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eOMTY jL ! i I "PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD". VOL- IV. DUNN. N., C. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 3, 1896- NO. 22. AWFUL CYCLONE. .Appalling Loss of Life Iq anfl Around St. Louis. ' HUNDREDS DEAD OR DYING. A Whirling Clond of Death and Instruction. (. e..t i.ra.i..-oe Sweep Out of the North-v.et-t, (ro--in tower St. Louis, and Foll-me ! by Flood and Fire, Destroy plncli of K:ist St. Ijoalg The Eads KiMe rrtiaUy Wrecked Block After i'.lovk of Houses Crushed by the Storm Hundreds of Families Made Home-lss- w -Ii'iol . Children Killed -The t .Tin .--.veeps Over Several States. St. Lot-is, Mo., May 23. St. Louis gasps :a ti:'. sua low of a horror unspeakable. Fr-.-ji fa 1 to end it is a city of wreck and ::in. From end to end it is a city of the dllwlllMIlfilni lul IS jffl ST. LOUIS AUDITORIUM. (Euilt for the Republican National Convention waioh will be held June 16. Committee man Kerens says the damage it has received will not interfere with the meeting.) dead. A" tornado,' terrible In its fury, "im measurable in its destructiveness, struck the fity at 5.15 p. m. yesterday and for half an Lour it rocked and trembled as it a giant e;inhqiiake were shaking the earth beneath it. It came from the south, where it scourged a vast 'extent of country and it xvrought unpr3cedented havoo in this city. Two tornadoes, one sweeping down from Mofcerly, Mo., toward the southeast and the other sweeping up "from the southeast, met over th Mississippi Biver at St. Louis. The storms seemed to join forces and dealt death r.ad rteitriK tion. East St. Louis, on the Illi nois side cfthe river, fared the worse, a swath several blocks wide being cut through the heart of that city. The lower part of St. Luis, en the western bank of the river, was swept through and great buildings were levelled as though they were built of straw. In Eat St. Louis there is little doubt that the number of dead was 200, in Sr. Louis it reached 110; 1500 were hurt in and near St. Louis. In East St. Louis the loss of life was greatest. It is variously placed at from two hundred to three hundred. In St. Louis it is known that many were killed. Latest reports compiled from the scene of destruction in the three States point to the loss of over 500 human lives. The disaster arrears to be the greatest tne country has fcnnwn since the Johnstown flood. There are reports that eighty school chil dren were killed at Drake. III., and that forty perished at Rush Hill, Mo. The property loss runs into millions. It i placed, from cyclone, fire and flood, in Ka'-t St. Louis, Iil.f at two millions and a half of dollars. In St. Louis it will befour million more. The Liggett & Myers wreck buried twenty three workmen under its debris. Only three Uaths resulted from the City Hospital wreelc. The Republican Convention Hall is injured but litlla. A week's work will repair it. b-ven steamers were wrecked by the . srr.rm. The number of dead they carried down is not known. repite. the flood of rain which followed the gyration of the winds, the eleotrio light wires ignited the ruins everywhere and the destruction was increased. The streets were so littered with debris that the firemen were unai.le to render assistance in any direction, even if th water works had not already been destroyed by the cyclone. The great"Eads Bridge, spanning the Mis- n i attto T?TTrOITTOV TfTTTT TlTVT (The famous structure, where many National fissiPpif was partially wrecked and is littered with tbe wrecks of trains and wagons, with shied or injured men and horses. Hundreds of families are without homes and every article of household use was car ried away by the storm. The steamer D. H. Pike, with thirty pas ngers on board, bound for Peoria, was Mown bottom side up in the middle of the tlvr an l a number of persons were killed. l be steamer Delaphin. with a crew of six and twenty lady passengers on board, wa3 t iown against a bridge pier and broke in two. The ladies and two of the crew clung to the bridge stonework, and were rescued. Ihe Laclede, Planters' and Lindell Hotels' ere damaged greatiy. An express train on the Chicago, and Alton was tipped over, and tridffePaSSenSerS more 0r 1683 ",Jured on llie Onened's furniture store, at Broadway ana Soulard, was demolished and six men are reported killed. A saloon at 604 South seventh street fell with nine men in the ruins. St. Patrick's Church, at Sixth andBiddle eets, fell, and the debris fills the streets, ineelectrio railway line is burned out, as well as electric plant. . fourteen fire alarms were sound! with- In an hour, and three alarms were sent in rrom the poorhouse, which butlding has 1200 inmates. The roof of the poorhouse was blown off and the fatalities are great During the lst race at the Fair Grounds the roof was blown off the grand stand. The crowd had gone to the open fields for safety, and only four men were killed. Tbe armory at Seventeenth and Pine Btreets was used as a hospital. At 7.30 p. m. the rain, whloh had ceased Aoa V1?6 beSan afresh, and fell in torrents. : 8 c'ockthe eastern sky was aflame with the light of flres in East St. Louis. The metal roof of the Merchants' Exchange was rolled up like a scroll and fell into the streets. The Louisville and Nashville east-bound