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VOL VI. j DUNN. N., C. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 29. 1896- .. j NO. 17.
OTEB'S FIRM TROGHA.
Ths Strongest Spanish Line Yet
Stretched Across Cuba.
SOLDIERS SUCCUMBING TO HEAT.
All tho -Available Spanish Troop Are Be
ing: Vsttd tu TTaintaln a Wall of Men
Across tlie Xarrovrest Part of tlie Island
Value of tli3 liafrier Frctn a Military
Standpoint Hospitals Crowded.
Havana. Cuba, April 21. General Weyler
Las succeeded in accomplishing what Mar
ti:;?;: Campos attempted in vain. He has
t.u'itt a trc.a across the island and kept it
intact f-ir tw weeks. Thtf. the present
trocha isTFcrmidaUo even the insurgents ad
mit, but they profess that it alarms them not
j.tn!!.'
When ??;:''.-) pr.sed through Havana
tr vince to tho vrot. and Weyler stationed
10,003 men along tho' twenty-one miles from
?i trlel on the north const to Majana on the
F rith., he oau lto Madrid announcing that
i ho : second ia command of . the insurgent
f -uves was. pnnc 1 1:71 in the westom prov
ince. After st-ikin.T hi reputation on the abso-irr.ro-sibil
ty of Maftco's crossing, ho
f.i-.indthai do:a?heJ parlies ol from ltiO -to
1 -0 iiivargoats wore getting through the line
r. I v.'i'. i.
)li then rroushi all the troop? from other
r - of the island that could be spare J,
ivic. tin eastern and middle provinces
;-:t!i iws baro'y suSIeien:: for garrison
::.:ty, and Frantically suspending active
i.:..-ations in all but the western province.
h'- voBceru ration raised the force on the
re -'ia to 23,020, and gave 5000 more for use
in flying coluraus, acting in conjunction
v it 1 tho. T c.i the line. The troops were set
vork erctu-g forts, digging trenches and
. ;i -ling barricades.
Yli work has ben. pushed night and day,
m i the bost trocha Spain has evor built in
"aba now confronts Maceo. Through the
i!iy country south from Marie redoubts
l ivj baen built for artillery upon every emi-
Between Gunnajuay and Artemisia, along
:',!. middle part of the line, fort3 and block
- vises, with earthworks between, have been
i nstructed. From Majana to the south
r.vt, through marshy land, is a broad ditch,
'-icked by stockade, with block houses at
.i:t;rvaiS.
CUBAN INSURGENTS REPULSING SPANISH CAVALRY.
Gsneral Arolus, who is in command of the
0 rs on tho line, saj-s the insurgents can
i: ot cross without tremendous losses. Tho
"-opsnre under arms .night and day. but
;;j jgh they have waited two weeks Maceo
cs not attacked tho line.
This fact h s raise! a question as to the
'"imo oi the lin from a military standpoint .
r.- maintain its strength at all points leaves
:o.Iy a few thousand men who can
i:?ed in aggressive opperations.
riaces own force?, with those of Bandera
Delgado, number about 15,000 men.
- ' y hava been in the hillsaround Lechuza,
tiit en miles west of the trocha, for two
Ni'imwhil?, the main body of Spanish
'i . 1 holi's the trocha. Maximo Gomez has
-pw- L tho situation and has directed
III reo to rcxain in Pinar del Rio province,
-ev s-a! large insurgent columns have been
..I. r- 1 in: Havana' province from east.
One of ti e-i o'vumns, numbering 6300 men
:r'v.i a-i-iti go province, has arrieved. and is
uoA- u"r.r Oaivican, twenty miles south of
tlili- uiiy.
:v'r: s rvs l:o is satisfied to have Maceo
r ) jia iu ;!t3 M estern province, as it keeps
-"'.' ) :ip iaiards stationed on the line and
1 iw ills th-m from interfering with opera
':'::3 in other parts-of the island. Gomez is
"'.id to "oj willing to have the Spanish troops
(:. !i ilia line until. the rainy season sets in,
y which time they will find it a very un
ii -l:iiy spot." Reports are already being re
ceived" oi Spanish soldiers - succumbing to
:h lioat, anl between the wounded and the
i.U there ara fully 15,003 now in hospitals
the island.
DISTRESS IN CUBAN TOWNS.
Concentration of Population Adds to Dan
cer of Famine.
IUVAXA, Cuba, April 21. The situation In
Cuba is heart-rendincr. The poverty is ap
Fl'ing. Famine stalks through this naked,
.lvsolatelanJ.
The bread question will presently become
important as the political question. Prep
arations for relieving the suffering of the
kon-eombatants must soon be made. Women
"ad children from the interior continue'to
fle to the United States on every steamer.
