcrew?, and steam will be usei entirely when the vessel is running oa the sur.raca or when awash. Ia submersed trip3 electricity from storage batteries. wi!l form ti e motiva power. The vessel will not depend enl ir$ly on tha introduction of water to descends She i3 provided with vertical screws for einkint; perpendicularly when she is at rs When steaming at full speed she can dive oblique ly beneath the waves, by means of her hori zontal rudders, which can be piaeuJ at any desired angle ia a few seconds. Between the smokestack and the turret i3 a small water-tight tube, which earie3 a tel escopic camera lucida, through whici the captain can note everything on the surface for miles around hi3 vessel, while the craft herself is three feet underwater. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS The Venezuelan commission has been organized by the election of Judge Brewer as president. Ex-Speaker Crisp says that in the lighH of the London Chronijcle's dis- patches he doe3 not see how Englani disputed frontier. can insist on her claim to the territory on the Venezuelan The House pension bill will call for S137.900.000 avnronration, bains a de crease of about two tniuiori from that of the current fiscal dollars year. Dr. James Edmund Reeve?J the emi nent bacteriologist and contr butor to medical literature, died cancer of tbe liver, at Chattanooga, Tenn. Saturday of his home in UTAH NOW A STATE. The President's Proclamation Admit- ting Her Into the Uoion. Utah wo3 admitted to the sisterhood of States on Saturday when President Cleveland signed the proclamation to that effect. There was no ceremony about the mt.tter. Mr, Cleveland and Private Secretary Thurber were alone in the President's off! :e at the time and the tiunlns: wa3 done with a steel fctub pea point affixed to a woodenj pen-hold er. Tho pen ana pea-noiaer were presented to Governor West, of Utah, who came to the White Hjuse aoat the time the proclama- tioa was signed. The Japanese Parliament wa? on ?ned and the Emovror sent in a message ot congratu- latiourer the result of the war with Chiaa, SEW KAVAli DESTSOYEE. VENEZUELAN COMMISSION CLEVELAND APPOIN TS FIVE STRONG MEN. They Will Inquire Intothfc Boundary Line. Short Sketches Lives. of Their y The President Wednesday announced the i composition of th Venezuelan1 commisaioa, which will consist of five members, a fol lows: - , j David J. Brewer, of Kansas, associate justice of the Supreme Court bf the United States; Richard H. Alvey, of Maryland, chief of Columbia; Andrew D. White, of New York; Frederick R. Coudert. of New York; Daniel C. Gilmanjof Maryland, president of the John Hopkin3 University. Judge Brewer, the leading member of the commission, was born In $myrna, Asia Minor, in 1S37, his father at that time being one of the Ameiiean missionaries in that part of the world. He Is a graduate of Yale and a nephew of David Dudley Field, in whose office ia New York city Judge Brewer was a a law student. In tbe year 1S53 Judge. Brewer removed from New Ycjrk city to the West, where he engaced iu the practice of hi3 professson in Kansas City, Mo., aud aiterwards in Leavenworth jEaps. He has also occupied various important positions, ln- (!nrtini thnsn nt hiricrn -of tha first ludicial circuit of the State cf Kansas, and from 1870 until 1831 filled the office of judge of the Kansas Supreme Court. Judge Brewer has also taken great interest ia educational afflairs and was at ono timo president of the Kansas board of education. jn 'politics he has been a j Republican. He was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of tho President Harrison in 1390. j Daniel C- Gdman is distinguished as aa educator, j He is a graduate ot Yale College and has been an extensive traveler in Europe where he paid great attentioalto the several political and educational conditions of vari ous countries. In 1S75 he was elected the first president of the John Hdpkins Univer sity, in Baltimore. Among the many works that ho has written is a mdmoir of James Monroe, which was prepared for the Ameri can Statesmen edition. His fame as a scientist and historianis world-wide. Mr. Gilman U said not to be affiliated with any political party, butihis tendencies are Inclined to the Republican organization. He is a native of Connecticut, and iu hi3 65th year. Frederick R. Coudert is the head of the law firm of Coudert Bros., of New York city. Ho bus a world-wide reputation a3 an advo cate and an authority oa international law. Ho served with distinction ou the Behring sea commission, and was complimented by tho President of the French Republic for bis speech before tho commissio i and was en tertalned at the palace. He Is a Democrat and i3 classed as auti-Tamnany. He is a brilliant orator and a shrewd tdvocate. Andrew Dickson White, o! New York, is also distinguished ns au educator. Ha li a native of New York, bavini: been born at Homer,1 in -that State, Iu November, 1882. He i3 of New England paientage and a graduate of Yale University. He was presi dent of tlio Republican State convention Of New York! iu October, 1861, aud was United States minister to Germany from 1879 till 1831. Mri White was. also onb of the United States commissioners to Santa Domingo and aided in preparing the report of the commis sion Mri White was for a bfief period un 6r "Mr." j Harrison'3 administration, the American minister to St. Petersburg. Judge Richard Henry Alvey is a native of Maryland; He was on the judiciary commit tee of the constitutional convention of 1867, .i . i . i ..v.i... : j J r .Ua . . I. uuu wits eieciuu uini juuga ui uw iuuuu eircult under tho new constitution, aud was reflected in 1882. He was) designated by Governor! Hamilton as chief justice of the Court ofj Appeals of Maryland to succeed Judge Bartolv. This place hd resigned to ac cept the office of chief justice of the Federal Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia. This court had just been criated by act ot Congress and President Cleveland strongly urged Judge Alvey to taki the place of chief justice and organize the new court. Upon the death of Chief Justice White, dur ing Mr. Cleveland's first teifni, some of the justices of the Supreme Court, who had been impressed witn tne opinions aeuverea oy Judge Alfey on the appellate bench of Mary- land, urweu trio rresiaent : to appoint htm :hief justice of the United States. This the President! was disposed to do but, it Is under stood, was deterred by the fact, so it has been said that Judge Alvey, la a Southern man and It was feared that for that position to go to the South might create animosities. Tramps and Train men. Advices from Archer, Tia., tell of a des- perate battle on a Plant syate m freight train, between tramp3 who wero stealing a ride, aud trainmen. When the trainmen tried to make thetramps Wve the t rain they refused to go ana opened lire Brai kemaa Jones was killed, Brakemaa Ja?ksd n badly wound- ed and the conductor shot in the bead. TUe the train and tramps then jumped from escaped. I Posses arc in pure! hit. Would Impeach I owler. , of Louisiana, Mr. Bqataer, Democrat, offered hi tho Houso a resolution looking ta the impeachment of Comp t roller Bowler, of the Treasury, for refusing to execute the laws of Congress in tne meats foi sugar bounty. matt er of tbe pay-. bt. 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The Democratic Banner (Dunn, N.C.)
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