local passenger train had just reached East St. Louis when Jhe storm struck the citv. The train was overturned, but miraculously only a few passengers were injured. The Chicago and Alton east-bound local passenger train which left St. Louis at 5 o clock was on the east span of the bridge, wnenthe wind picked the cars up and turned them over on their sides. The iron spans and trusses held the cars from toppling into the river, 100 feet below. The passengers were thrown into a confused mass. Tne net work of wire3 made rescue difficult and dan gerous. . The east span of the east bridge is so badly wrecked that it will take three days to allow trains to pass. Lightning struck the Standard Oil Works and flames weie soon pouring from a dozen buildings. The East St. Louis Fire Depart ment was utterly powerle.-s to cope with the flres, and it was feared that nearly the entire business and a great portion of the residence section would be destroyed by flames, if not already ruined by the wind. Among the principal building3 alreadv in ruins are the National Hotel, th Standard Oil Works, East St. Louis Wire Nail Works, the Crescent Elevator, Hesel Elevator, all freight depots and stores and residences on St. Clair ave nue. The damage to the property in St. Lou is is estimated at el.OOO.pOO, and he loss in East St Louis 83.000,000. There were really two tornadoes. One came from the northwest ard the other from the direct east. Both met on the Illinois shore of the Mississippi River and joined in a whirling cloud of death and destruction. The list of dead in St. Louis is beyond present-comrjutation. A large section of the city jail blew down. The two hundred prisoners were exercising at the time, but they were too frightened to attempt to escape. The poorhouse, several miles from St. Louis, was darhaeed by fire and many inmates burned. The East St. Louis Water Works were destroyed. The levee was packed with people while the storm raged fiercest, groping through the darkness and eagerly imploring infor mation from loved onea on the river. The Annunciation Church at Sixth and Lasalle streets was totally destroyed. Father Read, the pastor, wasiata'lly injured. Michael Dawes, a driver, was blown from his watron in the vicinity and instantly killed. The middle span of the roadway above the rail road tracks on the Eads Bridge was blown completely away. . The Plant flour mills and the works of the St. Louis Iron and Steel Company were de stroyed, and the big Cupples block of build ings was partially demolished. The Waters-Pierce oi I works were destroyed by fire, and buildings in several parts of the city burned all night. The total number of families who are with out homes, and whose every article of house hold effects was swept away by the storm, is variously estimated at from 500 to 80 It will be several days before a complete and trustworthy list can be made. The Baltimore and Ohio and Yandalia roundhouses, tbe Standard Oil Works, East St. Louis and Crescent elevators, and a dozen freight houses were caught in the vortex of the cyclone and reduced to debris. Five hundred freight cars are said to have been blownlnto the river. The great Eades bridge was twisted all out of shape and made an utter ruin. Freight cars were tossed to and fro, tumbled into ditches, driven sometimes into the fields many rods from where they stood. The great Vandalia freight house fell in a heap of utter ruin, and thirty-five men who had taken refuge in it were buried beneath the ruins and their lives crushed out. Some of the bodies have been got out, torn and mangled beyoa l the powers of description. Liggett and Meyer's big tobacco manufac tory, the largest in the West, according to the latest report was wrecked totally and the Conventions have met, badly damaged.) ineanfiira thera woo creat. Twentv dead VA AAIV o- - bodies and many wounded have been recov ered from this building. The scene in the river opposite at. uouis was appalling. Steamboats moored at their landings were torn away, turned over and sunk, drowning all on board. Many people were seen clinging to floating wreckage and pitiously appealing for help. OTHER PLACES STRICKEN. The Wide Beach of the Storm and Some of the Fatalities. BLOoauNOToy, HI., May 28. Word reached the Chicago and Alton Railroad officials that a tornado had demolished the village of Bush Hill, Mo., twelve miles from Mexico, in Audrian County. The tornado struck the town a few minutes before 4 o'clock, and blew down the schoolhouse, crushing its in mates. The report was to the effect that fifty pupils bad been killed and a number SSfiiioir, Mo., May 2S.-A tornado passed five miles north of Sturgeon about S o elock n. m.