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VOL. VII.
DUNN. N. C. FEBRUARY 23. 1898.
NO. (!.
Tetter. Salt-Rheum and Eczema.
The intense itching and smarting, inci
dent to these diseases, is instantly allayed
by applying Chamberlain's Eye and
Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases
have been permanently cured by it. It
is equally efficient for itching piles and
a favorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
and chronic sore eyes . 25 cts. per box.
Dr. Cady's Conditio!! Powders, are
just what a horse heeds when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not food but
medicine and the best in use to put a
horse in prime condition. Price 23
cents per package.
For sale l-y N. B. Hood, Dunn,
N. O.
JProjc&Hional Cards.
J ames H. Por. Edwakd W. Pdc.
W. II. Young.
rou c- rou a young,
Attorneys at Law,
LILLINGTON, N. C.
(Associated in the trial, of civil cases)
in the Superior courts of Harnett Co.
C. CLIFFORD,
' Attorney at Law,
DUNN, N; C.
Will practice in all the courts of the
fState where services desired.
Jj J. BEST,
Attorney at Law,
DUNN, N. O.
Practice in County Courta of Har
nett and surrounding counties, and U.
H. Courts. Special attention given
collections.
1), 11. JFLEAN,
Counsellor and Attorney at Law.
DUNN, N, C.
Praeiice in all courts. Collections a
specialty.
W. E. MUJICHISOJV,
.TONES BORO, N.. C.
Practices law in Harnett, Moore and
other counties, but not for fun. 3 201y.
ISAAC A. MURCHISON
Fayetteville, N. O.
Practices law in Cumberland Har
nett and anywhere services arc wanted.
WILMINGTON & WELDON R.R,
AND BRANCHES.
AND FLORENCE RAILROAD.
Condensed Schedule Dated Jan. 17th, 189a
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Leave Weldon 11 52 am, 9 43 pm.
Arrive Kocky Mount 12 55 am, 10 36 pm.
Tave Turboro 12 12 am, 6 01 p va.
Leave Rocky MounC 100 am, 10 36 pm,
C 45 pm, 5 40 am, 12 47 pm.
Leave Wilson 2 20 am, 11 16 pm, 7 17 pm,
'6 22 am, 2 37 pm.
Leave- Selma 3 15 am.
Leave Fayetteville 4 47 am, 1 14 pm.
Arrivw Florence 7 35 nm; 8 15 pm.
Arrive Goldsboro 8 00 pm.
Leave Goldsboro 7 01 am, 3 20 pm.
Leave Magnolia 8 05 am, 4 24 pm.
- Arrive Wilmington 9 SO am, 5 60 pm.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Leave Florence 9 48 am, 8 15 pm.
Leave Fayetteville 12 13 am, 10 15 pm.
Leavi Si lina 1 47 am.
Arrive Wilson 2 35 am, 12 09 pm.
Leave "Wilmington 7 15 pm, 9 35 am.
Leave Magnolia 8 55 pm, 11 02 am.
Leave Goldsboro 5 00 am 1010 pm, 12 05
am.
Leave "Wilson 235 pm, 5 S3 am, 13 12 am,
11 20 pm, 12 55 rm.
Arrive Rocky Mount 3 29 pm, 6 15 am,
12 49 ana, 11 57 pm, 1 40 pm.
Arrive Tarboro 6 4 am.
Leave Tarboro 12 12 pm.
Leave Rocky Mount 3 29 pm, 12 49 am.
Arrive Weldon 4 S3 pm, 1 42 am.
Train on the Scotland Neck Branch Road
leaves Weldon 3 55 pm. Halifax 4 80 pm, ar
rives Scotland Neck 520 pm, Greenville 6 57
,m, Kiaston 7 55 pm. Returning leaves Kind
ton 7 0 am. Greenville 8 52 am, arriving
Halifax 11 18 am, Weldon 11 33 am, dally ex
cept Sunday.
Trains on Washington Branch leave Wash
ingtou 8 20 cm and 2 30 pm, arrive Parmele
9 10 am and 4 00 pm, returning leave Parmele
9 S5 am and 6 30 pm, arrive Washington
11 00 arr and 7 20 pm, daily excep t Sunday. -
Train l-Mive Tarboro, N. C, daily except
Sunday 5 30 pm, Sunday 4 15 pm, arrives
Plymeuth 7 40 pm, 6 10 pm. Returning leaves
Plymouth daily except Sunday 7 50 am, Sun
day 9 00 am, arrives Tarboro 10 05 am and
11 00 am.
