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Toltcr.Salt-nhc-.nu and Eczema.
Tho intense itching nniUmarting.inci-
lenttolhesouiscastE.isinstaiitlyallayea
y applying Chamberlain s iyo ana ;
havo been permanently cured by it. ' It
is equally efficient tor itching piles and
a favorite remedy for eore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
nnd chronic core eyes. 23 cts.per box.
ir. Cady'-; Condition Powders, aro j
inst what a, horse needs when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermiin.e. .mey aro not iooa out .
tr.edicire and tEc best in use to put a j
hor.-e in prime condition. Price 23
cents p:-r prxha3.
For Ealo by N
N. C.
B. Ilood, Dunn,
Prof czzion til Cards.
XiSiES.H. Pou. Edward W. Toe.
W. II. Young.
JPOU cC- POU & I
OTTNG
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Atiorno5-s at katv,
LILLINGTON. N. C.
(Associated in tbe trial cf civil ease?)
ia the Bnperior courts of llaroett Co.
J. C. CLIFFORD,
Attorney tit Law.
DUNN, N. C.
ATill prnctieo in all tho courts of the
6tuto nlitio services desired.
Jj. J. JiFST,
Attorney at Iaw,
DUNN,. N. C.
Practice in County Conrti
nelt t:?id feurronuclina:
counties
'J. Conrta.
coileclioLs.
Special
attention''
given
7, II. 31' LIZ A JY,
Counsellor and Attorney ut Larv.
DUNN, N. C.
PrucacG ia all courts. Collections a
specialty.
w. f. Jiunciiisoy,
J jones fiaiio, n. a.
Practices law in Il-irnett, Moore and
other couuiks, but not for fan. 3 201y.
ISAAC A. JIURCIIISON
Fayejteville, N. C.
Practices law in Cumberland Har
nett and anywhere services are wanted.
WILMINGTON & WELD.ON R, R.
AND BRANC0ES.
AND FLO HENCE RAILROAD.
Condensed Sc'iedale Dated Jan. i7th, I53S.
Tr;AT:;3 going south.
Xcavo Wold en ll 52 am. 9 43 nm.
Arrivo U-U y ZL -.u-it 12 55 am", lO SGpm.
L' jtv. T-iri-oro 12 12 nm. G 01 p m.
Lnvo It. cky 31 u,.. 1 OJ am, 1038 pm,
C -15 itm. ,j 4) in'!. 12 47 nm .
' L-nvo Uii-rjv 2 20 urn, 11 1G pm, 7 17 pm,
C22 Ji'ii. 2 37 pin.
. L'-avu- Hjima 3 15 ani.
l.t.tvo F.iy. tieviSie 4 47 am. 1 14 pm.
Arnvi- rinri'iie-.t 7 3,5 am, 3 15 pm.
Arr.vo (loldshoro CD pm.
Lo ive G -id-boro 7 01 ma. 3 0 pm.'
L' iiva rd u'nolia 8 0 am. 4 24 pm.
Arrivo Vii:ni!gton 9 SO am, 5 50 pa.
TRAIN'S GOtN'G XOHTa.
LoAveFioronco 0 4 nm. 8 15 pm.
Lav3 Fnvt'tteviiif 12 13 am. 1) IS nm.
Lcavtj S:l!iia 1 i am. .
if Arrivu WilHoii 2 S5 am, 12 00 pm.
JL-ave Wilmirmt-iii 7 15 pm. 9 S3 am.
H Leave MaiMudia 8 55 pm, 11 02 am.
i Leave Guidsl-oro 5 00 am 10 10 im, 12 C3;
aro.
I L"avo V ion 2 33 pm. 5 33 am, 12 12 am.
II 20 t :;!, 12 55 i nu
Arri vij 1;-h ky Meant 3 20 pm, 6 15 am,
12 i'j a n. 11 57 pm. 1 40 pm.
Arrive T:ir-'. ro C 4 am.
L avo '1 arl oro 12 32 j-m.
L-avrt li.x-kv M-imt 3 29 rm. 12 40 am.
Arr ve Wt-Mon 4 83 pmt 1 42 am.
Train mi the Scjitland Noek Branch Tioai
loaves Wt'Mi.u 3 53 pm. Halifax 4 30 pm. ar
rive Scotland Ntv.k 5 20 pm, Greenville 6 57
pm, KHston 7 55 pra. lietiirnla leaves Kins
ton 7 50 am. Greenville 8 52 am, arriving
llalifux 11JS ;it, Teldon 11 33 am, daily ex
cept Sunday. . , .
Trains mi Washington Branch leavo Wa?h-Jntto-i
S 20 nm and 2 30 pm, arrive Parmela
9 10 am and -1 00 r-nv returning leave Parmele
9 35 am and C 3D pin. arrive Washington
11 60 arr ind 7 20 pm, daily cs'Of t unday.