The benevolence of Americans will soon
tested or thousands will starve, for every
thing is-being put to the torch. Before long
nothing' will be left of a once smiling
country but ashes. - ' -
Reports come from all part3 of the island
n' much distress resulting from the concen
tration of the population in the cities and
the desertion of the fields.
A letter from Cartagena says the- people
in a terrible condition. There is no work
the men and little iood. In Trinidad fish
fells for thirty cents a pound and meat has
increased two and one-half cents, a pound,
in Sancti Spiricus charcoa', formerly forty
rzts a ba?, is now $1.4 . All food has ad
v meed equallv in ..price. In Sitio Grande
any families are living in tents erected in
tha middle of the street?.
A Blow to the North Pole Story.
A dispatch from Christiana says that tha
Governor of Yakutsk reports officially that
the inhabitants of Ust-Yansk have not heard
anything about Dr. Nan3en, the Arctio ex
plorer, who was recently reported to be re
raing after having discovered the North
i'o.e. The Governor, adds that the ivory
seekers on the new Siberian Islands did not
see any ship between May and November of
fcstyear.
Patriots' Day Celebrated.
Patriots' Day, in commemoration of the
Li" Hp, f . : l lV-u4
it eaUiusiaam ttughont New Englaad.
TVVO NAME RUSSELL,
State
Conventions In 3Iai3chniiH
and
It hod e Island Indorse Him.
At Boston. Mass., Ex-Governor William E.
Russell was j indorsed for the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency by the Demo
cra'lc State Convention. As ho was also in
dorsed by the Bhode Island Democrats, Mr.
Russell starts ia the race for the nomination
with two States at his back.
John W. Corcoran, Chairman of the State
Committee, called the 1245 delegates to or
der. John P. Thaver. of Wnmpjt
EX-GO VEKXOB RCSS2LL.
(Named by Massachusetts Democrats as their
candidate for President.)
made Permanent Chairman. John E. Rus
sell, George Fred Wiiliam3, J. W. Corcoran
and James W. Donovan were chosen dele-gates-at-largo
to the Chicago "Convention.
The platform adopted declares for sound
money and against free silver coinage, in
dorses the Cleveland i Administration, de
nounces the Republican party for coquet
ting with the American" Protective Associa
tion, and presents Mr. Russell as a candi
date. 1 'At Providence, R. I., the Democratic State
Convention was not the tame affair it prom
ised to be. When the name of General Olney
Arnold was presented as the first delegate to
tha National Convention an antagonistio
movement was commenced. Richard B.
Comstock, Miles A. McNamee, George W.
Greene. Jesse H. Metcalf , James F. Van Alen,
David S. Baker, John H. Tucker and John
E. Conley were elected delegates. The plat
form adopted indorses President Cleveland,
declares for sound monev and presents to
the National Convention Wiiliam E. Russell
as "one who will mako.au idea! candidate
and an ideal President."
THE LOUISIANA ELECTION.
Uesnlts of the Vote for State "tend Munici
pal Officers. .
TheApril election was the most exciting
and surprising ever held in Louisiana. The
election wa3 for both State and city offices
The municipal contest in Now Orleans was
between tha Democrats nd tho Citizens'
League, an organization, which set to work
to reform the city government," and which
nominated not only municipal officers
but members of the Legislatures well. Re
turns at midnight showed a majority for the
lsague of 9272 in a total vote of 30,000 count
ed. They indicated that it had carried the
city by 14,000 majority, elected the Mayor,
Councilmen Rnd other municipal officers,
and every one of its candidates for Senator
and Representative. The most surprising re
sult, however, was ther discovery that New
Orleans, which has 37.'000 registered white
majority, has gone for Pharr, the Republi
can candidate for Governor, .by 300 to 1009
majority, against 22.272 Democratic ma
ority at the last election.
The news from the parishes was meagre,
but showed heavy Republican gains nearly
everywhere. The early indications pointed
to a Democratic majority of 22,000, against
62,530 in the Presidential election of 1892,
and 86,913 in the State election of 1883. The
vote for Governor is count Jrt by the Legisla
ture. Inan election'difficulty at Amite Dr. Gosse,
Populist candidate for Governor in Tangi
pahoa, and a Democrat named Wade were
killed.
Killed by Lljrlitnins;.
Christian Anderson, a .teamster, living at
Cassidy Park, just outside Greenwich, Conu.,
igave a family reunion at his house in honor
of the arrival of his mother from Denmark.
Fifteen persons were seated about the table
;it supper at half past 8 o'clock p. m., when a
oolt of Jightnins: from a heavy shower passed
throueh an open window, striking Anderson
and killing him instantly. The bolt struck
Anderson in the face. No one else was in
jured. A widow and two children sujlrive
the dead man
Connecticut's Oldest Woman Dead..
