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OMTY - . 1 : 'PROVE ALL THINGS AND HOLD FAST THAT WHICH IS GOOD" VOL- IV. DUNN, N., C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1896- NO. 24. I TO - I . I .1. NORTH STATE GDLLINGS. TEKKlBLli STATE O F .AFFAIRS. One Wnire Cap Desperado Killed and . One Other Wounded. -The people of Imcama, in Wilson County, have been greatly incensed of nwr rienredations committed nnon iaiv - it a nrnnprtv of Li. F. "Lucas. A canty tf law breakers had torn down his -i j - a i fence time ana time again ana ournea ihe mils. Not satisfied with this tbev letermined to burn two new tobacco barns. Mr. J-iucas and five friends secreted themselves near the 'barns, and awaited farther developments. Some men ap proached the barns, and four went to the residence of Mr. Lucas when they vtro ignited. The four men, who went to the house of Mr. Lucas, seeing i,.-f no men approaching, and thinkincr " & W". KJ thit it niilit be Lucas and his son, fired. H on them, killing Rob Watson iusta'itly and dangerously wounding .T.thro iiowe. as ;tney wore white caps it is inferred that they were on tlitir w iy t yAt the gang of despera does, ant fell at the hands of their 6 'n friends. - TI1K STATK GUARD. The Fourth Regiment Will Encamp at Charlotte. The corning encampment of the Fourth Regiment, - North Carolina State Cluard, is to beheld in Charlotte, end the plan is to make it a practical military affair. The troops are to see actual service. The plan is to 'consol idate p.ll the companies embracing the Fourth Itegiment at Statesville, and to march from there to Charlotte. The distance .is 14 miles, but the march will be divided into stages so that four days will be required to make it. The Queen City Guards will have the Gatling gun and how itzer, there will be outposts and rear guard, and all the features of; an ar tillery and infantry march through the country. 'The regiment will be in (ommand of Col. Arm field, and will be accompanied on the march by Maj. E. Hayes and Inspector General A. L. Smith. The encampment grounds at Charlotte will be at Latta Park. STATE GEOLOGICAL BOARD. Important Pleasures Refore the Meet ing- The State Geological Board j was in session at the Governor's office at Raleigh Thursday. Present: Governor Curr, Maj. Morehead, Maj. Telfair and StiiteGeologist"Holmes. The prinoipal matters brought before the board were tlie plans for the work of the survey during the present summer and autum in which the State Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey co-operate. The mobt important new work .under taken is that of measuring the water tnpp i s and gauging the more impor tant rivers of the State in order to de termine the value of the water powers on these streams for manufacturing purposes. Reports oh iron ores, gold deposits, road materials, forests of Eastern North Carolina, forest fires. Ccradum and monazite have already been published.- Reports on water powers and timber trees of North Carolina are now in press. ' Keports on clayp, mica, building stone; gold uTiamg; drinking water supplies; clay lejio8it; mineral waters, and several other subjects are now being proposed. The trnstees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College re-elect the old of ficers and faculty and employ Lieuten ant Barnes regularly, as military in structor. They find the affairs and equipment of the college in good con dition. Experiments in forcing early vegetables under glass are ordered aade for the benefit of truckers. Rev. W."R. Warren, of Pawtucket. I., is preparing a book on North Carolina, and has made, a request of me Agricultural Department for a number of views, etc.- to illustrate it. The department, which never loses an opportunity to advertises the State, sent him forty photographs. ... The Board of Acrionlture orders Commissioner Patterson to hold many farmers institutes this year. Some of the vorv larrva An an1am. meat of the State Experiment Station is -also ordered. The hand book is ap proved. The faeultv Forest College are determined to allow no seciet fraternities there. They nave also forbidden the members of a local 6eeret society to return unless th f J abandon the same. Ibe First, Second and Third Beai- fcents of the State Guard.have decided that they desire their encampment at rigbtville. C'lawfo.d Fifddpr ha Kecrro xehn dardere.l Will r; ru-wto jt October, died in the county jail iat Tuesdav. VarJ about 100 are Pno-aced at nresent & making brick. The railroads have made a rata of 1 iwV mile for the transporUtion of - iaie Unard to camp. TW MEN MURDERED Ilf BED. A Horrlble and Mysterious Crime In Columbia County, Oa. special to the Chronicle from Harlem, pays: a. T. Terdoy and George Ed . 