- At Renick three men were seriously Injured and a family of colored people were carried oyer a mile, two children being fa- talV hurt. Friendship' Church, north of town, was demolished. The funnel-shaped cloud was seen by half the .people of Stur geon. Bridges and fences are torn up for miles; Kassas Citt, Mo.,' May 28. Renick. Ran dolph County, Mo., was blown away this afternoon -and sereral persons were killel. Labadle, Mo., was also destroyed. Ten per sons were killed at the latter place. Chicago,-May 28. The tornado passed through Southern Illinois and spread de struction over a large extent of territory. New Baden is reported to have been nearly destroyed, and several lives were lost. Seven persons are reported killed and thirty in jured at New Madrid, southeast of Centralis. The villages of Boies and Dix were partial ly destroyed, and several persons killed. It is estimated that fifty lives have been lost in Clinton, Washington and Jefferson Counties, and vast amount of farm property destroye J. A dispatch from Centralla gives news of th tornado's deadly work at Plokneyville, which is south of the former city. The com pany's station and machine shops were blown to pieces, and several business build ings and .houses torn down. The company's chief clerk there, who was in the -station, was killed, and the cashier seriously injured. The Coroner's Figures. The thousands of men at work in the ruined district at St. Louis, Mo., are bringing order out of chaos and it will be but a few days be fore nearly every trace of the material wreckage caused oy the tornado of. Wednes day has been cleared away. The following is. the figures & oonpiled by the coroner: Kuown dead in St. Louis 194; unknown dead in St. Louis 8. Fatally injured in St. Louis 18; missing in St. Louis 56. Known deal in East St. Louis 132; un known dead in East St. Louis 3. Fatally injured in St. Louis 1. Total fatalities 418. TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. Report says there are 600 A. P. A in North Carolina. Scott Jackson, the murderer of Pearl Bryan, has been sentenced by the court to hang Jnne 29th. The Northern Presbyterian General Assembly has fixed upon "Winona, Ind., as the next place of meeting. Chief Jnstice Snodgrass, of the Ten nessee Supreme Court bench, has been fined $50 and costs for carrying con cealed weapons. Francis E. Shober, a member of the Forty-first and Forty-second Congress, and at one time Secretary of the United States Senate, died in Salis bury, N. C, Friday. The next General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church will be held in Charlotte, N. C, in the First Ghuroh, the third Sunday in May, 1897. A motion1 for a new trial for Scott Jackson, convicted of Pearl Bryan's murder at Cincinnati, O., was over ruled by Judge Helm Friday, and June 30th set-as the date of execution. During a balloon ascension in Mar tensville, Vail,. Friday, an old colored man named Archie Brown was caught in the ropes and carried up a distance of 300 feet, wlien he fell He was kill ed instantly. The decision by the New York Court of Appeals as to the constitu tionality of the Raines liquor law does not set at rest the legal controversy over the matter. It is now claimed that the law is in conflict with the United States constitution. COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS Practically Unchanged Crop Pros pects Improved,. Dun and Bradstreet, of New York, in their weekly review ot trade, say: Failures for the week have been 239 In the United States against 215 last year, and 20 in Canada against 34 last year. The improvement in the trade situation is confined to the demand for hides, leather and shoes, the tendency of prices of same to advanoe, and an improve ment in. request for dry goods and hats and shoes from wholesalers at St. Taul, Kansas City. Omaha and Baltimore. The crop out look in South Carolina and Kentucky is brighter because of rains, and a generally better feeling exists among sugar producers and handlers in Louisiana and Texas because of the recent sugar bounty decision. General business contitues quiet, and at large financial centres les3 commercial paper is niakincr. cvfln at lower rates. The Drice movement is a train downward. j wheat corn and oats, a3 well as pork and ilard, exhibiting unexpected shrinkages. '(Coffee, tco'. ton and petroleum are likewise t lower, and sales of pig Iron and billets by middlemen have been made a shade under norminal figures. Wheat, flour, coal and loths are practically unchanged, while re fined sugar and tin plates report advances. Fides and leather are firm at recent advan ces and the tendency is upward, . The iron and steel markets are weak, with lower prices, because the demand for flnish ied products is entirely inadequate, though .(prices of these are higher. Pig iron has fallen- over 4 per cent, since April 1. but the average of finished products ha3 been ad vanced 3 per cent. Lower quotations for Bessemer and grey forge and local coke at Chicago with stoppage of two-thirds of the furuacesj in Virginia, some in Pennsylvania 'and others in the Mahoning and Shenandoah j valleys result from inability of manufactur ers to sell at prices which their combinations demand. Bessemer billets being undersold t by open hearth, bars by steel bar3 and nails by new concerns, which are, rapidly putting ' in machines. Plates weaken and there is no improvement in sheets or rods, but beam I makers have raised the price .2 per ton, i. making a slight advance in the average of all prices for the week, it is possible that rebuilding after the disaster at St, Louis may aneer, uon ana sieei extensively. TnE SOUTII'S RKVIVAL. Material Evidence that She Is Taking tne Lead. Special reports to the Manufacturer's Rec ord, covering the business interests of the South for the week, show a considerably larger number or important matters than for the preceding week. The Watts Iron and 8teel plant built several years tgo at a