Mrs. Emily Bobbins Talcott, the oldest
woman in Connecticut, died at her home in
West Hartford. She was born in Wethersfield
5 on Christmas Day, 1790.
Baron de Hirich Dead.
Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the great finan
cier and philanthropist, died on his estate at
Presburjr.' Hungary, from a stroke of apo
plexy. Biron Maurice de Hirsch, -whosa
full name was Maurice de Hirsch de Gereuth.
was born in Munich sixty-tbrea years ago.
His father was a merchant in Bavaria, who,
tor services rendered to the State, was en
nobled in 1369
A Woman Juror in Colorado.
Judge Johnson, of the District Court, Den
ver, accepted Madame Wanea. as a jaror,
this being the first case of a woman" sitting
cn a jury in Colorado, ...
BILL AEFS LETTER.
UK WR1TKS A CHAPTER ON
WANTON CRUELTY.
Sorry That He Once Fired Upon His
Neighbor's Cow.
And the sports killed a thousand
pigeons in Macon the other day. That
is awful. I did not know there were
such unfeeling people in this civilized
country. There is nothing more harm
less, nothing so happy and so beautiful
as the pigeons that domesticate around
our homes and seek the protecting
care of mankind. I thought that this
cruel epcrt had been abandoned and
that clay pigeons were substitutes and
were thrown from a trap by a spring.
No wonder the good people of Macoa
refused to witness the unfeeling sport,
It is an honor to them and jt seems to
me they might have foucd some Jaw to
prevent it. Where did they get so
many pigeons? Is it possible that any
gentleman who had them on his place
would let his boys sell them for
such a sacrifice? Just think of it 1
A thousand happy, innocent birds
torn and mangled by shot ami
shell, legs broken or wings, and
then dying a lingering death of pain.
This thing could not have been done
in Cartersville. The other day two
young bucks, who are proad of their
muscle, planned a boxing match to
come off at the city hall and our mayor
and council rose up in arms and called
out the militia and beat the long roll
and isBued a proclamation and scared
the young bucks so bad they left the
town for three days. Their boxing
gloves were seized as contrabands of
war and have been filed away among
the trophies. One of the bucks is
from England and the affair may yet
get up another Venezuelan complica
tion with the Monroe doctrine attach
ed. What right has Johnny Bull to
be knocking out an American born
citizen? No, we don't believe in
sports that are cruel or dangerous.
A man went up in a balloon hero today
and hung from it by his toes on a
trapeze and then cut loose and. came"
down with a parachute and everybody
gazed and wondered, for it was a free
ehow, but he ought not to have been
allowed to do it, for they get killed
sooner or later, and it excites a thirst
for dangerous risks and an indifference
to death. A man who will wantonly
and foolishly put his life in hazard is
a fool for want of sense and will never
get to heaven, in my opinion. Many
years ago I saw Blondin, a little
Frenchman, who was brought over by
Niblo to danoe the rope at his garden
Bhow in New York. The garden
wasn't big enough for. his ambition
and he got to walking ropes from
steeples of high buildings and next
over waterfalls, and last over the great
chasm below Niagara falls. The last
time I saw him . : he was walking
over that chasm on a rope that was
1,300 feet long and was 150 feet abovo
the surging waters and he had a man
on his shoulders. Well, of course
that was very wonderful and - very
perilous, but it accomplished no
to auybody and nobody would
cared if he had fallen and killed
good
have
him
self. "Just another fool gone," the
spectators would have said. And I
have known my father tell about Sam
Patch, who astonished the coun
try by jumping from top masts of ves
sels and from high bridges. "He jump
ed the falls of Paterson, N. J., about
100 feet, and then the falls of Niagara
and Rocheeter, and finally the Genesee
falls, 125 feet. His body was found
four months afterwards and he was
pronounced a first-class fool. But still
I have more respect for Blondin and
Sam Patch than for any set of men
who will wantonly kill a thousand pig
eons just to show off their skill in
shooting. It is a bad sign in a boy to
be cruel. We have pigeons at our
home and they give us pleasure every
day and sometimes the bad boys slip
around in the -back alley with 'their
sling shots and sTJoot tBem from their
hiding places and we find the dead
birds lying around, and it distresses
my wife sorely. What makes boys do
60? Why do they love to "shoot the
English sparrows? The girls have no
such desire. They would rather caress
them and nestle them in their bosoms.