0nds of Columbia county, living six miles th01JHarlem, were brutally murdered at the tJ hme or Edmunds. They were both at- -fced while asleep in bed. the murderer room vlge 8tick whIch was found in the the iw ht7 wer0 both horribly beaten in identity clae has been obtained to the OUR NAVY'S CREATEST FIGHTER. Th T7nltd State Battleship Indiana, Now Z.TlnK In tbe Harbor of New Tort. D1 Awaiting Farther Orders From tbo Nar Department. ' - ZZ ' " m - j THE BATTLESHIP INDIANA. of N Vork 8frorm JV&St V far co She arrived at the Por five month? Hampton Roads a few days since. She has been in commission aoout TO PLAN THE NEW CITY. Governor Mortbn Names the Greater New York Commission. MEN CHOSEN FOR THE WORK. Complete Commission Stands Politically i Republicans, 11 ; Democrats, 4 All j Interests Are Protected Setli Low, General Tracy, John F. Dillon and Comptroller Fitch Named for New York. Albany, N. Y., June 10. Governor Morton yesterday named the nine Commissioners who, with the six designated by law, will draft a charter for Greater New York. They are: Seth Low, President of Colombia College and formerly Mayor of Brooklyn. General Benjamin F. Tracy, once Judge of the Court ot Appeals and Secretary of the Navy during President Harrison's adminis tration. John F. Dillon, former Judge of the United States Circuit Court. SETH LOW. (He heads the list of Greater City Commis sioners.) " Ashbel P. Fitch, lawyer. Comptroller of the City of New York and formerly a mem ber of Congress. General Stewart L. Woodford, lawyer and once Lieutenant-Governor. Silas B. Dutcher, banker, former State Superintendent of Public Works. William C. De Witt, lawyer, formerly Cor poration Counsel of Brooklyn. George M. Pinney, Jr., District Attorney of Richmond County. Garrett J. Garretson, County Judge of Queens County. , COMPARATIVE AREA OF The first four represent New York and the next three Brooklyn. Richmond and Queens Counties each have one representative. The six members named in the Greater New York law are: ' Andrew H. Green, President of the old Greater New York Commission, formerly Comptroller ot the city of New York. Campbell W. Adams, State Engineer. AJTDBXW H. OSXXN. (Originator of the project and President of the old Commission.) Theodore E. Hancock, Attorney-General of the State. ' William L. Strong. Mayor of VawTork. Frederick W. Wurster, Mayor of Brooklyn. Patrick. Gleason, Mayor ot Long Jsiand cat " . - jf LONDON- ( -6RATNeV. rUgtS JftgRLtM. ' J V .'688.31 V - 3S95 29V 7 " I if itA. Y Vienna A (Waffi (jBafl v in 7 k ts?v f - , There are four Democrats on the Com mission. They are Mayor Gleason, Mr. Green, Comptroller Fitch and Mr. De Witt. Of the eleven Republicans District Attorney Pinney, of Rtcnmond County; County Judge Garretson, of Queens; State Engineer Adams and Attorney-General Hancook are organization men, and General Tracy, Mr. Dillon, Mr. Dutcher and General Woodford are counted as friendly to the or- MAYOB W. Xj. STROSO, OF NEW TOBK. (A member of the Greater New York Com mission ) ganization. Mayors Strong and Wuretf r and Mr. Low are considered as anti-organization Republicans. The appointment of Mr. Low Is said to have been made without the ap proval of the organization. There is no Tam many man on the Commission. Mr. Fitch is not a member of the Tammany Hall organi sation. Nine of the Commissioners are lawyers. Messrs. Green. Fitch and De Witt, by their experience In - municipal office, and Mr. Green by his long and thorough study of the problems ot consolidation, are con sidered peculiarly fitted to assist in mak ing a charter for the new city. Ex-JuBge Dillon is a recognized authority and a writer of text books on municipal law, while General Tracy is a leader at the bar. The youngest member ot the Commission Is District Attorney George M. Pinney, Jr., of St. George's. Richmond County. Mr. Pinney came from San Francisco nine or ten years ago, and studied law with Evarts, Choate it Beaman. Notwithstanding the legal leaning of the Commissioners, counsel probably two or three will be appointed