Tain 1 'ave.- TarDoro, N. C. daily except
Punday- 5 30 pm, Sunday 4 15 pin, arrives
Plynioiuh 40 pm, 6 10 tm. IMnrniag leaves
rymoih da.ly tx.vpt Sunday 7 50 am, San
dav 9 UO am, arrives Tarboro 10 05 am aad
1103 am.
Tram oiv Mid. and N. C. Branch leaves
Goldsboro daily except Sunday 7 10 am, ar-
Jivinr rniui;i."ia o oU am . lifUl ruing lea veg
Smithileld 9 CO am, arrives at Goldsboro 10 25
am. , .
Trains on Na?hvill? Branch leave Bocky
Mount at 4 3d pm. arrive Navilie 5 05 pm".
Spring Hope : 5 SO pm. Returning leave
Spring Hone S; 0 am. -Nashville 8 35 am, ar
rive at Rocky Mount 9 05 am, daily except
Sunday.
.Train on ' lmton Branch, leaves Warsaw
for Clinton daily, except Sunday. 11 0 a m
and 4 15 pm. lturnius l'eaves Ciintoa at
Train No. 73 ma !;.'.'? close connection at
TVeKiijn for all points North dailv, all rail via
Blciiaoai,
II. M. EMERSON,
Gen '1 Pass. Agent. .
J. Pv. KENLY, GenT Manager.
T. M. EMERSON. Traffic Manager.
Sends in His Itcaignation.
. Col. Jas. N. Stubbs, of Richmond,
Ya., has addressed a letter to Adjutant
General Eilett, tendering his resigna
tion both as Grand Commander of tho
Grand Camp, Confederate Veterans of
Vireinia and as a member of tho history
committee of that organization.
G2 True Bills for Gambling.
Tho grand jury at Durham, N. C. ,
has returned C2 true bills against Dur
ham citizens for gambling. Judge
Kcbinson fays raffling is garnblinrV
Many lading citiz ns were caught and
tho excitement ia great.
of-IIar-
and u.
A" ihe'noncy dropped In speculation
Xs dropped by men who are trying - to
iicii it up. .
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Gen, Eaton Sees in the Religion 01
Joseph Smith a
I MENACE TO OUR INSTITU
TiONS.
03,000 Converts Each YcarJaXum-
ber Almost Iueredible, lie
sldc9lU
Nominal Member of 300,000,
Tha Philadelphia (Pa.) Times says
Gen. : John Eaton, of Washington,
D. C delivered a lecture, at jAssocip
tion Hall,! under the auspices of the.
Evangelical Alliance. He took for his
j subject, "The ?Jorraon3 and he Way
i to Suppress Them." He said: "The
' Bu'ect fic I have chosen rrUy seem
j an unnecessary one, but the dangers it
threatens make its consideration most
important.; According to thej official
accounts from tho Mormon Propaganda
it lately received 8.5,000 converts each
rear a number almost incredible. It
has beside its nominal mombers 30,030
regular communicants. j
"lho Mormons, though essentially
the same as formerly, do not carry out
the old plan of conversion. They now
visit the house3 of persons in pairs, and
are very similar ia thoir methods to the
followers oV Moody,. Ihey present a
card on gaining admittance and pro
ceed to enumerate the articles of faith,
which, as they are written, do not seem
so extravagant. They are careful not
to give offence, and, having won favor,
can obtain a satisfactory hearing.
Their hearers, finding no objection to
their mild, religious Ktatements be
come less5 horrified, of tentimesj becom
ing members of the Mormon C lurch in
spite of its, atrocities.
- "The Mormon faith in itself; is to be
dreaded, but the probability 6f its un
healthful influence is still worse.- The
State of Utah, though admitted
Union by premising to abaudo
into the
n poivg-
any, is now governed by ihe followers
of iSmith, and as their religion is uni
versally adopted the State will make no
laws to destroy it. But tho danger does
nst cease here. The State of Utah has
the right to send tvo Senators o Wash
ington. Two Mormons are, therefore,
living at the Capital 'with their wives
and admitted into our most respectable
American society. The danger of this
is obvious.' More than onco social in
tercourse has resulted in tho ultimate
conversion of Christians to Mortnonism.
Many who have settled or visied Utah
began to worship in these pagan
churches because it was stylish to be
Mormons in that country, and their
ruination soon followed.
"Another danger resulting in tho
power of Mcrmonisn in Utah is it3 po
litical strength. Ev(
now nothing
could be done in the
enate asrain&& it
without being strongly oppose
1 by the
two Senators lust mentioned,
In tbe
State itself no one but a Mormon will
be received favorably. It is j beyond
doubt that Mormonism is spreading.
They have rectntly established two
headquarters in Mississippi, one in
Athens, 'Ala, ; one in Tennessee, and
several in New York, New Jersey and
other localities near bv-. Even our
own State contains many Mormon con
verts.. They are now erecting schools,
academies and even universities tc
spread their infamous doctrine
Wife Murderer Hanged.