Train on Midland N. C. Branch leaves
Goldsboro daily except Sunday 7 10 am, ar
riving Smlthfleld 8 30am. Returning leaves
Bmithfleld 9 00 am, arrives at Goldsboro 10 25
am.
Trains on Nashville Branch leave Rocky
Mount at 4 30 pm, arrive Nashville 5 05 pm.
Spring Hope 5 30 pm. Returning leave
Spring Hope 8 CO am. Nashville 8 So am, ar
rive at Rocky Mount 9 05 am, daily except
Sunday.
Train cm -Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw
for Clinton daily, except Sunday, 11 20 a m
and 4 15 pm. Returning leaves Clinton at
7 00 am and 3 00 p m.
Train No. 73 makes close connection at
Weldon for all points North daily, all rail via
Richmond,
H. M. EMERSON,
Gen'l Pass. Agent.
J. li. KENLY, Gen'l Manager.
T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
No New Trial for Leutgert.
At Chicago Judge Gary denied the
motion of Leutgert's attorneys for ft
new trial, and sentenced the sausage
maker to life imprisonment.
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Newsy Briefs.
W. M. J. Scanlan, the singer and
Irish character actor, is dead. Aged 42.
Christopher Columbus Luby was
hanged at Blakeley, Ga., for wife
murder..
President McKinley has been invited
to the Rase Carnival, at Tacoma, Wash. ,
in Juno.
Some men get married when they go
Into a lion's cage. Others put their
heads into the lion's mouth when they
get married.
RUSSELL DEPOStS HIM
He is Removed as Atlantic and
North Carolina R. P. Director.
WILL TAKE EFFECT FEB. 22.
Told the Governor it Board of Dircc
tors of A. & N. C Asked II lm to
Resign He Would Fighti
The Governor, on the 17th, wrote to
the directors of the Atlantic and North
Carolina Pailroad as follows: "Robert
Hancock has this day been removed by
this board from his office as director of
the Atlantic & North Carolina Eailroad
on the part of the State. This removal
is to take effect on the 22d day of Feb
ruary, 1899, this being the day on
which your board of directors is to
meet. This action is taken by the
Board of Internal Improvements under
authority upon them conferred by sec
tion 3 of the amendments to the char
ter of the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad Company. It would seem
that the removal of Hancock as director
will operate as removal from his office
as president of your company; but if
you concur in the action of the board
of internal improvements, it may be
well for you to pass an order of your
board dismissing him as president by
virtue of the powers granted to your
board by section 4 of article II of the
by-laws of your company. "
The Governor wrote the following
letter to Robert Hancock: "You are
hereby notified that at a meeting of the
board of internal improvements, con
sisting of the Governor, C. A. Cook and
J. C. L. Harris, this day held, you were
remoyed as a member of the board of
directors on the part of the State in and
for the Atlantio & North Carolina Rail
road Company, this order to take effect
on and after the 22d day of December,
1898."
t These letters are signed by Governor
Russell, as president, and by J. E.
Alexander, as secretary of the board of
internal improvement.
Hancock told the Governor that
that if the board of directors of the At
lantic and North Carolina Railroad ask
ed him to resign, he would fight, where
upon the Governor told him that he
would remove him at once. Hancock
then walked out of the executive office.
Charlotte Observer.
Railroad Commission Meeting.
At the meeting of thr State Railroad
Commission on the 17th, at Raleigh, the
feud between Teavson and Abbott de
veloped at the outset, Abbott's sub
poenaed crowd being excused from at
tendance. Rates on fertilizers were
protested against by the Atlantic Coast
Line, Seaboard Air Line, Southern and
N. & W. Many spoke. The protests
against the reduction on corn by car
load lots were filed by the Atlantic
Coast Line, Southern, C. -F. & Y. V. ,
N. & W. . S. A. L. , N. & S. , A. & D.
and A., K. & N. The matter of reduc
tion in telephone rates was taken up.
Senator Daniel argued for the Bell
Company, and made a powerful and
scathing speech, directed at the com
mission. The S. A- L. and A. C. L.
were permitted to uphold their answers
as to passes granted until the Southern
case is decided.
Inquiry on I'art of Home-Seekers.
The secretary of the Board of Agri
culture says there is a great deal of
inquiry as to North Carolina on the
part of the home-seekers and that a
few immigrants are settling mainly at
Asheville and Southern Pines. In Gov
ernor Russell's inaugural address it
was intimated that a big immigration
movement would be inaugurated. It
has not materialized. For a number of
years foreign immigration has not
been sought after. Charlotte Ob
server. Railroad Organized.
