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I'rofessional Cards.
James II. Pou. Edward W. Pou.
W. H. Young.
lOU ct VOU & YOUNG,
Attorneys at Law,
LILLINGTON, N. C.
( Associated in the trial of civil cases)
in the Superior courts of Harnett Co.
J, C. CLIFFORD,
Attorney at Law
DUNN, X. C. I
"Will practico in all the courts of the
Ktato where services desired.
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L. J BEST,
Attorney at Law,
DUNN, N. C.
Practice in County Courts of liar
nett and surrounding counties, end U.
S. Courts. Special attention given
collections.
X, . Jl'LEAN,
Counsellor and Attorney ut-Law.
; DUNN, N. C.
Practico in all courts. Collections a
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W. E JLuncnisox,
: Jonesboro, n. c.
Practices law in Harnett, Moore and
other counties, but not for fun. 3 201y.
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Fayetteville, N. O.
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AND FLORENCE RAILROAD.
Condensed Schedule Datod Jan. 17th, 189&
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Leave Weldon 11 52 am, 9 43 pmT
Arrive Rocky Mount 12 55 am, 10 36 pm.
Leave Tarboro 12 12 am, 6 01 p m.
Leave Rooky Mount 100 am, 10 36 pro,
6.45 jim, 5 4) am, 12 47 pm .
Leave V7ii.-?ou 2 20 am, 11 16 pm, 7 17 pro,
6 22 am, 2 37 pm.
Leave Helma 3 15 am. f
Leave Fayettevillo 4 47 am, 1 14 pm.
Arrive Florence 7 35 am, 3 15 pm.
Arrive Goldsboro 8 00 pm.
Leave Goldsboro 7 01 am, 3 20 pm.
'Jjejivo M iccuolia 8 05 am, 4 24 pm.
Arrive Wilmington 9 30 am, 5 50 pm.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Leave Florence 9 A3 am, 8 15 pm.
Leave Fayettevillo 12 13 am, 10 15 pm.
, Leave Selma 147 am.
Arrive Wilsou 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 nm 10 10 pm, 12 05
am.
Leave vtJson 2 35 pm, 5 33 am, 12 12 .am,
11 :'.0 j.ai, 12 55 pm. f "'
Arrive Hoeky Mount 3 29 pm, 6 15 am,
12 4'J am, 11 57 pm, 1 40 pm.
Arrive -boro C 4 am.
Leave Tarboro 12 12 pm.
- Leave Rooky Mount 3 29 pm, 12 49 am.
Arrive Vveldon 4 33 pm, 1 42 am.
Train on the Scotland Neok Branch Road
loaves U'eldon 3 55 p.m. Halifax 4 30 pm, ar
rives Scotland Ne.-k 5 20 pm, Greenville 6 57
pm, KIston7 55 pm. KcluruinK leaves Kins
ton 7 50 am. (Jreenvillo 8 52 am,, arriving
Halifax 11 18 am, Xeldon 11 33 am, daily ex
cept Sunday.
Trains on Washington Branch leavo Wnsh-hv.rto.-i
8i 20 am aud. 2 30 pm, arrive Parmele
t ID inn and 4 00 pin, returning leave Parmele
9 '33; am .and: t 30 pm, arrive AYashinpton
11 00 atr tad 7 20 pm, daily except Sunday.
Tiain ljave,- Tarboro, N. C, daily except
Suudav 5 30 pm, Sunday 4 13 pm, arrives
Plymouth 7 40 pm, C 10 pm. Returning leaves
Plymouth daily exeopt Sunday 7 50 am, Sun
day .y uO am, arrives Tarboro 10 05 am and
11 00 am.
Train on Mid. and N. C. Branch leaves
G"Msboro daily except Sunday 7 10 am, ar
riving Smithileld 8 30am. Retd mine leaves
i Smithlield 9 00 am, arrives at Goldsboro 10 21
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 ; 0 am. Nashville 8 35 am, ar
rive at Rocky Mount U 03 am, daily except
'niuday.
--rain on lmton Branch leaves "Wareaw
for Clinton daily, except Sunday. 11 20 a m
and 4 15 pm. Returning leaves Clinton at
. 7 00. nm and 3 00 p ro.
1 Train No. 78 roake close connection at
VTcldcn for all points North daily, all rail via
Richmond.