cost of about $2,000,000 to roll ingots into slabs and billets. This company has hud one of its furnaces in operation for five or six months making pig iron, and the starting up of thU large steel plant promises to have a very ma terial effect upon the question of steel making in the South. Some contracts are being let for the equip ment of the steel plant, to be-built at Birm ingham by the Birmingham Boiling Mill M Cotton mill enterprises include a tlOO.OOO P company at iiictory urove, a. u., a Au.uw spindle mm at tumoo, mo meww vyi tal stock of 75,000 at Chester for the pur- l m . . - rfn ami m on i pose ot auamK n.uw :scriptionof 50,000 for building a mill at IBiacksburg. S. f. Pennsylvania people nave purcuascti o, P00 acres of timber land in Alabama lor im ' mediate development. . , BILL ARP'S LETTER WILLIAM IS GETTING TO DB : SOMEWHAT SENTIMENTAL. lie Indites an Interesting Epistle on the Subjeot of Flowers. I am not a linguist, but have been told there is no language but ours thai has a word or expression signifying "home" in the sweet, sentimental meaning that we attach to it. There are words enough that mean a dwelling house, an abiding place, but home has a broader compass and includes all the emotional surroundings the garden1, the well, with its old oaken bucket, or the crystal spring at the foot of the hill the vines over the door and on the lattice the 6h,ale trees, the land senpe view from, the window, the cra dle and the old arm chair ; the clock on the mantle, the pictures on the walls, the faithful watch dog, the play ful kitten, and ever the crickets chir rup on the' hearth. Bat more than atl these are the loved ones who meet us and greet us at the threshold. The wise man tells us of the time when man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets. Our home here is very brief, we knoW, but it is the dearest spot on earth, and should be loved and cherished by every one who goes out from its sacred portals or returns within them to rest from the cares of a busy world. It is one of my constant regrets that there are so many good people in this great big world who have no home riot ah acre on God's green earth they can call their own. If every family had ;a home the children would grow up bel ter citizens, better patriots ; the par ents would hold up their heads and tie thankful to God for his blessings. The good wife and daughters would treasure the vines they planted, and the flowers they grew in the front yard flowere that are the smiles f God upon a sin-cursed world. The poet says: - "The world has no'hing to bastow; From our own selves our joys must flow, Ajd that ds&T place 'our home.' " t was ruminating about these things as 1 sat in my verandah in the shadow of the vines the Virginia creeper, the madiera and cinnamon vines that by day and by night are climbipg higher and, enlarging and unfoldiDg their tender leaves that will soon cover the trellice. I love to watch their daily progress. I built the framework for these vines and am proud of it, evejn though my wife did boss the job, and me, too. iwaa she who made me set the posts out two feet from the edge f the verandah floor and brace them to the top of the columns. 'Twas she who suggested canes from the can$ brake long canes that were stuck in the ground and their tops cut evep and fastened to the crossbar. These caues are just one foot apart and are interlaced with horizontal canes, also a foot apart, and the basket work keeps the whole fabric good anp strong. Strong and vigorous vines have already climbed and twinejd around every cane, but she said there must be windows in the lattice, so that we could sit in our chairs and see the trains go by and the carriages and bi cycles and funeral processions and pic nio parties and the children going to school and look at our neighbors who iive across the way. So there is a space of three feet where the vines cling close to the perpendicular poles, but are not allowed to send out any horizontal shoots, lhis gives us ample vision of the outer world, and I sit daily there in my big arm chair antl rest my feet upon the railing and rum mate upon life with its blessings an am thankful that I live. Just a word about that railing. used to be about three feet high and studded with upright balusters, the top rail too high and the bottom one tdo low for a good foot rest. So when I bought the property the first thing I did was to reform the long verandah. It cost but a trifle to take out the up right pieces and lower the top rail and run a middle one and then put short square pieces between them and alte r nate them like a road to Jericho. This makes the cheapest and most comfort able railing in the world, and gives-an old man choice of three elevations for his feet and gives a modest woman choice of two. I have already observe d in my brief life fhat there are tv o classes of people wlio like to eleva e their pedal extremities when in a sta ;e of innocuous desuetude old men ard lazy lawyers. Old age is excusable, for his legs are tired, especially wht n his corporosity increases with ad vancing years, or he is bossed arour d the flower garden by his loving wifo ; the average lawyer is excusable, too, I suppose, for it is the brain that quie'e ens the flow of blood to the extremi ties,. and if tbe brain has nothing :o work on no