The Raleigh t Capo Fear railroad
was organized at Raleigh on the 17th,
and elected John A. Mills president,
T. W. Upchurch rice president, W. J.
Upchurch superintendent, and T. F.
Tiicks secretary and treasurer. The
directors decided to begin tho construc
tion of the road from Raleiph south
ward towards Lillington, beginning at
the Caraleigh Mills and using its two
miles of railroad. The capital atock of
$200,000 is paid up.
Fighting Oyster Claims.
Auditor Ayer and Treasurer Worth
are fighting the payment of the Pamli
co and Carteret oyter claims, aggre
gating nearly $i,"000, saying that in
many cases the papers were never
served and that as to some the persons
named had been dead six to ten years.
4 Charter for Hosiery Mill.
The State charters the Durham Hos
iery Mills, capital 360,000; Julian S.
Carr, George M. Graham, E. H. Mar
tin, Paul C. Graham and W. C. Gns
wold. Power is given to raise the capi
tal stock to $200,000.
.
Indicted a Sunday School.
A Sunday school, at Greensboro is
indicted for cutting its Christmas tree
on the lands of a countryman. The
cutting is a misdemeanor. The man
wants $10.
Slaking Special Examination.
State Labor Commissioner Hamrick
is having a special examination made of
the wafer-powers in Clevelaud county.
He finds that one stream affords power
to operate 120,000 Bpindles.
Appiorited Entomologist.
Dr. W. E. Weylie, of Scranton, Pa. ,
is appointed entomologist to the North
Carolina board for controlling fruit and
crop pests and will soon begin in
spection of ' vines and orchards for
the San Jose fruit scale and other pests.
State Consumes Its Crop.
Very little cotton can now be secured
at Raleigh owing to the fact that home
mills take practically all of it. The
State now consumes its crop, and has
to replace what is sent away by other
cotton brought in.
SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS.
j ' The South
Twenty-five thousand miners in Ala
bama have been vaccinated by the Ma
rine Hospital Service.
In Putnam county, W. Va., Mrs.
Melissa Caruthers was kicked to death
by a cow.
Fifty extra men have been taken on
at the Norfolk, Va., navy yard, and
work is going on day and night.
The industrial reports from West
Virginia are encouraging. The woolen
industry alone gives employment to
6,000 people.
Rev. Wm. Meade Clarke, of Rich
mond, has declined to accept a pro
fessorship in the Virginia Theological
Seminary.
A Eafe robber, Martin Kelley, wa3
shot and captured at Greensboro, N. C.
byE. G. Wests while in the act of open
ing the latter's safe.
Governor Tjder sent a message to the
Virginia Legislature recommending the
appointment of a commission to formu
late a plan for retrenchment in State ex
penditures. In Cleveland county, North Carolina,
near Shelby, Sidney Grigg shot and
killed Miss Williams, his .sweetheart,
and then in turn killed himself. Cause,
unreqnitted love.
Bishop Chas. T. Quintard died of
heart failure near Darien, Ga. , on the
15th. His health had been bad for
some time. His remains were carried
to Tennessee for interment.
Because a stranger named Rawlins
did not resent an insult in church at
Blue Ridge, Ga., Whit Dillard shot
him dead in the edifice, and was him
self riddled with lynchers' bullets later.
The Columbia (3.-0.) State says
Wm. J. Bryan has been invited to make
the annual address at the commence
ment exercises of Erskine College, at
Due West, in J une.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nominations of John T. Williams,
of North Carolina, to be consul at Sierra
Leone, Africa. To be assistant sur
geons, Marine Hospital Service J. F.
Anderson, Virginia; L. L. Lamsden,
Virginia.
m The Virginia State Senate, after cut
ting down the appropriation from $150,
000 to $100,000 ordered to its engross
ment the bill providing for enlarging
the cell accommodations of the peni
tentiary. The money is to come out of
future earnings of the prison.
The North.
Joseph Leiter is reported to have cor
nered the May wheat market.
The Health Department of Chicago,
111., reports 40,000 persons suffering
from the grip in that city.
At Philadel phia Peter Maher defeated
"Thunderbolt" Smith in -the third
round. The match was for six rounds.
The State Board of Arbitration has
sustained the demands of striking min
ers in the Northern Colorado district.
Mrs.: Mary Maschin, who kept a New
York boarding house, has been sent to
the werkhouse for begging food on
which she fed her lodgers.