Edward Shannon, the wifo-mur derer,
has been sentenced to be hr.,ngetl on
February 11th, at Wheaton, III., by
Judge' "Willis. Shannon is over 71
years old. He showed little emo'iioo
when sentenced. Asked if he had any
thing to say, he tremblingly rose and
fasbly toid how li6 had saved the life of
State's Attorney TVright, when; he was
a boy. This was tho only plea he mad e
for mercy.
License Tax Regulation.
The Virginia Senate passed the
House bill to make it unlawful for any
lawyer, physician, surgeon, dentist, or
any other person engaged ia a profes
sion or calling, taxed by the laws ol
this Stated who has his residence in
this State, to practice his profession in
anv county or city oi tnis Jjommon-
wealth under a license-tax from
other State or the District of
bia.
xsmm
Flood In the Ohio.
Last week a terrible flood
Colum-
ragtd in
the Ohio river, causing great damage tc
property. T. S. Cross, a salesman ol
North Vernon, Indiana, was drowned
near French Lick, while trying to ford
a swollen stream. A farmer!
Drnry and his father were J
named
li'owned
while trying to ford the Cumberland
river.. The bodies were recovered three
miles below
; With a Pistol.
Jack Caldwell, a prominent and pop
ular young farmer of Mecklenburg
countv, N. C, shot and instantly kill
ed himself in the room of a friend with
whom he had spent the night. His
mind had been aflectad for some time.
The Strike in New KngTand.
The first week of the cotton operatives'
trike in New England cotton) centres
closes with the strikers and the manu
facturers firmly maintaining their re
speetive positions.
The Pension Koll.
Senator Cannon has introduced a bill
providing for the publication! of the
pension roll by Jan. 1, 1839, ana there
after as Congress may direct.
Killed by a Bursting Wheel.
At Savannah, Ga., J. "W. Lee, a car
penter in the car shops of the Central
Railroad, was instantly .killed by a
bursting pully heel. The wheel was
being driven at the rate of 854 revolu
tions a minute, which makes the acci
dent inexplicable to mechanics.
Suicided by Hanging HImslf.
11. J. Daugherty, of Pittsburg, Fa.,
traveling salesman for the American
TeaCompany,?f XanesviUe, 0.. hanged
himself in that city "ffliils temporarily
doran jad. !
MbV ENGLAND APPREHENSIVE-
Arrangements Being Made In Bidder
ford for herring Strike Rations.
Eoston, (Special). The sum totil of
the new features in the programme of
the textile troubles is the shutting
down of the Cabot Mill at Brunswick,
Me., because of the desertion of help in
sympathy with the striking weavers,
and the announcement that a email
mill of the Social Manufacturing Com
pany, at Woonsocket, ii. L, wonld be
Bhut down for a few days for lack of
ordors. j But the mill troubles, evident
ly, are not to be confined to mill cities,
for the side ispue brought up by labor
legislation in the Massachusetts Legis
lature. !,
1 1 will be remembered that the Ark
wright Club, in recommending a cut
in wages, laid stress upon the compe
tition of Southern mills. The club
further urged the repeal of the re
strictive measures in force in Massa
chusetts. With the first inkling of an attempt
to carry out this recommendation la
bor representatives in the House in
troduced bills for new legislation, for a
55-hour week, no overtime for women
and children, and to investigate the
present textile situation. Aiong the
line of battio from New Bedford, Mass.,
to Lewistoh, Me., there was absolute
quietude. The State board of arbitra
tion has seat Member Barry to the
former place to see if tha strikers
wouid not abandon the fining isbue, but
the outcome of his errand is not
known. I
In Fall River the discontent, although
entirely beneath the surface, is growing
and the mill officials know it and are
apprehensive. 1 The j evidence of stub
bornness of the operatives in defending
their position is shown in Biddeford,
Me., where arrangements for serving
etrike rations of soup and food aro be
ing made. There the citizens, even to
Chinese laundrymeh, are contributing
money and societies -are offering aid.
The strike may assume acute conditions
there sooner than at any other place,
judging from local indications.
; At Biddeford, Me.; an effort will be
made by the officials of the Pepperell
and Laconia Cloth Mills to start and all
textile workers who desire to return to
work under the Vj per cent, cut can do
so.: The union men are almost positive
that not enough will go back to start
the mills. i
BIG C03IPANY INCORPORATED.
It Is to
Do Business In Virginia and
the Republic of Venezuela.
i Mr. Wickham has introduced a bill
in the Virginia Legislature to incor-
j porate the American Development
Compamy of the United States. The
act authorizes the company to pur
chase, own, sell, rent, lease, etc., any
real, personal or mixed property in
South America, and more especially to
buy, lease, sell, rent, operate and gen
erally to own and develop any conces
sion, grant. or (franchise; street rail
ways, bonded warehouse, cattle-packing,
cold-storing, and shipping, rail
roads, telegraph and telephone lines;
and to establish, operate, own, perpetu
ate and generally tp work, or cause to
be worked operated, mines, mill?, fac
tories, furnaces, electric plants, etc., in
the republic of Venezuela. In the State
of Virginia and in Venezuela the com
pany shall have power to do a general
banking business. The capital stock is
to be not Jess than Si. 000,000, and may
be increased to 25,000,000. It i said
the corporators have ample financial
backing. .