cases, no clients the legs get sleepy and must have rest. j I can tell a town loafer's age prettjy ardU hv his nostnre when seated. An old. confirmed loafer wants tw!o rhairit- one to rest his feet upon. If he is a lawyer, he prefers a table. But I am off the subject again. was thinking about the flowers tle new and beautiful flowers that Mrs. Arp got from Mr. Berckman these cannaa that are so gorgeously lovely and are now blooming into beautV. We had some yellow ones before, but now have other colors that are brilliant and attractive. I decorated my vege table garden last year with sun flow ers, but I don't think my wife fancied them. She said they made hereyfs tired, but she is delighted with" the crimson and orange and variegated cannas and her Mareschal Neil roses and carnation pinks. She wants only $2 or $3 worth of new flowers every spring, and up to -this time 6he has had it, thank, the good Lord for His mercies. Tbe weather has been awful hot, but I have had to dig and fork up the ground and haul fertilizer in the wheel barrow and lay off a new flower bed and change plants from the old ones and tote water and sprinkle and rake around till me nether garments were moist and as salty as Lot's wife. It hasn't rained a drop in three weeks, notwithstanding my rheumatio pains and my wife's corns and the rooster's crowing in the night, and so I have everything to water every even ing. We have had no man servant but me for a long time, and my wife says I look exceeding well, considering age and infirmity, and the girls smile around on the sly to see how a little nxorial taffy spurs me on. Had a letter yesterday from a suffer ing benedict, who says his girls wanted him to stop chopping cotton and sow ing peas and send some help to take up the carpets and whitewash the palings and the trees and the pig pen and clean up things generally, for some town kinfolks were threatening to visit them. He said he was about to outdo the girls, but his wife re-enforced them and said they dident ask such favors but twice a year and were the best daughters in the world, and, she thought he might spare a hand for a day or two, and now he writes to me for advice. Must he surrender and take a hand from the field or not? No, of course not. . The way to do is to do all these little household jobs yourself. You can take up a carpet and hang it on the paling and beat the dust out of it as well as anybody, and whitewashing is nothing but good fun. You can hang a window curtain or put in a pane of glass or mend a baby carriage or repaint the mantel piece. My girls papered every room in our house. Their mother trained us to do all these things, and it eaves a lot of money. My friend, that whitewashing must be done if the world comes to an end. Let the cotton suffer for a day. I expect you have too much planted, anyhow. Everybody around here has. The good wife and daughters have to stay in the house or about it nearly all their time, and it should be made as pleasant and inviting as possible. Yours in sympathetic bonds. Biid Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. SOUTHERN CONDITION. Reports of Industrial and Business Affairs. The following report of the South's indus trial progress is taken from the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Tradesman for the past week: General business is active and increasing. The spring has been favorable for small fruits and early vegetables, and a large amount of ready money has been disbursed. Fertilizers and agricultural implements are in great de mand and sales are twice those of last vear. The new cotton mills for the week are the Landrum cotton mill of Dandrum, S. C, capital $100,000; the Atlanta Textile Manu facturing company of Atlanta, Qa., with f 20, 000 capital and others at Oxford, Miss., and Lebanon, Tenn. New industries established or incorporated in the Southern States during the past week include : The Chieftain Cypress company, of Ocala, Fla., capital $150,000; the American Brewing and Ice company, of Central City, W. Va., with $75,000 capital, and the Rich mond Woodworking company, of Richmond, Va., capitalized at $50,000. The E. A.Frank lin Churn and Implement company, capital $50,000, has been chartered at Austin, Texas; the R. W. Coffee Man ufacturing company, at Richmond, Va., with $25,000 capital; and a $25,000 shoe fac tory is to be built in Charleston, S. C. The Groesbeck Cotton Oil, Gin and Compress company has been chartered at Groesbeck, Tex., with $20,000 capital; the Jacksonville Fertilizer company, capital $10,000, at South Jacksonville, Fla., the Athens Coal and Man ufacturing company, capital $1D.000, of Athens, Tex., and tne Southern Lumber company, also with $10,000 capital, at Char leston S. C. There are also reported canning factories at Avon Park, and Linton, Fla.; a marble quarry to be opened at Knoxville, Tenn.: nail works at Middlesboro, Ky.; a pottery and tile lant at Oxford, Ala., and a tobacco factory at Ocala, Fla. The new woodwork ing plants include a barrel factory at Cedar Springs, Va.; a plaining mill at Fairford, Ala., and a sawmill at Gultport, Miss. The Florence mills at Forest City. N. C, are to add $50,000 to their capital; machine shops at Portsmouth, Va., are to be enlarged, and also a sugar refinery at Abbeville, La. The new buildings of the week include