Man is harder hearted than woman anL
mayoe tne maternal instinct has some
thing to do with it the love of little
helpless creatures. Maybe it is because
she was the' last and best of Goi's crea
tions. One day I took down my gun
in anger to shoot a cow that wa3 in my
cornfield. She had broken down the
fence several times.but old John Allen
was a good neighbor and had promised
to fix his fence and didn't do it, and
he was away from home a good deal,
for he was a millwright. My wife
begged me not to shoot his cow, but I
did it, and put out one of hex" eyes and
tore her up pretty bad. I didn't see
John for some time and didn't want
to. One morning he stopped at the
gate and asked how we all were and
talked about the rain and the weather,
and after awhile remarked that he had
been right busy repairing his part of
that old fence, and it was all right
now. "My caows will not tiouble you
hany more,I 'ope," he said in his Eng
lish brogue. Then, of course, I had
to apologize for shooting his cow and
to explain how much damage she had
done. "Well," 6Jjd he, thoughtfully,
"when I came'ome I was very sorry
for you and for the cdfcn, but more
sorry for my caow. Hit Was my fault
and not ers. I wouldn't av shot your :
caow, major, but hi am not complain
in. You 'av been a good nabor to
me and your children 'av been kind
to mine. Good mornin'. Hive broke
my badze and 'av to get a new one."
Good old John Allan. He died the
other day and Dr. Felton preached his
f uneraL He was a good nabor and an
honest man. I am sorry that I shot
his cow. He loved to talk to me about
"hold h'Eagland" and occe I hurt hia
feelings because I seemed to doubt hia
word when he told me that his father
used to raise eighty bushels of wheat
to the acre. : "Sow wheat in dust
and rye in mortar," he used to say,
"hand you will 'av' a good crop." He
was ntver weaned from his love of the
fatherland and was a good, loving citi
zen of both countries. What a beauti
ful trait is patriotism. An unrecon
structed rebel friend told me in Florida
that nothing had harmonized him since
the war until he visited Europe last
summer and saw the stars and stripea
flyiDg to the breeze in every foreign
port, and then his old love for that
banner came back again and he felt
like he could shake hands and be at
peace with the whole Yankee nation. I
wish that I and my wife could travel
abroad. Bill Arp in Atlanta .Constitution.
Oi ei t il CO-Ntiiti'.Nj,.
A Synopsis of the Proceedings of Both
Houses.
THE' SENATE. '
MONDAY.
On Monday in the Senate Senator Pritch
ard introduced a bill to pay a war claim for
$1,694 to J. M. Johnson, administrator of
Henry Johnson. The Lockhart and Shaw
and Walsh contested election eases has been
f postponed till May 4th. Senator Pritchard
k. will support in the Senate the item in the
Indian bill paying $15,000 to the estates of
.aicLeod and Erwin, attorneys for the Eastern
Cherokees.
TUESDAY.
On Tuesday in the Senate Senator Pritch
ard introduced a bill appropriating $70,000
for a first-class light house at the pitch of
the Cape Fear, 18 miles to sea.
His pension bilis for Silas B. Hensley and
Sarah E. Cotton wero favorably reported
Senator Butler is assured of a favorable re
port this week on his bill to build monuments
to Generals Davidson and Nash, effectuating
resolutions of tho continental congress. He
may get $5,000 or more than lie asked.
WEDNESDAY.
The Senate on Wednesday discussed the
uestion of sectarian schools for Indian chil
dren. It ended in the adoption of an amend
ment offered by Mr. Cockrell. The bill as it
came from the House appropriated $1,335,000
Increase by the Senate to $1,336,000 for
the support of day and industrial schorls for
children. This appropriation was accompa
nied by a' provision absolutely prohibiting
future payment for the education of Indian
children in sectarian schools.
THPR8DAY.
Unanimous consent was asked by Mr.
Call to have the joint resolution, heretofore
offered by him, requesting the President to
send ships of war to Cuba for the protec
tion of American citizens taken up for con
sideration and action; but on the appeal of
Mr. Piatt, Republican, of Connecticut, not to
press the request at this time,' Mr. Call said
he would withhold his request for the pres
ent, but he gave notice that as soon as the
Indian appropriation bill shall be disposed
of, he will move to have his joint resolution
taken up and ated on.
FRIDAY.
In the Senate cn Friday Mr. Bacon, Dem
ocrat, of Georgia, offered an amendment for
tho payment to the Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition Company of Atlanta,
Ga., of the unexpended balance
(about 13,000) of the appropriation
heretofore made for the govern
ment exhibit there as agreed to.
Tho following bills were passed: Senate bill to
$250,000 to Richmond college, Richmond,
Va., for use aud occupation and injury of
building by the United States troops for
eight months beginning April, 1861; Senate
bill appropriating $20,500 for a lighthouse at
St. Joseph's Bay, Fla.
SATURDAY."