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Gen'l Pass. Agent.
J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Mauaser.
T. IM. EMERSON. Traffic Manager.
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Long Says the Report of the Board
Has f'ot Arrived
A SPECIAL MESSAGE LIKELY,
President in Consultation With III?
Cabinet, lint I here Was No Inci
dents of Keal Importance.
Last Saturda3''s news from Washing
ton says President MeKinley, members
of the Cabinet, Congreasmen, all olii
cial Washington and the public gen
erally are eagerly, nnxiously awaiting
the report of the naval board of inquiry,
which wiil f?et foith lhe cause of the
explosion that wrecked the "Maine,"
and perhaps fix the guilt or innocence
of the Spanish people. i
Secretary Long declares! that the
report has not as yet been received.
All that can be learnel is that thead
ministration expects to have it in, the
course of tho next few days. !
This may be true, but there is good
reason to believe that the President
will know what the, verdict is sooner
than "in the course of a few days."
Tho special message of the President
is not likely to go to Congress until
the last of tho week. In the meantime
Congress is very restive. Reports' that i
the administration is iu favor of further
trial of autonomy in Cuba excites iu
dignation among the members of Con
gress. Administration Will Stand Firm.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt Bays there is and will bo no
recession f rem the stand taken by this
government towards Spain. The ad
ministration, he declares, has mapped
out it3 plans, and will firmly carry
them out. . r
Ordering the "Massachusetts" and
"Texas" to Hampton Roads, where
they are to be joined by the "Brook
lyn," "Columbia" and "Minneapolis"
was for the purpose of better protecting
the Atlantic coast; ho says.
Tho intimation that Spain did not
like the fleet at Key West had nothing
to do with the ordering of the war ves
sels to the northern Atlantic.
President Was 15nsy Sunday,
President Mckinley did not attend
church Sunday, as is his custom, but
instead spent two hours and more in
conference with several members of the
cabinet. Assistant Secretary Day called
and remained an hour, Secretary Long
and Secretary Bliss were the othei
members present. They remained less
than an hour.
Commander Clover, in company with
Mr. Flint, Avho has been acting for the
government in the negotiations for the
purchase of warships also called and
were shown, to tho President's private
office. The members of the cabinet on
leaving the White House, said' that
there was no special significance
in the meeting. The report of
the Maine court of inquiry had not been
received, nor was it definitely known
when it would reach here. It was ex
pected, however, early in the present
week' aud as soon as received it would
be handed at once to the President,
and when it had been read and consid
ered by the President Tt would be made
public.
Secretary Long in speaking of the
report, said that while fully realizing
its importance, the country, in hisopiu
ion, would willingly accord to the Pres
ident a day or two if necessarj for its
considerations. The indications seem to
be that tho report will be made public
by the middle of the present week.
Aside from the meeting of several
members of tho cabinet at the White
House there were no incidents of im
portance during the day. Judge Day,
Assistant Secretary aud Chief Clerk
Michael and other officials were at the
State Department, but this has
been quite common during the recent
months. Also at the War and Xavy
Departments a number of chiefs of
bureaus" were: at their desks for several
hours, mainlj' for the purpose of dis
posing of the business which recently
has accumulated so rapidly.
The most interesting topic of the day
was based on the dispatches from Ha
vana indicating a prospective, confer
ence between General Pando and Gen
erals Garcia, Gomez and others of the
insurgent army, for the purpose of sub
mitting to the latter a formal offer fo
autonomy. The basis of autonomy as
outlined in the dispatches apparently
found no credence with the officials of
the Spanish legation. They stated
their disbelief that a conference on the
proposed lines was probable aud added
that they Lad no information on the
subject." Minister Poloy Bernabe ex
pressed the opinion that the report
from Havana was unfounded, as he
said the basis upon which it was pro
posed to grant "autonomy was absurd.
A Cuban Relief Train.
A relief fund of $$,633 in cash and
twentj'-one car-loads of provisions and
clothing-collected in Missouri, Kansas
and Oklahoma, for the starving Cubans
of Matauzas, have' been forwarded
south from Kansas City. These relief
measures are being carried out under
the management of the Kansas City
Star, and agents of the Star will aid in
the distribution at Matanzas, . under !
the direction of united States
Consul Brice. This relief is
being carried free on a special train
over the Memphis road to Memphis,
thence over the Illinois Central to New
Orleans. The United States govern
ment has guaranteed the transportation
from New Orleans to Matanzas. The
principal articles of food sent are wheat,
flour, corn meal, rice, potatoes, rolled
oats, condensed milk and soup extracts.