Students at tho University of Michi
gan will no longer smoke on the cam
pus or in the corridors, in obedience to
demands of the girl pupils.
The National Editorial Association
Executive Committee, at Chicago, 111.,
fixed the next annual convention for
Denver, Col. , on Sept. 6.
Train robbers were scared from an
Iron Mountain train near Bismarck,
Mo., by the passengers, after stealing
valuables from one man.
Ex-Bank President Charles W.
Spalding's sentence of imprisonment as
embezzler of Chicago University funds
was sustained by the Illinois Supreme
Court.
The i Democrats have made heavy
gains in the municipal elections in
New York State. In seventeen coun
ties the Demacrats made gains in
thirty-three towns and the Republicans
in only one. Olean elected its first
Democratic mayor,
Wm. H. Heath, manager of the Cen
tral Electric Express Company, of St.
Louis; Mo., was found dying in Forest
Park, from a bullet wound in the head.
It was evidently a case of suicide. The
yonug man was taken to the city hos
pital, where he died. He is a relative
of Perry S. Heath. Assistant Post
master General.
Miscellaneous.
A Southern Society has been organ
ized among the students of Columbia
University.
A vigilance committee has been or
ganized in Skaguay, Alaska.
The National Congress of Mothers
will meet in Washington in May.
The Japanese will colonize a tract of
100,000 acres in Mexico, to be devoted
to coffee growing.
Smallpox has been declared epidemic i
ai Auuuiesooro, Jy., ana tne saloons
and public schools are closed.
John Wiliiams, a Democratic leader
in Bartholomew county, Ky. , was shot
and killed in a quarrel by James Lewis.
Gen. Lee is about to found an orphan
asylum in Habana for destitute children.
The Christian Herald of New York
guarantees tne expenses.
The McGraw brewery, at Harper's
Ferry, W. Va., was sold to August
Krueger, of Cincinnati, for 20,000.
Hannis Taylor, former minister to
Spain, js a candidate for the Demo- I
cratic nomination to Congress from the '
first Alabama district.
Detectives have returned from Paris
to New York with William Riley Foster,
alleged embezzler of $193,000 from the
Gratuity Fund of the New York Pro
duce Exchange.
Pension Commissioner Evans return
ed $879 to a pensioner in Texas, who
had sent tne money back after receiv-
ing it, believin;
he was not entitled
to it.
It is the opinion of European diplo
mats that even if it should be develop
ed that the Maine was deliberately
blown up there would not be sufficient
cause for wnr between Spain ,nd the
United States.
At Washington Verser, of Virginia,
and Mills, from Texas, two former
members of the Republican congres
sional committee have been charged
with stealing 6,000,000 envelopes, which
they sold for $1 a thousand as waste
parer.
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Excitement Has Subdued, But Inter
est and Expectancy Are Intense.
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DEAD BURIED ON CUBAN SOIL
Will Cost $200,000 to Raise the
Wrecks-Clara Barton to Have the
Wounded In Hand.
A Washington Bpecial of the 17th
says the excitement caused by the
great, disaster to the battleship Maine
has settled back into a waiting attitude,
realizing that the court of inquiry is
the sole dependence in the search for
the cause of the Maine's loss, the naval
oflicialo ax-e nuw resolved to await the
results of that inquiry by a court or
dered today by the Navy Depart
ment. No telegrams came, "aud all that could
be gleaned was a denial of some of the
absurd stories tjiat had crept into
print, or beoome current gosBip. The
news of the day all came in the late af
ternoon in the shape of Captain Sigs
bee's report of the authorization of the
funeral of his dead sailors and General
Lee's graphic story of the struggle for
life ' in the dark hull of the
Maine. The officials at the Navy De
partment devoted the day to the effort
to correct tho lists of living and dead,
to an - werihg frantic telegraphic appeals
frpAa relatives of men on the battleship
and last, but not least, in meeting with
unwavering courtesy and patience the
MJSS CKARA BAXTOK.
exacting demands upon their time of
the press representatives.- Captain
Dickens, acting chief of the navigation
bureau, has arranged for the disposi
tion of the survivors, as well as could
be from this distance. The wounded
sailors in, the Havanna hospitals, on
the Spanish flagship and elsewhere,
when not in condition to be brought
back to Key West, will be careful
ly looked after by Miss Clara
Barton, who has been given oarte
blanche to buy any and everything nec
essaryfood, clothing, delicacies, and
hire nurses aud physicians. The
wounded able to get across to Key
West will be taken care of in the Marine
Hospital there. The sound survivors
will be quartered in the spare army bar
raoks there. As for the Maine herself,
notwithstanding discouraging reports
from Lieutenant Hood as to her condi
tion, the Navy Department will make
an effort to raise her. While this is re
quired by every creditable sentiment
they say that they are bound
to remove the hull from the" small
harbor in any case, and it may be aJ
easy or easier to raise her as it would
be to destroy the hull and machinery
slowly by the use of divers and dyna
mite, ll is believed that this work can
be best done by private wrecking cor
porations, and negotiations are already
afoot for placing the contract, based on
work on the day, at an estimated cost
of $200, 000.