The Senate Saturday made brief work of
tho sundry civil bill. When it passed the
House it carried appropriations aggregating
$30,000,000. The Senate appropriation com
mittee reported it back with an addition of
$5,000,000 largely made up sums necessary
to carry on work on public buildings and
river and harbor improvements and courts
for the whole twelve months, instead of for
six or nine months. The committee also
added 62,000,000 more, so the bill a3 itjpas.sed
appropriates in round figures $37,000,000.
Among the amendments adopted were: In
creasing tho limit of cost of the public build
iaar at Savannah, Ga.. from $400,000 to $500,
000. Appropriating $15,000 for a post office
building at Fortress Monroe, Va.t and also
$2,053 for the purchase of additional land
for the military cemetery at Key West, Fla.
THE HOUSE.
.MONDAY.
Mr. Willis, Republican, of Delaware, offer
ed in the House a resolution authorizing and
directing the President to invite the commer
cial nations of the world to join in an inter
national monetary conference, to be held at
a3 early date as possible, for the purpose of
establishing an international standard of ra
tio between gold and silver money. A com
mission of nine is created three to be mem--rs
of the House appointed" by the Speakor;
ihroe to be Senators and three to be ap
pointed by the President. One hundred and
ifty thousand dollars i3 appropriated to
ward the joint expenses of the conference,
ii cpresentative Llnuey has introduced pen
sion bills at $12 monthly for Gillomiel L.
Smoot, .Fezekiah A. Wood, Washington
Hayes and Rebecca Coffey,-of Wilkes, and
L. L. Coffey, of Watauga.
TUESDAY.
Representative Skinner, of North Carolina,
introduced joint resolution in the House on
Tuesday to submit to a direct vote of the peo
ple of the United States next November, the.
questions : 1. Shall congress enact a free
coinage law at 16 to 1? 2. Shall the consti
tution be amended so as ta provide for a di
rect vote for President, Vice President and
Senators ? 3. Shall the constitution be
amended so as to provide that taxes be im
posed as congress deems proper? It gets
around that direct tar decision. 4 Shall
congress provide for an income tax law?
WEDNESDAY.
In the Hou3e on Wednesday two pension
bills were returned to the Senate by the Pres
ident without his signature. Green county,
Texas, was transferred to the Territory of
Oklahoma, in accordance with the recent de
cision of the Supreme Court declaring it not
a part of theState of Texas.
THURSDAY.
By a vote of six ayes to two nays, the
'House committee on Territorieg agreed to
the report favoring a bill admitting Okla
homa to statehood. Beyond passing a few
private bills the Hou3e transacted no busi
ness, except In the discussion Of general pen
sion bills.
FRIDAY.
The general deficiency till, as it passed the
House, contains the. following item of inter
est: To refund to the collector of customs,
Beaufort S. C. for repayment by him to the
persons entitled thereto the sura imposed
and imposed and collected in the case of the
schoonor Phantom for a violation of R. S.
4336, sinoe remitted by the Secretary of the
Treasury $100. 1 ;
SATCHDAY.
The House Saturday discussed the advisa
bility of closing the debate on the pension
bill, but it was decided to continue the same
for a few days. So soon as the pension bill
is out of the way the bankruptcy bill will be
tiken up. The till by which Confederate
soldiers, wnoiater served tn tne Union army,
may be pensioned, was criticised by Mr.
Grosvenor, but he said he would support the
bill however, for the good things there were
in it.
A woman of Bowling Green, Ky
with a family of twenty-one children,
ia suing herusband for divorce,' .
LATEST NEWS
IN BRIEF.
GL.EANINGS FROM MAXY POINTS
Important Happenings, Both Home
and Foreign, Biefly Told.
Southern News Notes.'
Taylor Harmon, a Negro murderer,
is to be hanged at Charlottesville, Va.,
on June 27th.
The Georgia Railroad Commission
has failed so far to upset railroad con
solidation in that State.
The Confederate Veterans of South
Carolina held their re-union in
Charleston. Thousands of old soldiers
were in attendance.
The Asheboro and Montgomery
Railroad Company, of North Carolina,
has recently been granted a charter by
the Secretary of State.
Gustavius A. Kohn, who has had
charge of a large millinery establish
ment in Europe and America, com
mitted suicide in Richmond, Va., last
Thursday.
Two inventors of Remington, Ind.,
have invented a glass coffin and they
say there is a yearning desire for glass
coffins all over the country, which
thus far has had to go unsatisfied.
The railroads in the Southern Pas
senger Association will charge 25 cents
hereafter for carrying a bicycle in the
baggage car. This is a uniform rate
for all distances.
Hon. C. M. Busbeee, ex-Grand Sire
of the Odd Fellows of the world; will
deliver the address at the laying of the
comer-stone of the main building of
the Odd Fellows of the Orphans Home
in Goldsboro, N. C.