to assist in the preparation of the charter. All of the gentlemen appointed by the Governor have been ardent advocates of consolidation, although Mr. Low was op posed to the present law, as he thought con solidation ought not to be effected until a charter was prepared. Mr. Low and Gen eral Tracy, who are credited to New York GREATER NEW YORK City by the Governor, have always been looked on as Brooklyn men. , Duties of the Commission. Under the terms of the Greater New York act, this Commission must prepare a charter for the greater city, and submit it to the Legislature by February 1, 1897, and shall cease to exist on March 1 of the same year. The Commission has power to make complete investigation of the municipal corporations to be consolidated; to subpoena and swear witnesses; to examine public records and documents of these municipalities, and to make any inquiry which they may deem necessary to the framing of a charter for the greater city. The ComnvBSionmay employ counsel and other persons that they may deem necessary for the prosecution ot the work. The oharter which the Commission Is charged with framing must be one of uni formity, drawn upon the principle of uniloim taxation for the entire consolidated terri tory. The expenses of the Commission are limited to 25,000, which shall be raised by the cities of New York and Brooklyn. Swept ty Tornmdo. A small manufacturing town of Wyeth City, Ala., was mowed down like grass by a tornado. Thirteen houses were razed, many barns and outbuildings swept away, trees uprooted and fences and other obstructions lifted into the air and set down hundreds of yards away. Perhaps eighty persons re sided in tne track ot the storm, but by a miracle only two were killed outright, and these were struck by lightning. Justice Pipe, of Colorado, has rendered a decision that the recent State law prohibiting gambling 1 uoonstttutlcxial. THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS A Synopsis of the Proceedings of Both Houses. THE SENATE. 8ATUBDAT. " MONDAY. The Senate passed the new general de ficiency bill Monday in less than three quarters of an hour. Ordinarily a bill of 130 printed pages would have taxed the pow ers of the reading clerk for at least two hours; but the reading of this bill was com pleted in half an hour. An attempt was made by-Mr. HarEi3, Democrat, of Tennessee, to have the claims under the Bowman act, aggregating about half a million dollars placed in tbe bill; but they were ruled out on a point of order and the bill was promptly passed without amendment. Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, introduced, and the Senate passed, a bill appropriating 68,560 to pay the Rich mond Locomotive and Machine Works for damage and loss incurred in the construction of the armed battleship T xas. TtJBSDAT, Very satisfactory progress In clearing up the odds and ends" of legislative work of the session was made by the Senate Tuesday. Final conference reports on the naval appropriation bill and on the Indian appropriation bill were presented and agreed to. In the Daval bill a compro mise was made reducing the number of battleships to three and directing tha no contracts should be made for armor plate until after the Secretary ot the Navy shall have inquired into the cost ot manufacture and shall have made a report to Congress. The question of contract schools in the Ia dian bill was compromised on the basis of allowing them (where there are no other schools, to take th9lr place) during the fiscal year 1897. A supplementary deficiency bill for compensation and mileage of new mem bers of the House of Representatives wa3 passed.; It appropriates about $40,000. i WEDNESDAY. In spite of the fact that it was generally believed that Wednesday would be the last day of the session, there was a rather slim attendance in the galleries, and the day's proceedings were devoid of interest or ex citement. The following bills were passed: Increasing the pay of letter carriers; to pre vent the transportation of spirituous liquors under false names. The bill increasing the pension of Francis E. Hoover was passed over the President's veto. The latter part of the day's session was occupied by Mr. Stewart, Populist, of Nevada, and Mr. But ler, Populi3t, of North Carolina, arraigning generally Congress and the administration. A concurrent resolution for final adjornment Thursday at 4 o'clock was agreed to. THUESDAY. The first session or the Fifty-fourth Congress gently, and quietly, almost without incident, glided into history Thursday, the .