The contributions of clothing include a
great number of calico dresses for wo
men and . children, mostly of the
"Mother Hubbard" pattern, made by
various church sewing circles.
' The New Military Department.
In order to correct a misunderstand
ing which exists, it is statedf that the
new military department recently cre
ated, whose headquarters are to be at
Atlanta, will be known as the Depart
ment of the Gulf, General Graham, at
present commanding the Department
of Texas, assuming charge. Tho pur-
pose was to include in the confines of
the new department that part of the
country which would be in in all likeli
hood nearest to the field of hostili
tie'R, in case it should come to
that. The department is to in
clude the States of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississip
pi, Louisiana and Texas, all of which,
except the last are at present attached
to the Department of the East. Atlanta
was chosen as the headquarters of the
new department because of its fine
strategical situation, being the centre
of so many railroad connections. The
Department of the Missouri and Texas
are abolishad, and the headquarters of
the latter, which have been at San An
tonio for bo many years, are aban
doned. Navy Wants More 3Ien.
Tho navy department is preparing to
send out several thousand notices to be
posted in the principal towns through
out the United States calling for en
listments for the navy. The advertise
ments call for men between eighteen
and thirty-five years of age, except or
dinary seamen who must be between
eighteen and thirty. The navy depart
ment is experiencing the most difficulty
in securing seamen.
; SCRAPS OF NEWS.
Gathered From All Parts of This
Mundane Sphere.
New York theatrical managers com
plain of dull business.
Augusta, Ga., Merry-Makers' Week
is to be from April 25 to 30 inclusive.
The Debs co-operative commonwealth
has founded its first coloney near Bel
fast, Wash.
Rev. Leslie Cook, convicted at Roa
noke, Va., of forgery, has been taken
to the penitentiary.
John Dougherty, a life-prisoner in
New Castle jail, Delaware, Md., broke
out with the aid of a fellow prisoner.
Dr. George B. Morris, a well-known
dentist, who died in Morganton, W.
Va., left an estate valued at $100,000.
It appears that the strawberry crop
in the eastern counties of North Caro
lina is set back two weeks by the cool
weather in February.
Rev. Dr. Howerton, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte,
N. C. , classes playing progressive
jeuchre for prizes as gambling.
I Dr. J. M. Strong died in Mecklen
burg county, North Carolina, of con
gestion of the lungs an hour after the
attack. He was a Confederate surgeon
of prominence.
In Frederick county, Maryland, Leslie
Horine was shot and killed while en
gaged in serenading Mr. and Mrs.
George Gibbon, a newly married couple.
Gibbon and his father are under arrest.
Upto March 10th 65,000 people had
passed through the car "City of
Charlotte," that is out under the man
agement of Messrs. Ramseur & Moore
advertising the different resources of
North Carolina.
The Goebel election bill has passed
the Kentucky House, 59 to 32, over the
Governor's veto, and is now a law.
During its passage two of the members,
Depp and Elmore, engaged in fisticuffs,
but peace was restored.
The Wilmington (N. C. ) Star says:
Mr. W. H. Yopp, the well-known fish
dealer, gives the information that the
catch of shad this year is not nearly so
large as the fish men would like it. This
is owing to the want of freshets.
Considerable excitement exists in the
oil fields above Chattanoogaj Tenn., on
the Cincinnati Southern Railway. The
Dayton Oil and Gas Company has just
been formed with a capital stock of
$200,000, and has secured a lease of 16,
000 aoresof land. The company will
bore for oil at once.
A Washington special says: Repre
sentative Skinner, of North Carolina,
has , been informed that a life-saving
station is to be established at Ocracoke,
N. C, and that a range light will be
placed at the mouth of Alligator river,
the order having been made by Chief
of the Life-Saving Service Kimball.
If the farmers of Rowan county.
North Carolina, prove that they can
raise Bugar beets successfully, a re
finery for beet sugar will be established
there by the government and the South
ern Railway. The seeds have been or
dered from Washington, and the culti
vation of the sugar beet will be begun
at once.