Funeral of the Victims.
Havana, Cuba. (By Cable.) The
interment of the martyrs of the Maine
took place this afternoon about 5
o'clock. Shortly before the hour all
Havana was in movement. The ilags
on the publio buildings were at half
mast, and many of the houses were
draped in mourning. All classes were
represented in the throngs that filled
the streets along which the funeral pro
cession passed to the cemetery.
Insist That the Blaine Was Blown Up.
Regarding the explosion, the officers
of the Maine are reticent. They are,
evidently under orders to keep quiet
about the subject, but the men talk
more freely, and they, including the
petty officers of the Maine are almost
unanimous in insisting that the ex
plosion was caused by a large torpedo
planted before the Maine arrived at Ha
vana. -
Regarded Satisfactory and Complete.
A cable despatch was received by the
Secretary of State, Washington, from
Minister Woodford, at Madrid, an
nouncing that the Government of Spain
had disavowed the letter of Dupuy de
Lome to Senor Canalejas. The "dis
claimer," as the administration officials
call it, is regarded as satisfactory and
complete, and the President promptly
authorized the announcement that the
incident is closed. The Madrid gov
ernment proposes to punish the man
who stole the letter.
French Steamer Wrecked.
Teneriffe, Canary Islands. The Cam
pagne Generale trans-Atlantic steamer
Flachat, bound from Marseilles for
Colon, was totally wrecked on Anaga
Point, this island, at 1 o'clock on the
morning of the 16th. Her captain,
second officer, eleven of her crew and
one passenger were saved.". Thirty
eight of the crew and 43 passengers
were lost. The Flachat was a vessel
of tonsgross regis ttr.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Proceedings of Both tho Senate and
House Day By Day.
THE SENATE. -40th
D at. The Senate Foreign Re
lations committee reported against
placing Allen's Cuban beligerency
amendment on .the consular bill and
recommended that it be laid upon the
table. Senator Allen spoke on his res
olution providing for the free coinage
of silver without waiting for action by
any other country. Morgan called up
his resolution asking that the President
! be called upon for certain information
I in regard to Cuba. It was passed.
41st Day. Pettus, of Alabama, of
fered and secured the passage of a reso
lution requesting the President, if not
incompatible with the public interest,
to inform the Senate what action had
been' taken in reference to the murder
of Segundo N. Lopez, a citizen of tho
United States, on April 11th, 1896, in
Santiago del Valla Marquerralla, Cuba,
by armed soldiers of Spain, commanded
by Colonel Eslruch. The resolution
introduced by Harris, of Kansas, di
recting the Attorney General to furnish
the Senate information as to an agree
ment reached by the government with
the reorganization committee of the
Union Pacific Railroad, concerning the
Kansas branch, was passed.
42r Day. A disoussion upon coast
defenses was the interesting feature of
the Senate. Many Senators took the
ground that the appropriations should
be for the full amount of the
estimates by the War Department
instead of some 34,000,000 less.
On motion of Pettus, the appropriation
for the construction of: sea walls and
embankments was increased from $30,
000 to $55,000. An amendment, offered
by Chandler, increasing the amount
appropriated for powder and projectiles
for a reserve supply for armament and
fortifications from $650,618 to $950,613,
was accepted. This completed the con
sideration of the bill and it passed
without division.
43d Day The Senate, by a vote of
.34 to 29, declared its opposition to con
firming the sale of the- Kansas Pacific
Railroad. Allen, of Nebraska, offered
the following resolution, but Chandler
objected, Jand it went over. "Re
solved, That the committee on naval
affairs be directed to make an im
mediate and thorough investigation
into the cause of the disaster to the
battleship Maine, in the harbor of Ha
vana, on the 15th instant, and report to
the Senate.