The jSeaboard Air-Line has issued a
very attractive pamphlet, with a hand
some picture of the Robert E. Lee
statue in Richmond, Va., in regard to
tho re-union of United Confederate
Veterans at Richmond, June 30 to
July 7.
Northern News Items.
Linford L.. Bliss, 65" years of age,
Jwas killed in Philadelphia, Ta., by an
electric wire.
The long-expected distribution of
World's Fair diplomas and medals has
begun at last.
In the District Court at Denver,
Col., Madame Warren has beei ac
cepted as a juror.
. Three persons killed, seieral injured
and much property destroyed"in Ohio
by a cyclone last Monday.
Nine thousand maple trees are to be
cut up in Maine this summer, to fill
an order for 1,500,000 shoe lasts.
The frosts for the last ten days were
uncommonly severe throughout Cali
fornia, and the fruit crop "has been
destroyed in some sections.
Charles Pustolkn and Louis P. Herr
man, New York City murderers, were
put to death by electricity in the peni
tentiary at Sing Sing last Wednesday.
In the trial of Scott Jackson for the
murder of Pearl Bryen, at Cincinnati,
O., a clay figure, clad in her dress was
set up in the court, but objected to
and removed.
The Greater New York bill has been
passed over the vetoes of Mayor Strong,
of New York, and Mayor Warster, of
Brooklyn, by a vote of 78 to 69. Tho
opinion is that Goveanor Morton will
sign the bill.
The New York Herald says that the
ice trust control all the ice sold in New
York and Brooklyn. Families are
forced to pay 40 cents a hundred
weight for ice. ' The price this time
last year was from 20 to 25 cents.
Washington.
. The nomination of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, of Virginia, to be Consul-General
to Havanna, has been ecufirrned.
The United States Senate has passed
the bill appropriating $150,000 for
public building at Portsmouth, Va. .
Vice-President Stevenson will de
liver an address on the occasion of the
Commencement of the University of
North Carolina, Thursday, Jnne 4th,
and will also deliver tho diplomas to
the graduates.
--
Foreign. .
Last Thursday was the third and
final day of the celebration of Shakes
peare's birthday at Stratford-on-A.von,
England.
African mining companies will soon
develop the old workings described in
"King Solomon's MiDcs." The mines
are in Matabeleland.
Spanish newspapers main-tain that
the United States has serni-ofSeially
approached Spain on the subject of
political reforms in Cuba.
A serious conflict between Christians
and Turks has oecuTed in the island'of
Crete. There were two "days' fighting
and fifty persons were killed and
wounded. The Cretans have appealed
to Greece for aid.
A letter has been received from the
American missionaries is Bitlis Turk ey,
etating that the American relief agents
were permitted to select the times and
plar.es for the distribution of relief to
tho distressed Armenians.
Elected a Female Ticket.
The enfranchised women of Ellis, Kas.,
cored a sweeping victory at the recei t mu
nicipal election. A complete ticket o? wo
men candidates was nooi nated and all ere
elected with the exception of Mrs. Clara
ISldoncandidate for police judge, who was
defeated by a majority of five. Mrs. M. A.
Wa?e proprietor of a large millinery and
dry goods sPtore, was elected mayor, and Mrs.
ySlf Gainlor, Miss Lillian Hussey, Mrs.
Fmma Shields" and Ella Newcomb were
e&Ted members of the council by average
lritiM of twenty. The women tamed
SSttaketaw and- order," and they pro-
letter. -
IK L fvG If A P i I i O TICKS.
The French, Senate unanimously
Toted the Madagascar oredits which
they had refused to grant to the Bour
geois ministry, f
Evidence for the defense in the case
of the American Tobacco Company,
charged with infringing the anti-trust
law of New Jersey, has been concluded.
Vice-Chancellor Reed decided that the
argumnnt would be heard in Trenton
on June 23, 24, 25 and 26. '
The Governor of New York has
signed the bill lessening the hours of
working women to 60 hours per week
in mercantile establishments. Chairs
are to be provided for the clerks, and
the sanitary arrangements are to be
approved by the board of health, and
the'workshops inspected.
At Burlington, N. J.
the immense
B. Hunting
destroyed by
shoe plant of the Wm.
estate was completely
fire, entailing a loss of
insurance of $40,000.
$75,000 with
The concern
did a big business
of children's shoes
hands.
in the manufacture
and employed 150
An old shop adjoining the new shops
of the Southern at Atlanta has been
burned. Twenty cars were lost. The
oss is under $30,000
Prominent Southern men met in
Washington Friday and formed an as
sociation to study Southern history.
Telegraphic communication with
Buluwayo has again been opened.
Uncfe Sam's Fish Commission will
distribute during the comirg season,
837,112,000 adult fish, fry and eggs
for re-stocking the waters of the differ
ent States. This will exceed the distri
bution of last year by 107,000,000.