Tho Greatest of Barbecues.
The National Stock Growers' Con
vention which has been meeting at
Denver , Col. , has prepared the most
astonishing barbecue on record. The
affair wiil come off on the 27th, and the
menu will consist of eight beeves, four
buffalo, six elk. ten antelone. four bears.
forty sheep, ten pigs, two hundred
opossum, ten barrels of pickles, half a
ton of I cheese, forty barrels of sweet
potatoes, three thousand loaves of
Thread and four hun'dred kegs of beer.
For Federal Coutrol'of Quarantine.
Senator Vest, from the committee on
quarantine and public , health, has re1
ported a substitute for Senator Caffrey's
bill providing regulations for quaran
tine. The bill as reported practically
places the control cf all matters pertain
ing to the quarantine service in the
control of the Federal government.
Pritchard Will Stay In the Senate,
i Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina,
will not leave the Senate to accept the
judgeship now vacant in his State, says
the Washington Post. A dispatch from
North Carolina had suggested him as
the probable appointee.
Killed by Gas Explosion.
Forty persons were killed and
eighteen injured by an explosion of
gas in one of the mines of the Donet
zaer Company, in the Togenrog dis
trict of Russia.
Saxton Must Pay $30,000.
; I The Ohio Supreme Court has decided
that George D. Saxton, a brother of
Mrs. William McKinley, shall pav
Sample Sample C. George $30,000 for
alienating.tbe affections of Mrs. George.
She procured a divorce in DaSota, and
it is charged that Saxton paid the ex
penses. ; He owns the Saxton block in
Canton, Ohio. j
j Fought to Get in a Court Room.
j At Chicago the anxiety of many peo
ple to hear the closing proceedings in
the trial of Adolph X. Luetgert for the
murder of his wife resulted in a free
fight in and around Judge Gary's court
room in which the two bailiffs were
badly mauled and several spectators
vigorously clubbed.
Appointed Harbor 31Istress.
Miss Fay Fuller, who has just been
appointed harbor mistress of Tacoma,
Wash., is the only woman in the world
holding such a place. She became
prominent in the West a number of
years ago by being the
ascend Mount Tacoma.
first woman to
Nevrbold Acquitted.
W. Hi Xewbold tho dispensary con
stable charged with the murder of an
inoffensive old farmer, was tried at
Si artanbnrg, S. C. The jury brought ,
ia a verdict of not guilty. J
I IP HE Pill.
Full Plans and Specifications Havj
Been Prepared.
BIDS TO. BE OPENED THE 29TH.
It Will Require TSiree Years to Get
the Plant in Operation, and Mil
lions Will be Required for It.
Washington, (Special) Secretary
Long, accompanied by Chief Construe
tion Hichborn, Chief O'Neill, of the Bui
reau cf Ordnance, and Judge Advocate
General Lemley, appeared before the
Senate committee 6s naval affairs on the
19th. The Secretary piid in response to
questions that the Navy Department
had prepared full plans and specifica
tions calling for an armor plant under
the last naval appropriation bill, and
that estimates on the cost of land,
tools and machinery recessary to equip
the plant had -been made. The bids
were to be opened on ihe 23th instant,
and he thought foveri bids would be
made. '
Secretary Long aid also that in vi'gw
of the report of th& commitie which he
had appointed to consiJer the question
of & government armor plant, upon tne
great cost and delay it would involve,
ne had entered into further negotia
tions with private armor, plants, now
furnishing armor for other ships, and
he believed that he could make a con
tract for the supply of armor plate for
tha Ill'nois, Alabama and Wisconsin,
now under course ot construction,
which would be read? whenever the
ships were ready to receive it, at the
rate of $400 per ton; Ihfe secretary
recommended, in view cf the circum
stances, that an arrargement to this
effect be made.
From the Secretary's statement, cor
roborated by statements- by Commo
dore Hitchborn and Captain O'Neill, it
appears that the cost of a government
plant, properly equipped, would be from
$3, 500, 000 to $i, 500, 000. He said that
tliir estimate included all machinery
for making armor-plate, guns and pro
jectiles, andadded that if the govern
ment adopted the policy of providing
its own plant no aimor could be expect
ed from such plant for about three
years. The committee has taken no
action upon ihe armor-plate matter,
and it is considered probable that the
whole question will receive attention in
that connection. . 1
A COMMERCIAL CONGRESS.
Scheme to Increase an Interchange m
Business Between Soutn and WT st.
Governor Bloxnam, of Florida, has
issued an invitation to the Governors of
he Southern and Western States to at
tend the fifth annual session of the
South and West Commercial Congress,
to convene at Tampa, Fla., Feb. 8th,
9th and 10th, 18t)8. The Governors are
also requested to appoint delegates to
the congress.