44th Day. The Senate passed a re s
olution appropriating $200,000 for sub
marine work, and so far as possible,
for the transportetion and burial of the
bodies of the dead of the Maine. A de
bate, decided in its sensations, was un
expectedly precipitated in the Senate
over the consideration of the resolution
of Allen, of Nebraska, directing the
committee on naval affairs to investi
gate the disaster to the battle-ship
Maine. An arrangement had been made
for the adoption of the resolution,
with a minor Amendment, without
debate. Mason, of Illinois, however,
proposed a substitute providing for an
investigation to be conducted by a joint
committee of the two branches of Con
gress. . Upon this the Illinois Senator,
disregarding an appeal not to force a
discussion at this time of so melancholy
an affair, delivered a speech in which he
said that the people demanded
the truth concerning the explo
sion, and declared that they would
not be satisfied with the investiga
tion to be conducted by the of
ficers of the Navy, who would virtually
try their own case and would cover up
any blame that the facts may show at
tached to them. He fiercely denounced
the policy of tho government in dealing
with the Cuban question, into which
he went at length, and declares that the
United. States had adopted the policy
fo Spain in putting everything offuniil
tomorrow. Sharp replies to Mason's
charges were made by Wolcott, of
Colorado, and Lodge, of Massa
chusetts. The resolution which pre
cipitated the discussion finally went to
the calendar.
THE HOUSE.
45th Day. In the House Updegraff,
of Iowa, Republican, from the commit
tee on judiciary, called up the bill to
amend the act of 1887, relating to fees
of United States officers, so as to cor
rsct some existing abuses, and it was
passed. Mr. Coxe, of Tennessee (Dem.j
from the committee on banking and
currency, called up the bill to better
control and to promote tho safety of
national banks. The bill restricts the
borrowing by presidents and other bank
officials. Their applications for loans
must be filed in writing and approved
by the directors. Loud, of California
(Rep.) from the committee on post
offices and post roads, called up the bill
to make it lawful to transmit through
the mails private postal cards with a
one cent stamp affixed. The bill was
passed.
45th Day. The debate on the bank
ruptcy bill attracted little attention,
the interest of the members being en
tirely absorbed by the disaster toMhe
Maine. Just before the House adjourn
ed, Boutelie, chairman of the naval
committee, presented the follo-ving
resolution, which was unanimously
adopted: "Resolved, That the House
of Representatives has learned with
profound sorrow of the great calamity
which has caused the destruction of the
United States battleship Maine, the ap
palling loss of more than 250 lives and
the wounding of many others of tho
gallant defenders of our flag, and that
the House express its sympathy for the
injured and its sincere condolences
with the families of those who have
lost their lives in the service of the na
tion." - 47th Day. The debate on the bank
ruptcy bill dragged along listlessly in
the House, interest being overshadowed
by the Maine- disaster. The speeches
on. the floor attracted almost no atten
tion, and were delivered in most in
stances to a handful of. members.
43th Day. After four days of con
sideration, the House has passed the
bankmptcy bill reported by the House
committee on judiciary, as a substitute
for the Nelson bill passed by the
Senate at the extra session last sum
mer. The bill is known as the Hen
derson bill and contains both voluntary
and inv&luntary features. It ia .con
sidered less drastic than the measure
passed by the last House by a vote of
157 to 87. The involuntary features,
however, had but sixteen majority.
Today a motion to strike out the in
voluntary features was defeated by 4
majority of 19, and the bill was passed
by a majority of 23, the yote standing
ayes 153; nays 125, Eighteen Republic
cans voted against the bill and VJ
Democrats for it. The Populists, with
one exception, voted against it.
49th Day. The House promptly and
nnauimously voled the S200, 003 asked
for by the Secretary of the Navy to re
cover, the bodies lost in the Maine
disaster, and to raise the wreck, if that
is deemed advisable. The rest of th
session, which lasted six hours, wai
devoted to a continuation of the debate
cn the bankruptcy bill.
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2TEW YOBK COTTOV FTTTCRE1.
New York. Cotton quiet. Middling
upland, 6j; Middling Gulf, C.
; 1- utures closed steady.
Opening. .Closing.
' February..?... ....... 5 U6 500
'March C 03 --593
I April G 07 6 03
May G 12 G 0G
June.. G 14 6 10
July. G 17 6 13
August G 21 6 16
September 6 19 6 16
October 6 21 6 16
November 6 20 . d 17
December. .... ....
January
OTHEK COTTON MARKETS.
Charleston. Cotton steady; middling
5. !
Wilmington. Cotton firm; 'mid
dling 5.
Savannah. Cotton firm; middling 58.