In Huntington, W. Va., John Love
shoots his wife and father-in-law, Jos.
Mays, and then shoots himself. Cause,
separation of Love and his wife.
Dr. Diaz will attend the Southern
Baptist Convention at Chattanooga,
Tenn., May 8th, and speak on the
condition of affairs in Cuba.
The German government has re
ceived information that war has broken
out in German Southwest Africa be
tween the Germans and the Gabais and
Hottentots.
Governor Morton, of New York, has
signed the bill permitting racing as
sociations to build enclosures on their
tracks where betting may be conducted
and perfecting the racing law in
various ways.
It is the general understanding that
the Venezulean Commission, which
were appointed by the President to
bring about arbitration between the
United States and Great Britian, will
not make its 'report until December
next.
WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE.
A Better Feeline in Commerce
and
Industry Generally.
Dun & Co., and Bradstreet, of New York,
in their weekly review of trade say: Failures
for the week have been 238 in the United
States against 280 last year and 44 in Canada
against 37 last year.
Business has been favored by seasonable
Weather, and the distribution of products
Has made fair progress, not yet reducing re
tail or wholesale stocks far enough, however,
to materially improve the position of indus
tries. Money markets have grown more fa
vorable, as well as the state of foreign com
merced Prices of commodities are on the
whole lower than ever before, having de
clined 2 per cent, since April 1st, and 17 per
cent, since July, 1890, or October, 1892. Tho
fall in manufactured products is a little less
than it was April 1st, but in farm products
greater,
Neither pig . iron nor manufactured pro
ducts hive improved in demand a3 yet,
though further combinations have raised
prices of rods and of bar iron to 1.20, while
steel bars sell at 1.15 and nails are to be 15
per cent, higher after May 1st. Brokers at
Pittsburg are still selling steel billets 60 oeut3
below the pool price, though it wa3 fixed
more than three weeks ago, and Bessemer
pig has declined there to $13, with gray forge
stronger. Structural angles are a shade
lower, though some good contracts are ex
pected. More favorable reports from commercial
travelers arc from those representing Pitts
burg, St. Louis, Kansas City. Omaha and
Milwaukee houses.' Moderate improvement
is shown at a lew other Western centres but
at most of the large distributing points
throughout tho country the movement of
merchandise, on the whole, shows no mate
rial change.
While seeding i3 progressing rapidly in the
Northwest, country trade there is unfavora
ble. Lack of rain in Fi .rida is the cause of
scarcity of early vegetables and at almost all
cities mercantile collections continue slow.
The tendency of prices is the revej-se of
that for several preceding weeks with a largo
Dumber of decreases. In addition to tho.se
mentioned. what flour, Indian corn, oats,
sugar, leather, pe;roleum and lard are lower,
while wool, lumber, coal, pork and print
cloths remain nominally unchanged. Cotton
and tin rdatea have advanced, the L'itter due
to a combination by makers.
THE SOUTH'S PROGRESS.
Enterprises Projected, as Reported to
tne Manufacturer's Record.
.- Reports to the Manufacturer's Record"
show that the industrial enterprises projected
h the South cover a wide number of indus
tries, indicating an increasing diversity of
manufacturing in tljte section ; and while the
number of new enterprises is not larger than
for previous Weeks, it show3 that a very
healthy and substantial progress is being
made in all parts of the South.
In Florida contracts have been let for a
$49,000 water works power house at Jack
sonville, and an electric light plant i3 to be
built at Key West..
In Georgia, sulphuric acid plant at Atlan -ta;
tin ware, factory in Atlanta; a bicycle,
manufacturing company, the first sou tti of
Maryland, with a capital of $15,000 organize I
in Atlanta; a cotton seed oil mjJl in Augusta;
a $10,000 canning factory at r5 retain; gold
mining operations at Canton; an eJeetnc
light plant and water works systeai ft Dub
lin: a soap factory at Macon and a $600,000
quarrying company.
North Carolina reports the necessary capi
tal raised for putting into blast the Greens
boro furnace, built several years - ago, but
never in operation; a coUon mill waste fac
tory at Salisbury.
South Carolina, a sash and door factory at
Aiken; the doubling of the capacity of a cot
ton mill at Bamberg; a $1,030 knitting mill at
the same place, and a $10,000 lumber com
pany at Charleston. '
Virginia reports iron ore property to be
developed at Baena Vista; a vegetable dye
factory at Lynchburg; a $ 20,000 medicine
company at Norfolk; a brick factory at Bad
ford, and the establishment of extensive
6aT and planing mills In southwest Virginia
by western people, -----
WITHHOLDS
. THE- RENT.