The principal objects of the congress
are to consider the means to increase
the interchange of all merchandise and
manufactured articles between the
South and West, and to promote the
movement of grain and all other
products of the Western States to South
ern distributing markets and through
Southern ports for export. All the Gov
ernors, commercial organizations, mu
nicipal governments and transportation
companies of the South and the West
have been requested to appoint dele
gates to this congress. A great many
have already responded and the success
of the oongress is assured.
BOUND AND GAGGED A FAMILY.
Then Ransacked the House for Booty,
Cooked Breakfast and Departed.
Five masked men entered the resi
dence of Mrs. Anna Gratz, two miles
east of Beaver Dam, O.j and at tbe point
of a revolver, bound and gagged every
member of the household, consist
ing of Mrs. Gratz, a daughter,
three sons, aged from 10 to 18
years, and two farm hands, John
Hauenstoin and Adolph Follet. Leav
ing one of their number to guard their
victims the remaining four looted the
house, securing about $10 in money,
two gold watches and some jewelry,
after which they' repaired to the
kitchen and cooked breakfast After
eating a hearty, meal they departed,
leaving the family still bound.
Nominations, by the President.
The President has nominated Claude
M. Bernard to be attorney of the Uni
ted States, Eastern district of North
Carolina. Also Tyre Glenn to be post
master at Greensboro, N. C, and Wm.
H. Chadbcurn, postmaster at Wilming
ton, samo State.
Killed Herself With Brother's Pistol.
A special from Mavsville, Ky,, says:
News of the suicide of Miss Harriet
Keith Owens, at Crab Orchard farm,
the home of her father. Basil D. Ow
ens, near Washington,) has reached
here. Miss Owens had been in poor
health for some time and had to give
pp her school last fall on . that account.
She read the account of the shooting of
ex-Senator J oe Blackburn's daughter,
Mrs. Lano, with much interest After
reading about the shooting she went ic
her brother's room, securec? his pistol,
placed it to her temple. and fired.
Death was instantaneous.!
Actor's Wlfe.Gets Absolute Divorce
At New York, Justice Pryor, in th
Supreme Court confirmed the report oJ
ex-Judge Donahue, as referee, recom
mending that a decree of absoluU
divorce be granted to Nellie R. Good
win wife of Nat C, Goodwin, the actor.
Goodwin is ordered to ray to hil
divorced wife $75 a week alimony.
Three Men Killed In a Wreck.
The westbound overland train jumped
the track near Colfax, Cal., wrecking
the train badly. The engineer, fireman
and out bxakejan were JuU&d,
H A PARAGRAPH.
The South.
Atlanta is prcra -ing to co'ebrets on
May o and 6 its semi-centennial.
1 he Yirginia Legislature downed the
anti-flirting bill. j . f
I - 1
Reginald de Koven is seriously ill at
Aiken, a. C., having undergone a sur
gical operation. j !
The Norfollk, Va., trucking season
has been delayed by frost and there is
a scarcity of dpinach j
At Marion, B. C.,i a negro shot and
killed his sweetheart because she s re
fused to go to Georgia with him.
There is a tuil before ihe Virginia
Legislature for the nomination of Fed
eral Senators by primaries.
C. A. Gammon, a leading merchant
of Montgamei-y, A!a., swallowed ;on-a
ounce of carbolic acid and died from its
effects. j- ,. j .
In a Sunday card game at Darling
ton, S. C, "Biook Mclver shot and
killed Pescr Murray. Both partieayo
colored. J
Clarence Bartlett, aged 17, has
strangely disappeared from the home,
in Norfolk, Ya,, of his uncle, a wealthy
contractor. !
There is much activity at the Norfolk
navy 3-ard and a hundred men have
returned to work in the construe lion
department. j j
Mrs. Anita IcKeo, of Jackfon, Mis ,
has asked President McKinley to ai
.point her Collector of Internal Hsvenue
at New Orleans, La.
Tho Georgia Legislature has appro
priated $10,005 for a textile school ia
Atlanta, provided a similar amount be
raised by private subscription. j
Dr. Tydeman, a distinguished; re
tired physician of j Knoxvilie, Tenn.,
who was well known for his deed of
charity and benevolence, died . in Co
lumbia, S. Gi j
The result of the first ballot in the
Tennessee Legislature for a United
State Senator resulted as follows: Mc
Millan 89, Turley 30, Taylor 19, It re
quires 43 to nominate. i
The Liberty Woolen Mills, at Bedford
City, Va., which has been idle for some
time, has been purchased by New York
and Philadelphia parties, and it is
stated, w'li start it up at once.
The total number of smallpox cases
in Greenville, so says a statement in
the Columbiaj Statej signed by C. C.
Jones, chairman board of health, num
bers 27: deaths 1. The statement also
says there is no danger now, as they
have the disease under control.
The North.
Fire at Chicago, III., destroyed pro
perty amounting to half a million.