-shortest ''long" session of Congress, with t wo exceptions, in the history of the govern ment. There was a marked difference be tween the close to-day and that of the Fifty-, first Col gress, the last previous Republican ongress. Then a bitter conflict raged be tween Speaker Reed and th minority and no one of the latter was found to introduce the usual resolution of thanks to the presiding officer. To-day Mr. Turner, the second Democratic member of the committee on ways and means, acting for the minority In the absence of ex-Speaker Crisp, offered a resolution thanking Speaker Reed for the "ability, faithfulness and strict Impar tiality" with which he had discharged the duties of his difficult position, and at the suggestion of Mr. Dockery and other Demo crats, there was a rising vote, that the ex pression of heartiness back of the resolution might thereby be emphasized. In his closing remarks Speaker Reed offered his grateful recognition for the honor, saying, "The thanks of the House of Representatives is always a high honor, but Is especially so at the end of a session where the Speaker has been forced to say no' more times, perhaps, than in the history of any other Congress. In the course of the session a number of private pension and relief bills were passed, and Representatives Pitney, Republican, of Kansas, and Dockery, Democrat, of Missouri, were appointed members on the part ct the House of the commission to sit during the summer and investigate the charities of the District of Columbia. THE HOUSE. SATCBDAY. MONDAY. The House sat eight hours Monday in con tinuation of Saturday's session; by this par liamentary fiction continuing in effeot the resolution of hist week, making in order motions to pass bills under suspension of the rule;. Tbe House conferees have offered a compromise to the Senate conferees on the Indian appropriation bill which will be ac cepted and this bill together with the naval bill will be got out of the way early Tuesday morning. The House will agree to the former conference report, outtlng off appro priations for sectarian Indian sonools at the end of the next fiscal year, with a proviso that the Secretary of the Interior be in structed to divide the appropriations as evenly as possible during the nextslscal year between the various denominations. This will end the sectarian school question and remove the one great stumbling block that has for several days stood in the way of ;i final settlement of this question. TUESDAY, Tuesday, the day before which Congress is confidently expected to finally adjourn for the session, the House spent sixand a half hours in the consideration of va contested election case Truman H. Aldrich, Republi can, vs. Oscar W. Underwood. Democrat, from the Ninth Alabama district. There was considerable Republican opposition to the recommendation of the committee, and the resolution declaring Aldrich entitled to his seat was agreed to by less than ten majority, the vote being 116 yeas; 107 nays. The final conference reports on the Indian appropria tion bills were agreed to amid applause. WEDNESDAY. Wednesday the business of the first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress was practically oncluded by the agreement of the two bodies upon the sundry ciil and District of Colum bia appropriation bills, the c nly remaining matters of difference between the two houses when they met this morning. To accom plish this the House voted to concur with the Senate in its amendments to the sundry civil bill appropriating, direct and contin gent $900,000 for certain public buildings. This vote 100 yeas to 88 nays demonstrated what had been feared would not be found. The Senate agreed with the House provision In the District bill, cutting off appropriations to religious, benevolent and charitable institu tions, amended so as to make the new policy effective after June 30, 1897. Previous to reaching this conclusion the House pat-sed many measures under suspension of the rules. THURSDAY. If the first session of the Fifty-fourth Con gress has been a "done-nothing st ssion," as had been predicted, the closing day of the Senate furnished a fitting culmination to the session. It was a day of Inactive, drifting, laborious effort