business houses at Savannah, Ga,, and Bre vard. N. C; a $50,00 board of trade building at Tampa. Fla.; a $50,000 courthouse at Charlotte, N. C; a $10,000 jail at Laredo, Tex.; a $20,000 opera house at Somerset, Ky.; a $20,000 school building at Laredo, Tex.; a $16,000 residence at New Orleans, La., and a $15,000 warehouse at Mobile. Ala. AGAINST SUNDAY TRAINS. The Presbyterhtu Assembly Resolves to Petition Congress to Stop Them. The Southern Presbyterian assembly, in session at Memphis, Tenn, struck a big ques tion Friday. An overture from the synod of Texas advocating a mammoth petition to congress aud the State legislatures favoring the enactment of Sabbath "legislation. The committee recommended a negative answer. This brought some of the finest debating of the assembly. Hon. W. W. Cox, of Corinth, Miss., made a strong speech pleading for the petition. He said: ''It is the Inalienable right of each member of the Presbyteiian Church to petition the rdvil power. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the State governments have rights to pass laws forbidding the running of trains, interstate or otherwise, on the Sab bath. The great corporations are doing what the State and National governments dare not do. They deny to a large body of citizens the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. Let us do all in our power for the protection of these and other employes who are forced to labor on the Sabbath." Dr. Wodrow took the ground that this is not a Christian government and the church has no right to ask its aid for religion. The Jews have a right to be heard. ' Several fine speeches were made and the assembly decided in favor of the petition, f i" The First Presbyterian Church of . Char lotte, N. C, was selected unanimously for the place of next meeting. A paper was intro duced by Dr. J. P. Smith, of Richmond, Va., expressing sympathy with the people of Ar menia, wbiffh was adopted by a rising vote. A resolution of thanks was introduced and adopted by a rising vote. Dr. Mallard, the moderator, made some very feeling remarks. The assembly arose and sang "Blest be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts in Christian Love." The moderator then dissolved the as sembly with prayer, calling another to meet in the First Church, Charlotte, N. C, the third Tuesday in May, 1837, - SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JUNK 7. Lesson Text: "Warning to the Dis ciples,' Luke KlI., 24-37 Golden Text: Phil. H, 5 Commentary, 24. "And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest." It was the last night before Golgotha. It was the night of Getbsemane and only a few hours before that oonflict. He had eaten the passover with them and had instituted the Lord's supper. He had washed their feet and. taught them how to humble themselves. He was about to bum ble Himself unto death- for them, and they were talking of who should have the highest Elace. How alone He was! How little they new Htm! 25, 26. "He that is greatest among you let him be as the younger, and that is chief a9 he that doth serve." Let gentiles wno think much of earthly power, and to whom it is for the present given, let them talk of Lordship and ruling, but let the redeemed of the Lord, who with Him wait for the king dom, not think of reigning without Him, but rather let us think of renouncing self and of how we can best make it manifest that we are His. It is well enough for the gentiles, who live only for this world, to give special attention to what they sha'l eat and drink and wear, but those who are heirs of the kingdom are to seek first the kingdom in all Its interests, sure that our Heavenly Father, twho knoweth our need, will see to all these thines for us (Math, vi., 81-33). 27. ''I am among you as He that s?rveth." The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many (Math, xx., 23). He lived not to please Himself nor to seek His own will or glory (Rom. xv., 3; John vl.,38; viii., 60). He did not stand up for Hi3 rights, a3 we say, but 6ver did well, and oft suffered for it, and always took It patiently, leaving us an example that we should follow His steps (I Pet. ii., 20, 21). 28. "Ye are they which have continued with Me in my temptations." How kind it was of Him to say so. He must have taken the will for the deed. He has a way of mag nifying what wh would like to do for Him and of giving us credit beyond what we might think we deserve. He cannot possibly say or do wrong or over state a matter, but He reads the heart and judges according to motive and desire. Let us have more kindly Judgment for others. 29. "And I appoint unto you a 'kingdom, as My Father hath appointed unto Me.. Hear Him in His prayer a little later on that same evening, "The glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them" (Johnxvit. 22). Hear Him in His last message to the church on earth. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me on My throne, even as I" also overcame and am set, down with My Father on His throne" (Rev. ill.. 21). SO. "That yo may eat and drink at My table In My kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes ot Israel." Com pare Math, xix., 28. We may therefore ex pect to see the twelve apostles (the right one taking Judas's place) in the kingdom ruling over the twelve tribes of Israel. . Some day we shall see clearly and understand, as we cannot now, the relationship of the twelve apostles and the twelve tribes of Israel to the New Jerusalem, the Lamb's wife, of Rev. xxi. i 31. "And the Lord said, Simon, Simqn, be hold satan hath desired you, that he may sift rou as wheat." The R. V. says that satan sked for Mm. If He had been satan's roperty, like Judas, He would not have eeded to ask for him. It is a comfort that atan cannot touch a child of God without' rst obtaining permission. He had to con- Iess that God had made a fence about Job, ,nd He could not lay a finger upon Him na il God permitted Him. 32. "But I have prayed for Thee that thy faith fail not, and when thou art converted eter was one of those or whom He said. Ye are clean," and "He that is washed is lean every whit (John xiii., 10): therefore e have tne Liord sowntestirnouy tnat aimon eter was a saved man, and a truly saved an oan never be an unsaved man (John x., 7. 28). but he may wander and stumble as Simon was about to do. Then ho must turn again to the Lord and be' forgiven these wanderings and walk more humbly ; with God. How very thankful we should be that our High Priest ever liveth to make Inter cession for us. 1 33. "And he said unto Him, Lord, I am ready to go with t!iee, both into prison and to death." Poor, self confident Simon! How little he knew himself. We are to have no confidence in ourselves, but reiy wholly upon the Lord. "The only safe placa is, "Not I, but Christ." "Not 1, but the grace of God1 Gal. ii., 20; I Cor. xv., 10; Phil, iii., 3). Self confidence ledto the fallowing afar on, and that to denial of his Lord. Rather let us "Do justly, love mercy and .walk humbly With our God" (Mic. vi., 8). 84. "I tell thee. Peter, the cock shall not crow this day before thou shalt thrice deny thou knowest Me." He knew what was in Peter (John ii., 25); knew it from the begin ning, yet loved him all the way through. I have often been glad that He has never iound out anything rfBw about me; that He knew me thoroughly from the s;art and loved me when I was dead in sin. 85. "When I sent you, without purse or scrip or shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said. Nothing." That was because Hs sent them. When we go on His business, sent by Him, He will see to all the supply. : 86. "But now, he that hath a purse let him take it and likewise his scrip, and he that hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one." This at first sight looks difficult, but in the light of verse 3S I think it is easy. Had He actually intended each to have a sword He could not have said that two worda were enough for e!-ven men. What, then, did Ho mean? When He sent them, He took care of them', an i thny lacked noth-j Ing, but now, although He still sends them: He will not be with them as formally. Can they trust Him as formerly? If not, l?t thm take purse and scrip and sword and take -ar( ot themselves on thy principle that Gul helps those who help themselves. As Pete blundered with his sword, so will all blunder" 'Who trust themselves rather than Him. 87. "The things concerning Me have ani end," All would now soon be fulfilled, nd on the morrow He would b crucified a a malefactor. What, then, wou d treso poor sheep do? Could they trust their Heaveniy Father, or would all their hope bt dashed to the ground when H whom they had fol lowed had been crucified? Had th?y oniv believed all His words, and that H wool rise again, how strong they might have been Lesson Helper, j Prohibition Candidates. The ProhibitioDkt.ain sslon at Pittsburg, Pa., have nominated Jo?hna Levering, of Baltimore. Md . fur President: Hale Johnson, of Illinois, for Vice-President.. The gold de ment predominated, and the silver, or troad- guage element l tt tn convention ana or ganized a rump convention. A free-suffrage plank was adopted. Mr. Levering Is a prominent citizen of DVitimcn. H; h3S for a long time been engaged in temperance and church work. Paying the Sugar IJotinty The United States Treasury Department has begun tbe payment of the sugar bounty under the recent decision of the Supreme Court. The claims new being paid are under the $238,000 appropriation of accrued bounty due at tbe time tne xunty law was repealed. There are 4,500 of this class of claims. Thus far tfct discovery of the north pole has conferred no practical j bene fit, Cordwood, In fact, is slightly high er In price than It was before, i DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. Towns In Iowa and Illinois Almost Wiped Out. i -!.