The coming convention of the Reunit
ed Ancient Order of Hibernians will be
held at Trenton, N. Jk, Juno 27.
A mock trial by boys, ending in a
hanging, at 'Turner's Falls, Mass., al
most cost Harry Jackson his life. -
A teacher at Matteawan, N. Y., dis
sected a eatj in the schoolroom and
the cruelty society may prosecute her.
Tho Lorraine, (O. ) chamber of com
merce wiil offer the government a free
site for an armor plant on blacK river.
Although lie has fallen heir to a
fortune of $70,000, Policeman Delmar
8. Gardner will remain on the New
York force. i
Master Cor Builders' and Masier
Mechanics' Association of the United
btates will couve3 at Saratoga, N. Y.,
in June next.
John Mosher, of Fuhkill, N. Y.,
drove three hiiles beside a corpse not
knowing that his companion had died
on the journey. j j
An effor will be made by the New
York Fenata to find j out what became of
h 0 00 , O00 a ppropriated for im p.-oving
the Lrie Cr.uad. i
Logan Carlisle, son of John G., and
former chief plerk in the United. States
Treasury department at Washington,
during the Cleveland administration,
died at the home of his father in New
York. Cause, heart failure.
Adlai E. ! Stevenson, former Vice
Fresident of tho j United States, has
accepted the position of Western coun
tel of the Noith American Trust Com
pany cf New j York,! with a membership
in the board of directors.
On February 1st 114 looms in j the
Manchester (N. H.J) Cotton Mills will
be stopped for an indefinite time. ITLe
cause assigned is the falling off in the
demand for j!rint goods. There willalso
be a reduction of about 10 per cent, in
wages, affecting about SO per cent, of
the employe on January 24th. j
Miscellaneous.
The London engineers haTe agreed
to return to wc rk. j j
The reductions of wages in the New
England cotton mills' will eilect 123,000
operatives, j '
At Hot Springs, Ark., Jack" Ever
hasdt knocked out Eddie Donnelly in
the sixth round. j
Eight millions in gold dust is Btored
at Duwsoa Cjtj-, Alaska. The cutput
this jear 13 expected to reacu S50,000,
ODO.i
General John M.
Schofield thinks it
under not to annex
would be a grave b
the Hawaiian! Islands.
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Dick Brandt, the supposed train rob
ber and murderer, was among a dozen
prisoners who broke jail atBentonville,
Ark. ' ' I M
The stomachs of Conrad Beck, in St
Louis, and Mrs. E. Bestian, in ;Mil
waukee, wer4 removed by snrgeons as
a result of cancer, j Both patients died.
Governor Black, of New York, jwill
be present at the American Paper and
Publishing Association's annual dinner,
in New Yorkicity on February 17.
George Draham won a race of thirty
five miles against about 200 other Klon
dike miners who sought to be first on
the grounds! to secure rich claims on
French Pete Creek.!
At Boston three boys were asphyx
iated by gas. j j
William Slate, of Leadville, Col.,
prompted byj jealousy, shot and killed
Mrs. Minnie jSmith and killed himself.
The District of Columbia appropria
tion bill was reported to the Houee on
the ISth. It carries S-537,6o7, or over
half a million dollars Ies3 than the cur
rent year's appropriation. j
At Philadelphia Sam Henderson, ID
years old, lias been arrested for the
murder of Percy Lockgar, 5 years old.
"Yeilowback' literature is supposed to
be responsible for the deed.
TOID 1
1 16 Mi.
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A Discovery That Will Prove a Boon
to the Farmer.
ANTI - TOXIN E SERUM THE
Talisman--The Serum Sava 82.8 Per
Cent., and at a Nominal Cost of OdI
10 Cents a Head.
The chief of the bureau of animal in
dustry, Dr. D.j E. Salmon, at Washing
ton, has submitted to Secretary Wilson
a report upon the experiments made in
the treatment of hogs i for hog cholera
with anti-toxihe serum. This serum is
made" upon tho same principle as the
anti-toxine of diphtheria. Good semm
has beea obtained from both horses and
cattle, a horse or cow being; treated
with the hog I cholera virus in small
quantities at first, with large dotes af
ter suitable intervals of time. The re
sistance of the animal is thus raised to
the highest practicable ioint "j The
blood of such an animal when injected
under the skin of swine has been fouud
to possess both a preventive and a cure
for cholera. i I
This serum was first tested upon
small animals in the laboratory and
being found efficacious, was last fall
tested in Page county, Iowa, on sev
t vsl herds of Bwine containing alto
gether 278 animals, Leaving out one
herd, from which definite returns as to
cause of death could not be obtained,
only Si) died out of 244 animals of
which 80 weie siok. Consequently 82. 8
pr eat of the; animals in those nerds
were saved. Of untreated herds kept
under observation during the period re
ferred to about 80 lr cent -of the ani
mals died. Dr. Salmon believes that
with experience a better quality of se
rum can bo prepared aad he has doubt
that this percentage can bo maintained
hereafter. !