to kill time by doing nothing, when, according to the concurrent resolution agreed to Wednesday, the two houses were to adjourn. The Senate was called to order at 11 o'clock when the District of Columbia ap propriation bill was received and immediate ly signed the Vice President, thus disposing of thelatt of the general appropriation bills, so far as the legislative branch was concerned. The galleries were almost deserted during the early hours of the session, but when the Vice-President delivered his valedictory he had a good sized audience in the galleries, though there were but twenty-five Senators present. at that interesting moment. As the Vice-President uttered the, lat-t words, and the gavel fell for the last time, there was a faint outburst of applause, after which the scene of many stirring incidents was left to the pages and attendants until the first Mon day In December next. The onion is an historic vegetable, fcaving been used since the dawn of Jhlstory by the Greeks, the Romans and thd Egyptians, ' TELEGRAPHIC TICKS. The Moore Cycle Company of South Milwaukee, Wis., has assigned. Aa atets $200,000- Libilties considerably loss. - The grand jury at Camden, N. J., found thirteen indictments against ex City Treasurer F. A. Michelton, who in. alleged to be short in hia accounts to that city $10,700. It reported that the steamer Com mordure is to clear for Aspinwall from Charleston, B. C, soon, but in reality 6pe is to steer for Cuba with 1,200,000 rounds of ammunition, 7,500 Reming ton rifles, and 2,000 pounds of dyma ,mite. T'fia fiTKTflfyflTYiOTit nf Itfisa dctrtmAei YanaerDilt, daughter of uorneiius yanderbilt, to Henry Payne Whitney, son of William C. WhitDey, was an nounced in New York Wednesday. The engagement has been rnmored from time to time for several months, but not until Wednesday was it authori tatively announced. ANOTHER VETO. The President Points Out Objections in General Deficiency B11L The President Saturday sent to the House of Representatives his veto of the General Deficiency bill. The French spoliation claims, carrying over $1,000,000, the Bow man and Choteau claims, are the principal objections to the measure pointed out by the President, who. in his message says: j 'The unpleasant incident:, which accom pany the use of the veto power would tempt us avoidance if such a course did not in- oivean aoandoment of Constitutional duty, nd assent to legislation for which the Elec tive is not willing to share the responsi- llity." "I regret that I am constrained to disap prove an important appropriation bill so iear the close of the present session of Con gress. I have, however, bv immediate ac tjion of the receipt of the bill endeavored to jelay as little as possible a reconsideration of this proposed legislation, though I am thus bilged to content myself with a less com plete explanation of my objections than ouia otherwise be submitted; This bill is in many of its features far re oved from a legitimate deficiency bill and ontalns a number of appropriations which eem to me 'to be q uestionable. With- ut noticing In detail many of these items, shall refer to two of them which, in my judgment, ju3tifymy action in the prem- Tes." The President fhen takes up the French Spoliation claims and after reviewing the basis and progress of the claims concludes J '"From that time the plan was conceived to charge the government with payment of hese claims, they have abided in the atmos ihere of controversy. Every proposition presented in their support has been stoutly disputed and every inference suggested in their favor has been promptly challengel." RAILROAD REVIVAL. 1 "he Manufacturers' Record Reports a Decided Movement. The Manufacturers' Record, reviewing outhern business conditions for the week, rporss that despite the political turmoil, t le past week has seen the consummation of b iore important contracts for industrial and railroad enterprises than have been closed i l any one week for many months. Every undertaking reported in this sum mary is of the most substantial character, the capital for which has been provided ajid nothing is included that is simply pro jected. It is true that negotiations have been pending for many of these under takings for some months, the preliminary vork, as in all cases, taking much time, but t le contracts for all "of them have been re ported during the past week. The aggre gate of contracts closed for the week for railroad construction is over buu mnes, in- uding the building of several hundred lies in South Carolina and Georgia, which, connection with existing short lines, will velop a 600-mile system, controlled in the terest of Charleston. One hundred and frty miles have been let to contract in Texas oh the extension of the Kansas City. Pitts burg and Gulf road; three contracts have been Closed on the Charleston, Clendenin and SuttSn road in West Virginia, and a contract fir'. 