Norfolk. Cotton firm; middling 5.
Memphis. Cotton firm; middling 5 J.
Augusta. Cotton firm; middling 5 15
1G.
Baltimore. Cotton nominal; mid
ling 6.
New Orleans Cotton easier; mid
dling 5f.
Columbia Market quiet; goood mid
dling 5 J.
Charlotte Market steady; good mid
dling 5 9-16g5. . r
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET.
Baltimore. Flour dull; Western
superfine 2.80(3.20; do extra $3.4.)
4. 10; do family $1.4!J4. 70;winter wheat
patents $4.8oo. 10; spring do $5.10
5.0; spring wheat straights 4.90
5.05.
Wheat Easier; spot and month $1
$1.00i$1.00i; May 98i89; steamer
No. 2 red 9596$; Southern wheat
by sample 96$1.01; do on grade 96$
$1.00.
Corn Strong; spot and month, 34$
34; March 3484J; April 8434$;
steamer mixed 3i3g33l; Southern
white corn 8435; do yellow 8334$.
Oats Strong and higher; No. 2
white Western 8132; No. 2 mixed
29iS0. - "
NAVAL STORES.
New York Turpentine dull at 34.
Rosin steady at 1.40 1.45.
Charleston Turpentine firm at 82
bid. Rosin firm; quotations un
changed. Savannah. Turpentine firm at 32J.
Rosin firm; A, B, C and D 1.25; E 1.30;
F 1.85; G 1.45; H 1.60; I 1.651.70;
Kl.75; Ml.80; N 1.95; window glass
2.00; water white 2. 25. .
Wilmington. Rosin firm at 1.20
1.25. 'iurpentine nothing doing; quo
tations unchanged. Crude turpentine
nothing doing; quotations unchanged.
Tar firm at 90.
COTTON SEED OIL.
New York Cotton seed oil firmer;
fair business at the advance; prime
crude 19; prime summer yollow 22J
23; off summer yellow 22; butter oil
2527.
party Lines wipkd out.
Democratic, Populists and Silver Re
publican! Issue Addresses.
Washington (Special.) The ad
dresses on behalf of the Democratic,
Populist and silver Republican parties,
which are the result of the conferences
which have been in progress among the
leaders of these parties at the capitol
for the past few weeks, were issued .on
the 15th. They unite. themselves in the
future on the financial iesue as the
question of paramount importance, and
are separate appeals to each of the par
ties to consolidate all along the lines for
this purpose. The address to the Dem
ocrats is signed, by Senator James K.
.Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the :
endorsed by the Democratic central
committee; the Populists by Senator
Butler, chairman of the Populist na
tional committee, and the twenty-five
Populist members of the Senate and
House, and the silver Republicans by
Chairman Chas. A. Towns and the
silver Republicans of the Senate and
House, and als by ex-Senator DuBois.
Bliss Wiilard Very IIL
The New York World says: Miss
Frances E. Wiilard is ill at the Em.
pire hotel in this city. She has been
suffering from cancer of the stomach
for several years. The inroads of this
disease, combined with a bad attack of i
grip naa completely snauerea rier
health. She broke down in Madison,
Wis., about a month ago while making
an address upon her birthday. It was
then deci led that she ahould go to New
York and submit her case to specialists.
The latest is that her condition is said
to be much improved. j
Standard Oil Magna e Dead.
Mr. Geo. II. Hopper, the Ii reest
itoekbolder in the Standard Oil Com-;
pany, died at Elmwood, near Union- j
viile, O., after an illness of over a year.
Mr. Hopper was CO years of age. He
was noted for his liberality. He leaves
a wile ana tnree children.
Burled Under the Debris.
At Pittsburg, Pa. , the south wall ol
the Union Storage Company's building,
which was destroyed by the big fire
last Wednesday, fell shortly after 11
o'clock, on the 15th. A number of
bovs were playing about the ruins, J
and it is believed that at least five were
caught by the falling wall and are
allied under the debris. The latest is
that .a man, boy and two horses hare
been rescued.
Court of Appeals Adjourned.
The West Virginia Court of Appeals,
after transacting a large amount of
business, adjourned until March 16,
when a special term will begin at
Charleston. - i
All
HIT
11
Our Government Will Not Investi
gate the Maine With Spain.
MEN WANTED FOR THE NAVY.
Spanish "Authorities View the Maine
as Extra-Territorial, ns U. S. Lega
tion, Sltuftte l In foreign Territory.