Referring to this report Secretary
Wilson remarked that undoubtedly the
results reported by Dr. SalmonVere
most encouraging to hog raisers. The
cost of the serum now, said the secre
tary, is but 0 cents per head of ani
mals treated, only one dozen being re
quired, and doubtless in course of time
this light cost may still be further re
duced. "It is my opinion, " paid the secretary
"that it is cf the utmost importance
that this erum for the next year at
least be made by the bureau, under
our own supervision, and distributed in
large quantities in order to demon
strate its "efficiency upon a more ex
tended Ecale. It is absolutely essential
that during the experimental stage
serum of undoubted quantity be used.
Unless the hog growers can obtain? it
from this department they will be
forced to depend upon what "can be ob
taiJdd from private sources, and owing
to the novelty of this product, not only
will disccuragingly exorbitant priceB
be charged for it, but in many capes
inferior products may be offered. This
would preclude the a possibility of mak
ing a satisfactory test cn a widely ex
tended scale.
"I propose to ask congress to provide
an appropriation necessary to enable
this department to furnish 2,000,000
dozens of serum during the next year,
and to loake a considerable portion of
tho appropriation immediately availa
ble. It seems from Dr. Salmon's re
port that it takes three or four months
to put a horse or cow in condition to
supply the serum; consequently the
work upon an extended scale must be
undertaken at once.
"The losses from hog cholera are so
enormous and have weighed so heavily
for years upon our farmers that I can
not imagine that Congress will for a
moment make tbe appropriations ne
cessary to carry on this work thor
oughly. Indeed apart from the great
stake the farmern have in this matter,
to refuse to provide for a thorough test
of this remedy now wouid be, indeed,
pennywise and pound foolish; for the
discovery of this serum has involved
already many years of work and a very
large sum of money. It would be a
great mistake,1 now that so gTcat a dis
covery seems to have been made, not to
finish the work by giving it a thorough
and extensive test
STONKD BY STRIKERS.
Superintendent of a New Bedford Mill
Roughly Handled.
At New Bedford, Mass., strikers have
become disorderly. Superintendent
Knowles, of the Asushuet Mill, j was
stoned by a crowd of nearly a thousand
strikers. He is one of the most! un
popular men in New Bedford. He made
a speech at tbe Gate Mill and tried to
persuade some strikers to return to
work, when he was roughly handled by
the men.
About fifty men, mostly French and
Polish, attempted to resume work, but
were
prevented oy strikers, wno are in
C A. .. fl
an- angry mood
anticipated, j
cenous uouoie is
Petitioned the Postmaster-General.
The South Carolina Presbyterian
synod has petitioned the postmaster
general remonstrating against the
opening of postoffices on Sunday and
against Sunday transportation of mails.
The grievrncej was submitted through
Senator McLaurin.
Killed IBmselt, Wife and Children.
John Matthews, a retail grocer in
New York, murdered his wife aad their
two children, a boy 19 years old and a
girl 12, by hacking them to death witb
a hatchet Matthews then committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head.
Relief Expedition Not Abandoned.
Acting Secretary Meiklejohn, of the
War Department, pronounces to be ab
solutely untrue the statement coming
from Portland Ore., that the relief ex
pedition to the Klocdyka baa been
abandoned by tbe Government
Cotton for the Orient
Keren train loads, amounting to 4,750
bales of Texas cotton hare arrived at
Tacoma, Wash,, for shipment to Chin
and Japan on the steamers of tho North-
exn Pacifio Use. - - I
DRADSTREETTS REPORT.
Activity In Business and IndnitrU
. Lines Generally Reported.
Bradstroet's report, for past wesk
says: j A Urge meauio of ac
tivity in business and industrial lines
in some instances.with previous records
surpajsed, and very general steadiness
la prices of staplo. is perhaps tbo most
notable-feature of tbo lrado Mtuat:oa
thi wee!:. Quotations of cereals show
tbo mofcfc aggre sive strength, while
those of some makes of pi? iron betray
rather ore decided weakness than tbey
did a week ago. Mdd weather is fre-.
queutly mentioned as an iufbtence to
check retail distribution of seasonable
goods, chiefly because of the effect ou
country roads. Spring tiadp oreni
slowly, as usual at this tmo' cf tho
year, but confidence is still unim
paired.! I
The industrial situation with tho sin
gle exception of tbe cotton industry is
one of j exceptional strength. As yet
tho strikes in this bracci of trade .aro
largely confined to Massachusetts.
Men's wear woolens are moving fairly
well. At the West, distributive tra lo
ia slowly improving while at tbe Scuta.'
a fair January trade is reported, par-,
ticularly in tho Mississippi valley.