26 miles In Tennessee. THE CROP OF COTTON IN EGYPT. he Acreage Has Been Larirely In- creased This Year. Frederic C. Penfleld, United States diplo matic agent and consul general at Cairo, 6i nds a forecast of the Egyptian cotton crop for 1896-7 to the State Department at Wash ington. He says that, inspired by the high prices realized by the cotton crop of 1895-6. Egyp tian planters have Increased the area this spring to the maximum limits permitted by tlpe country's irrigation facilities. . Exact figures are not procurable, but it is estima t d that the increase of acreage Is from 5 t 8 per cent, and that this season's area ap proximates 1,150,000 acres. The greatest percentage of increase is in the provinces pouth of Cairo. Con-ervative forecasters be lieve the crop will yield 750,000 bales of 750 pDunds being the equivalent ot 1,125,000 American bales, and the largest ever raised h the Nile, valley. Predicated on the yearly increase of ship ments to America, it is probable that the Ujalted States will buy 65,000 bales, equal to about 400,000 ba s of American weight, of the next Fgyptian crop. GHINESE IN BOND. The Sureties Hot Released Now Except On Proof of Re-exportation. Under a new ruling of the Treasury de partment the sureties on bonds given to per mit Chinese to land In this country must fur nlkh, before they are released from liability, a P certificate of the collector of the port of de parture showing that the Chinese let in have le t the country witnin the twenty days limit. This ruling is the result of a case that occur- red three months ago, when four Chinamen werej admitted with proper bonds ana sure- tics, . and when a doubt arose as to. whet her thie ?y had really left the country within twen days the burden was put on the govern- m nt to prove that tney bad not. Spain Anxious for War. A dispatch from Springfield, O., says; Jimes Creelman, an exiled Cuban war cor respondent, says he thinks there will be war with Spain, lie asserts tnat tne American DCODle will be thunderstruck when the docu ments in possession of the State Department are made public Spain, he says, Is anxious for war. xwenty-nve million aoiiars worm of American property has been destroyed in Cjuba, according to his story, and many Americans have been killed without provo cation. Rouss Memorial Battle Abbey. The committee at Nashville, Tenn.. to raise funds for the Rouss Memorial Battle Abbey, in case it should be located at that city, has started to work. Gen. W. H. Jackson. owner ot Belle Meade, started off the list with $2,500. It is the purpose to raise 100, 000 in addition to the f 115,000 already raised there, this latter sum including the Bite. LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF. GLICAIf lit GS FROM MANY POINTS Important Happening s, .Both Home and Foreign, Biefly Told. Southern News Notes. Tuesday was generally observed throughout Virginia as Memorial day. In 1898 the Southern Conference of the Christian Church is to meet in Raleigh, N. C. The Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor met in I-ouisville, Ky., in its 23d annual session Tuesday. It is rumored that Hamlet, N. C, is to get the S. A. Li. shops, which was recently burned at Raleigh. Rev. M. G. G. Scherer, of Concord, N. C, has accepted the presidency of North Carolina Lutheran College at Mt. Pleasant. Louis Whitehead, George Johnson and Jim Reddick, three negroes, were taken from the jail at Bryan, Texas, Wednesday night and hanged by a mob. " The Southern Railroad has recently hauled three car-loads of melons to the Northern markets, and in a week or so the melons will be sent by the train loads. , I A letter read in Richmond, Va., re cently from Mrs. Jefferson Davis, says she would gladly be present during the Confederate re-union at the Davis mansion. Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture at Washington, D. C.j, addressed the graduates of the Univer sity of Tennessee Tuesday on the sub ject of "Citizenship." The United States cruiser Raleigh passed out from New York at Sandy Hook Monday on her way to Charleston and New Orleans for the purpose of taking the South Carolina and Louisia na naval militia out to sea for instruc tion. ; ' A. T. Verdery and George Ed munds, of Columbia county, Ga., liv ing six miles from Harlem, were bru tally murdered Wednesday night at the home of Edmunds. They were both attacked while asleep in bed. The murderer used a large stick which was found in tbe room. There is no clue to the guilty party, and the crime is wrapped in mystery. ! . Dr. E. P. Beadles, of Danville, Va., corresponding secretary of the South ern Dental Association, has just issued notices for the annual meeting, which will be held this year in Asheville, N. C, commencing the 28th of July. This association is composed of lead ing men in the profession from nearly every State in the Union, and has per haps, the largest membership of any Dental Association in the world. Dr. John S. Thompson, of Atlanta, Ga., is president. I Northern News Items. j It will take $150,000 to make the necessary repairs on Bartholdi's statue of Liberty in New York harbor. ! At Ottawa, Kans., Tuesday, seven teen people were injured by the falling of a portico. ' , i Rev. Dr. Dixon, the Brooklyn, N. Y., noted Baptist divine, has declined the call from the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Ga. He says he will re main in Brooklyn, where he is doing a splendid - work in the cause of the Baptists: j Washington, j j Secretary Olney has received a cablegram from Vice Consul Knight at Capetown, saying that J ohn Hayes Hammond and the other reform lead ers had been released. Theyf were fined $25,000 with no banishment. j It is said that James Lafitte Smith, a clerk in the Washington -postoffice, is the postoffice clerk who sold the first postage stamp and tbe first stamped envelope ever issued by this Govern ment, and who registerek the first let ters that were presented for registry when the system of mail perfection was introduced in the United States. He entered the postoffice as a clerk in 1847, and is now 79 years old. Foreign. A Havana dispatch says that a train which left San Nicolas with a number of workmen on board to repair damages along the line of the railroad is reported to' have been blown up with dynamite. Several workmen were injured. Mrs. Annie Dyer, of London, En gland, the baby farmer who was ar rested on April 9th, on charge of murdering a number of infants entrus ted to her care, was hanged in New gate Wednesday. She was one of the most extraordinary criminals in the world. Miscellaneous. Hundreds of horses, sheep and hogs are dying of 'anibrax in portions of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 2,512,002 bales, of which 2,028,802 bales are American, against 3,626,408 bales and 3,200,208 bales re spectively last year. Crop in sight, 6,812,592 bales. A DIAMOND SMUGGLER. He Get a Year's Imprisonment and a $200 Fine. Herman Keck, a diamond merchant ot Cincinnati, O., who was recently convicted ia the United States district court for at tempting to smuggle diamonds valutd at $7,000 into Philadelphia port from Antwerp, han been sentenced to one year's imprison ment in the ' eastern penitentiary and fined t200. Captain Loeswitz of the steamer Byn land has also been indicted on tbe same charge, the jewels having been brought here pa that vessel. WKATHER-CROP BULLETIN Of the North Carolina Climate land j j Crop Service. Below will be found the climate and crop service report, as issued for i the past week, by Director H. B. Battle, Ph. D., of Raleigh: V Eastern j District. The past week has been cool and cloudy, with fre quent rains, setting in fair and warmer on Saturday. It is still dry oyer limited portions of the middle coast, but in general, ample rains have fal len over the District this week. In the north, from Halifax eastward to Chowan, and especially over Gates county, there was j too much rain, causing corn to turn yellow and drown ing some on lowlands, besides making crops very grassy and preventing farm' work. In the south daily gentle rains were just suited ; for growth! - i of crops, which progressed : rapidly here and are clean, j Corn generally is fine, much of it in silk and tassel, j and being laid by. Cotton in