The destruction of the cruiser Maine,
in the harbor at Havana, Cuba, on the
1 15th, has caused one of the greatest
sensations siuce tho cows of the civil
war. It is still uncertain whether tho
Maine was destroyed by a torpedo, or
by her own powder magazine.
Washington. (Special). The Pres
ident and Secretary Long, after an ex
tended conference decided that the
United States will make the investiga
tion into the causes of the "Maine"
disaster independent of the Spanish
authories, and that the Spanish au
thorities can make such investigations
as they desire.
This arrangement commended itself
to naval men as fair to all, and at the
same time was calculated to develop,
the exact facts in a manner ' that
could not be questioned. Ihere was
a good deal of talk among the
officials of the need of speedy relief
measures for the benefit of the families'
of the victims of the explosion. Under!
the Treasury rules tho allotments of
portions of pay to members-of their!
families made by the men who perished
in the wreck must stop at once. It is
not doubted that Congress will do as iti
did in the case of the Samoan dinanter,
and provide for a year's pay to the fami
lies of the sailers who died at their
posts. The difficulty, however, is that
6uch a measuro cannot be passed at
once, and meantime some of tho faini
lies of the dead sailors will be in great)
distress.
The Navy Department are determined
to raise the Maine and may be take the
wreck to Norfolk, Va., navy yard.
Senor Du Bose, charge d' affaires of
the Spanish legation says a complete
and harmonious understanding between
Captain Sigsbee and the authorities at
Havana has been reached on the mat
ter of divers, and that the Spanish au
thorities view the Maine as extra terri
torial, that is a part of tho sovereign
territory of the United States, the same
as a United States legation situated in
foreign territory. With the Maine bond
ing its status as extra-territorial ail
doubts as to work on (he wreck are re
moved. The waters of Havana harbor
are of course Spanish territory and
some confusion has been aroused by
the idea that this jurisdiction over the
waters attached also to the wreck ia its
present helpless condition at the bottom
of the bay.
Georgians Hot for War.
Governor Atkinson, of Oeorcria. is
overwhelmed by offers from those who
want to enust in tne .event mat tne
"Maine" episode brings on a war.
Ever since the suspicion of foul play
began to bo entertained, telegrams have
begun to pour in to the executive office,
aud t ne of them is from the Adjutant
General of the State, okiug for an op
portunity to servo under the United
States flag in Cuba, or anywhere else.
The Governor is making the some reply
to all these patriotic men: "J here will
be plenty of time to fight, if matter
reach a crisis. "
Rumors of War.
It is reported on snod authority that
the President has decided to end tho
war in Cuba bv interference and recom
mended that tho island be purchase! by
the Cubans. It is thought that a dec
laration of war will be made if the in
vestigation shows that the Maine was
sunk as the result of a conspiracy. All
depends upon the result of the investi
gation into the disaster.
Men Wonted lor the Navy.
Orders have been issued for the en
listment of 800 men for the navy to fill
the vacancies caused by the destrno
tion of the battleship Maine, and to
complete the legal quota. Ibenewmon
will be Bent to receiving ships from
where they will bo sent to ships in com
mission wherever needed.
Estimates of Dead and Injured.
The Navy Department has given oul
theno revised eatistica of the dead and
injured of the crew of the battleship
Maino: Total officers saved,,24; men
saved, 76; officers lost, 2; men lost, 240;
men injured, 57; doubtful, 7; out of a
jrew of 354.
Service of 10,000 Men Tendered.
Commander-in-Chief Street, of the
Union Veterans Uiiion, has offered to
the President the services of 10,000
men of his order for tho defence of the
country. They could bo ready for ao
tion iu forty-eight hours.
j At Your Service.
It is learned from good authority, fays'
the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, that the
Adjutant General has tclei-raphed the
President, offering the ne vices of the
North Carolina State Guard iu case of
war with Spain.
Fusion Force Ylu.
The Fopulist convoution which met
at Minneapolis, Mmn., has como to an
end with the victory for the fusion
force. The State convention was set for
June 15, and the middle-of-the-roaders
who desiring an April convention, fonnd
themselves so much in the minority
that they made no strucrglo." They will
make au effort to control the convent
tion, however.
Iluslnesa Conditions Favorable.
BraJstreet's commercial review for
the past week says the strength of cot
ton, sugar and rice, and the demand
for iron, help the Southern trade.
Business failures continue to decrease.
British Army to Be Increased.
Tho British army estimates just re
ceived propose the numerical strength
of the army by twenty-five thousand
men at an increased cost of nine hun
drsd ihoaaaad enztis