Good returns from last j e.11 'a Louisi
ana sugar crop, find expression iu high
prices for sugar lands. Tho good re
port fi;om cotton precludes too heavy
accumulation at primary point. ia
spito tbe crop ! movement Mild
weather in the Northwest affects tbo
trade to some extoat A point of in
terest, however, is tho report that fur
goods j manufacturers chuully shut
down at tbis season, aro rnnning full
time oa Alaskun orders. Business ia
activa oa the l'acifia coat; California
crop prospects have been improved by
the recent rain?, and shin aud boat
buildiug is very aotivo a'oag l'ugefe
Sound and at Portland. . ;
Quite a fchrinkage iu cereal reports
are iudicated by reports to Brad
street's this week. Tbo totnl hip
ments of wheat, fiour included, from.'
the United States ami Canada,
amounted to only ' 3,0,,030 bushels
againft fi.223.0v0 last week; 2,lll,0o0
busbe'.B iu tbis week a veu ago; 8,813,
000 bushels in 181)0, and 2.840,0 J bush
els in the third week of Jnuvary, 1$.)5.
Indian! corn exports phow a heavy fall
ing off, amounting ta oniy ;j,48i,00)
buHhels tbis wcek, hgaiiut 4,4J1,00J
bushels last week; 3,T20,000 last year
and 3, 192, 000 bushels in the correspond
ing week of 1 80(5. 1 i
A further falling off on tbe number
of business failures is reported in tbo
United States this week, thetotal being
only 2Qd, againat.H23.Iast week; 42 i tbis
week a voar ago; 1114 in the week of
loJii; 3lS in Jb'.j and 00S in 13 4. Tho
fainres in the Dominion of Canada how
a further falling off, nmouutmg tais
week to only 4(5 against lust week ; 57 in
18J7;52iu 1690, and 48 in 18J1, but
slitrhtly exceeding thoso of 183J, which
number 23. i
REV.
DRr TALMAOK 31 ARR HID.
Mrs. Klenoro MeCutchcon Collier, of
i; Pittsburg, the Bride. !
Rev.rT. DeWitt Talmago, tho noted
divine,! at Washington, and Mrs. Elen
oro McCutcheon Collier, of Alleghany
City, Pa, wero united in maniago on
tho 22d, at the McCutcheon residence,
No. 47, Irwin 1 avenue. Tbo ceremony
was performed, by He v. W. J. Robinson,
1). 1), J pastor of' the Firt United Fre
byteiian Church. Tbe weddiuar.whicu
came as a great surprise to tbo many
friends of the coup'e, was, on account
of the recent death in tbe family; aa ex
tremely quiet affair;
Mrs. 'ialmage is the daughter of tbo
late James M. McCutcheon, of the big
iron firm of Lindsay tz Mcf'ntcbeon.
She was the widow of-CLav W. Collier,
onlvtonof .Truism P. IT. Collier, bbo
is 4 J years old while her husband ia Ci'
xhe present Mrs. 'lahnago in tho rev
erend gentleman's third wife, bis sec
ond wifo having died several years ago.
A Reverend Forger Siiws Out of .!al?
Rev. Leslie Cook, who hi been con
fined in the Boanoko (Va ) city jail,
under an indictment for forgery, ra'-rcJ
out and made good Lis e-capc. Tho
special case on which ho wai indicted
involved a check purporting to havo
been signed by T. W. Wood k Son, f
Richmond, and which Cook hal cashed
duriug tbo meeting of tho J'nptist As
sociation in Roanoke some uouths ago.
He he'd a pastorate in Roanoke fcr a
short time. Cook is wauted ia oilier
places on similar charge.
Fat ii CollMiMi.
Train No. 37, of the Atlantic Coat
Line, from New York to Florida, and
train No. 52, local, from Charleston.
collided 80 miles -wet of rharleson.
Two men were killed andannwhor,
injured. The collision wa cunc l by
a confusion of orders. Since the above
was written another of the mjuic l has
died, making the to'a! death three,
'lho State Railroad Commi-jon rays
no wreck would have occurred if orders
had been carried out
SHIItary Burial for a Veteran Mule.
At Blum, Tex., military ceremoaiei
were held at the burial of an old Con
federate army mule, which belongel to
A. McCnllongb. 'Ihe veteran beast
was 42 yearn of age. Its owner used it
as a cava!ry mount all through tho war,
and in recent years exhibited it many
soldiers' reunions.
Lived 11 Days Wit 1 a Broken Neck.
August Nickerson, a sailer, died at
Port Townsead, Wash , with a broken
I neck. Nickerson, who wai a tailor on
' the American bark Ciyphcne, vr'.Afo off
I Cape Mendocino, cleveu days 1 revicui
leu irom the mam yam through a
hatch to the hold, a distance cf 43 feet
Shot to Death by Ihe Postc.
Arthur Jennings, who aieasinated
Joe Brinsoa aad wounded Jim Tryor,
near Augnsta, Ga , was snrronnded ia
a house in tho conntry several miles
from the city and while resisting airwfc
was shot to death.
Mr. ht. John Win Stick.
Vice-President St. John's private nco.
rotary ienles positively the report tbat
Mr. St John will resign In position
with the Seaboard Air Line to accept
tho sszxi&zsziSatQt Union r&ciHc,