- Monday the villages of Valeria, Mingo and Santiago, Iowa, on the Chicago and Great iVestern Railroad, was nearly wiped from the face of the earth by a cyclone, and adjacent counties were laid waste with considerable loss ot life and great destruction of railway and other property. The storm occurred between 9 and 10 o'clock, accompanied by a deafening roar, a deluge of rain and haiL Its track was several miles in length and from a quarter to a half a mile in width. Reports say fourteen wore killed at Valeria, and five at Mingo. At Santiago, Mr. and Mrs. Bal lenbaugh and grandchild was killed. The following buildings were wrecked in Valeria: Chicago and Or eat Western depot, one drug store, three general stores, post-ofnoe. Catho lic church, one creamery, two blacksmith shops, and twenty-five dwellings. . In Valeria, seven members of a family named Failous, father, mother and five children, were found dead among tbe wreckage in one room. Two children named Aikens, two ladle named Dlokey and Mrs. Osoorn, were also killed outright. The prop erty loss Is estimated at over $100,000. A great amount of live stock was killed and the crops in the path of the storm utterly destroyed. The list of killed stands as follows: Jasper County, la., 10; Polk County, la., ; Rook ford, 111., 4; Elgin. III., 1; North McGregor, la., 12; Durango, la., 5; Fort Soott, Kan., 2. The storm wrought its greatest havoo in Iowa, where the counties of Polk and Jasper were devastated by two tornadoes. At Chicago basements were flooded and . considerable damage done. Two Inches of rain fell. At Elgin, John Keough, engineer of the State Insane Asylum, was killed by a lalliDg chimney. The Elgin Sewing Machine and Bicycle factory was blown down. At Rockford four killed and many injured, a number of them fatally, is the result of the cyclone, besides great loss to property and the complete destruction of crops. CONDITION OF THE CROPS. Cotton and Corn Generally Good, But Cereals are Below the Average. ' The weekly weather and crop bulletin of the department of agriculture at Washing ton contains the following reports of cr&p conditions throughout the 8 uth : . Virginia Richmond Droughty conditions which have been prevailing were broken by the rain of last week; general improvement ' all crops noticeable; winter wheat heading short; rosebugs threaten destruction of grapo crop in Rocklnghajn county; potato buga doing some damage.; i North Carolina Raleigh Temperatures . above normal, and excess of precipitation in central portion very favorable; drought still continues In West and along Southeast coast; minor damago by hall 17 counties;, wheat ripening, short but with good heads; oats a failure; cotton and corn in excellent condition. South Oarollna Columbia Unevenly dis-. tributed showers exoept over southeastern portion, where drought continues; corn im proving, is healthy, clean and earliest ready to lay by; cotton within exception well culti vated, clean and healthy, chopping nearly finished, squares forming plentifully; fruit and minor field crop generally poor. Georgia Atlanta Another very hot week, but crop i conditions slightly improved by local showers; crops clean ana wen cultiva ted, and cotton standing drougnt well; com needs rain badly; fruit coutluuea to shed; gardens and pastures drying up rapldlj . Tennessee Nashville Good rains gener ally over the State; great improved condition of growing and matrlng crops; too much rain in western section; crops getting grassy; wheat ripening and in fairly good condition ; corn and cotton grwing weli; tobacco area mostly set and plants doing well. CLOUD BURST IN MISSOURI. Several People Drowned and Much ; Properly Destroyed. Two cloudbursts occurred in Newton county, Kansas, at an early hour Saturday morning, one at Kansas City and the other at Seneca. ; One life was lo t at Kansas City and twetfty-seven at Seneca. At Sylvesto, two were drowned by the overturning of a boat while being taken from the flood. The con dition of Seneca is pitiable. It is a town of 1,200 Inhabitants, sixteen miles west of here, and is situated in a valley. The water was from four to six feet deep in every business house, i Many buildings were washed away. At 8eneca nine bodies have been recovered. but the names could not be ascertained: In dications now point to another storm, in which even the damage to life and property will be greater. Tbe damage to Seneca prop erty will reach $150,000. The office of the Seneca Dispatch was washed away, together with the Methodist church and half of the buildings in Miia street. I The property damage is estima.ed at 50,000. ' - A DEVASTATING CYCLONE. i ' ..... Kansas Again Visited by a Destructive Storm. i . A tornado passed through the western part of Neodesha county early Sunday morning. La Fontaine, a village of 200 souls, was al most destroyed. Two business houses, the Missouri Pacific depot and the Christian church was wrecked and almost every -house in tha village was damaged. A score of farm houses north', east and west were destroyed Aaron Edwards, a farmer, was latally In jured and many others severely hurt. The aggregate lows on Dunaings ana property is $25,000. Hail and rain accompanied the wind and destroyed every vestige of vegeta tion. The damage to crops is Incalculable. The area of the damaged district is about 75 square miles. IT 13 ABSOLUTELY , The Best SEWING j MACHINE ' MADE rv xz AfTR DEALERS can oell you machines cheaper Yhan you can get elsewhere. The NEW HOTIB l our best, but we make cheaper kJuds, such, mm tbe CLITIAX, IDEAL and. .h.. ifi.h Arm i?nll fflekel Platea Sewlne Machines for $15.00 aud ur. Call on our azent or wrlto us. o want your trade, cad If rice-t?vn kui-quare dealing will win, we wlU ba-ro It. We challenge the world to produce a BETTKlt $50.00 Machine for $50.00, or a better $20. Bowing Blacnlne for 820.0O than you can buy from as, or our Acents. THE HEW HOME SEWISGMiCBIFECO. j ,,: FOR ALE CY AINEY fc JORDAN Puon, N. 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The Democratic Banner (Dunn, N.C.)
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