south looks well and clean, good stand, first forms reported June 2d; in north it is not so good on account of cool weather. Lice reported on cotton in several places. Transplanting tobacco over, crop growing well, but worms have appear ed in abundance, j Farmers almost through setting sweet potatoes. Ship ments of Irish potatoes and beans pre ceeding. Irish potato crop generally poor; fine tops but no tubers. Cutting wheat and planting field-peas now in order. Blackberries and huckleberries now in market. . j J Ckntbaii District. Cool and elbudy weather prevailed, with plenty of rain and deficiency of sunshine until j Sat urday. Over most of the District the rainfall was gentle and beneficial, but heavy rains washed lands in a few counties (chiefly Guilford and Ran dolph). Grass is increasing among crops and farmers are getting behind with their work, but a week of j fair weather will remedy this state of affairs. Corn is extra promising, j and is being laid by slowly. Harvesting wheat is in full blast, with crop . short but. heads well filled; some fields were tangled by jraiu and wind, and some: damage by chinch bugs still reported. Oats apparently not so bad as expected, Hand spring oats improved during past two weeks. The greater part of the cotton !crop continues j in good condition, about all chopped, land forming squares in south; on light, thin lands cool nights caused a little yellowing. Lice re ported at many plaoes. Tobacco nearly all transplanted, except where drought hitherto prevented (Forsyth county), where setting is progressing, crop growing well. Irish potatoes poor. Bowing peas on stubble land. Western District. Fine rains, oc curred on the 3d and 4th, breaking the drought almost (everywhere, j and greatly benefitting all crops. Oals were improved by the showers, though much of the crop has been injured be yond recovery by the dronght. ' porn and ootton are doing finely tdnce the rains. It was a fine season on tobacco plants recently set out, and also on po tato slips.; Rain assisted greatly in bringing up "lately planted, cotton. Peas are beiDg planted in fields now. Grapes are generally reported as doing nicely. Harvesting of wheat was tho chief work of the j week; crop short, but grain good. Rain stopped work, but crops not sufferine for want of cultivation. AMAZONS IN CUBA. Four Companies of I Woman Fighting Under MaceoIJls Army, j It has been learned at Key West, Fla., on undisputablo; authority that Macco has an army of 20.000 men and ttey are strbngly fortified In the mountains of Pinar del Rio, the Spaniards having jutterly failed to Idrive them from j their strongholds. Macep has eight cannon, two i of i which were captured from the "trocha" on his recent attack,when it wa3 reported that he was repulsed. I The report that Maceo has four companies of women soldiers has been confirmed, j The Cuban women Lave such a dread of Spanish brutality, that many of tbem ptefer fighting on the battlefields beside their husbands and brothers being thrown into the forts at the Spaniards' mercy. In Maceo's recent at tack on the trocha, tbese amazons took part and fought fiercely, using machetes on the Spaniards. The attack was made North of Ban Marcus and General Bermudez crossed into Habaea province with 1,500 men. i Another Dividend Declared. The bondholders of the Cotton States and International Exposition Company have de clared another dividend of 15 per cent, pay able on Saturday, June 13th. It is expected that another dividend will be declared in tb near future, amounting to something like 13 per cent The holders considered the matter or disposing of the buildings, but as yet no nnai action nas oeen taken. rr is ABSOLUTELY The Best SEWING MACHINE MADE SAVE MONEY xri ar rtrrn nt?Af,ElKS eaa Mil ... yoa machines cheaper than yottean get elaewhere. The SEW H02HB U our best, but we make cheaper kinds, tneh mm the CI.IOTAX, MAI innd other Illeh Arm Full Itlekel Plated Sewing machines for $15. OO and up. Call on onr agent orwrite us. want yonr trade. d If orlee. ttrn luareaeaiing will win, we whl havs tt. We challenge the world to produce a BETTER. 50.00 SeiviiJ Machine Tor $50.00, or a better $20. Sewing Machine for f 20.00 than yoa can buy from us, or our Aeents. i THE HEW HOME SE tZISG H&CHIF.E CO. ! OB SALE BY BAINET & JORDAN T)unp, K C, i 1 r.rx "rO-TViir
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