COMPTROLLER BOWLER DEFIES
CONGRESS.
i . ' a.
i I
Says the Venezulean Commission Can't
Spend Any of Its $100,000.
First Comptroller -of the Treasury Robert
B. Bowler, who withheld from the sugar
planters of Louisiana and the ' West the
bourity voted to them by Congress has now
decided that the Venezuela Boundary Com
mission has no power to use any portion of
the $100,000 appropriated by Congress for its
ose in the payment of rent for the offices
which it occupies. Because of this decision
Senator Allison, Chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations, is compelled to ask for
further legislation to meet the Comptroller's
opposition. i
Senator Gorman criticised the Administra
tion's Venezuelan policy a little, and in the
Senate they caused the subject of the appro
priation to go over until they could consider
it fully. Mr. Gorman is one of tho Senators
who think that Congress did a very foolish
thing in upholding the hands of President
Cleveland in hia so-called war policy against
England in the boundary dispute, and In the
brief and sarcastic remarks which he made
in the 8enate he voiced the hostility of him
self and many of his i colleagues, chiefly on
the Democratic side of the chamber.
When the item in the Sundry Civil Appro
priation bill to pay the rent of the offices of
the Venezuelan Commissiou was reached
Mr, Gorman expressed his surprise at the ne
cessity of such an item, and at the fact that
the Comptroller did not, without further
legislation, audit and pass the vouchers for
rent of the offices occupied by the Commis
sion. The law appropriating $10,000 for the
expenses of thecommission had been passed,
he said, under great popular excitement, at
the suggestion of the President; and it.
was then supposed to be broad enough to
permit the commission to go abroad,
collect maps, gain information, and take
all the steps necessary to settle that
great conflict. But j here the first Comp
troller stepped in with a ruling that that
momentous Commission . could not pay its
rent. ' i
Mr. Allison admitted that it was -a very
ridiculous condition of affairs, but yet, he
said, it existed, and had to De met.
Mr. Gorman added that the re was a feeling
throughout the country that the emergency
out of which that Commission had originated
had passed, if indeed it had ever existed. He
was glad that it had dwindled, down to a
mere matter of office rent.
The Supreme court of the United States
heard the concluding arguments of.- counsel
upon the sugar bounty cases by Mr, Joseph
H. Choate in behalf of the claimants and by
Solicitor-General Holmes Conrad for the
Government. In the course of his speech
Mr. Choate briefly paid his respects to Comp
troller Bowler, whose action necessitated the
litigation, and who was an auditor of the
argument throughout. He was speaking of
the power of congress to make the appropri
ation that had been withheld from the claim
ants, contending that the courts had no
jurisdiction to review the action.
; "Why," he said, "thecases are here merely
by accident. A big pebble was found in the
cogs of the Government, and these, claimants
were compelled to come here to get it re
moved so that the wheels might be allowed
to go round." I "
At another period of his address Mr. Choate
referred to the appropriation of money made
by Congress to Lafayette.
I "That was made," he continued, "to partly
discharge what they believed to Lave been a
debt of gratitude for great and valuable ser
vices rendered to the United States'- in the
Revolutionary war, and yet," with a signiflr
cant look at Mr. Bowler, "if some persona
had been in the Government at that time La
fayette would not have received that money
on the grouud that Congress had no power
to make the appropriation.''
SILVER COINAGE COUNT.
Opinions From Many States Show An
Irresistable Trend Toward Free
Sliver at Chicago. .
The Journal of New' York, has received
from the Democratic leaders in nearly every
State in the Union opinions as to tho proba
ble strength of silver or gold in their dele
gations to the national Democratic conven
tion at Chicago. Many of them also discusa
the probability df the adopting of a unit rule
by their delegations.
This canvass seems to show that the west
and south will be largely foT silver, while the
east and middle States will declare for gold,
or at any rate against free silver.
That the results foreshadowed by this can
vass are most important in politics cannot'
be gainsaid. These! opinions from their
character clearly indicate that a crisi3 in
financial matters tvill be reached when the
Democratic convention assembles and tbat .
the silver men will j very likely control the
convention. " ,
The deductions from all these reports can
be seen by a glance at the following table:
silver ;
Southern State West Virginia, Virginia,'
North arolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Terinesse, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas.
Weters States Illinois, Missouri, Kansas. ,
New Mexico, Coldrado, Montana, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon; Utah, Arizona, Califor
nia, Oklahoma (Ter).j
v - GOLD. I
New England States Maine (divided). New
Hamsbire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island.
Middle .States New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland.
.. Weetern States Wisconsin, Iowa, Minn
esota, i
Southern States Kentucky. -. k
Doubtful States Indiana, (divided,) Ohio,
Alabama, Florida. j .
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