The arrest of Henry Hilton, a moon
shiner, has brought to light a peculiar
mountain tragedy at Russellville, Ark.
Steve McAfee and Henry Hilton, noto
rious moonshiners, were sleeping in
their still house. McAfee, in a spirit of
fun, awakened Hilton and told him the
marshals were after them. Half awako
and excited, Hilton grabbed a chair and
beat McAfee to death. Hilton is now
a raving maniac and will be sent to the
asylum.
An iron "combine" ha3 been formed
by the Southern iron furnace operators
with a view of holding up the prices of
iron. Those interested are the Chat
tanooga, Birmingham, Rockwood, Day
ton, Bessemer ani Anniston furnace
operatives, and the price of No. 1 fur
nace iron placed at $7.50 a ton. There
was a general cutting of prices prior to
the agreement. Tha demand for iron is
good at Chattanooga, Tenn. The Day
ton (Tenn.) furnaces, with a daily out
put, of over 325 tons, have just been
"blown in." They give employment
to 1,000 men, including those employed
in the company's mine.
A special to the Charlotte (N. C. ) Ob
server from Fayettevihe, says: While
the machinery was whizzing in the
steam laundry of Messrs. Ledbetter,
on Franklin street, a wheel, twenty
four inches in diameter, revolving at a
high rate of speed, went all to flinders,
fragments piercing two floors and the
roof, and one burying itself in the
earth, where, after four feet of digging,
it remains undiscovered, i The shaft
rolled over and pinned a workman to
the ground, whence he was rescued,
ttnhurt One large piece of the wheel
landed in the yard of Dr. J. V. Mc
Neill, nearly a quarter of a mile dis
tant, on Dick street, much to the con
sternation of the children at play.
A prescription is the personal prop
erty of the person paying for it. The
retention of a copy of it by the drug
gist satisfies all the requirements of
Ins business. The original prescription
can always be elaimed by the custod
ier as his property.
1 If IISIiilfElI.
A Large Number Favor Fusion With
the Democrats.
AN EARLY CONVENTION FAVORED
The Executive Committee Is to Meet j
April 1st, and Primaries is to bo
Called at the Earliest Date. I
On the lCth-lTth the Populist confer
ence met at Raleigh in the Senate
Chamber. Hal W. Ayer called it to j
order, and called Dr. Cv Thompson to j
the chair. Ayer was th,n made secre- j
tary, with Dolly and Rivers assistants.
Letter's from Populists were read for
two hours. It is claimed that seventy
five Populists were present, j They
spent most of the day caucusing and
conferring. Railroad Commissioner
Caldwell introduced a resolution ear
nestly requesting the executive com- I
mittee to meet not later than April 1st,
and that primaries be called at the
earliest date so as to have an early oon- j
vention. The resolution was unani- j
mously adopted.
The speeches were confined to five
minutes. Nearly all tho visitors spoke,
reporting the conditions of their respec
tive counties. There appeared to be a
division for fusion on State matters. A
large number are favorable to fusion
with the Democrats. National fusion
in accordance with Butler's plan was
opposed by some, who said they doubted
the sincerity of the Democrats.
The conference adopted L. C. Cald
well's resolution calling for an early
convention. It is considered a thrust
at Senator Butler and his State chair
man, W. E. . Fountain. The Senator
has persistently refused to listen to the
demand made on him for & meeting of
the State committee. The following
committee drafted resolutions looking
to the policy of the party in the coming
campaign: Cvrus Thompson, Hal Ayer,
A. S. Peace, J. E. McCaskey, Baylus
Cade and M. II. H. Caldwell. The com
mittee reported the following resolu
tions, which were adopted by a vote of
10 to 26 :
"Resolved," That the action of this
conference warrants the assertion that
any differences which may have existed
in the People's party o! North Carolina
are eliminated and tho sense of this
conference is that every effort to create
disorder hereafter will be the 'object of
grave suspicion, and the promoters
of such effort will be, looked upon as
inimical to reform and good govern
ment. -
"Resolved, That the spirit of the
recommendatory addresses by the na
tional chairmen of the Peoples' party,
the Democratic party and the Silver
Republican party, invoking the union
of all forces favoring the reform of the
national financial system, is' cordially"
indorsed, since such reform was the r
inspiration of the People's party, and
is now its greatest purpose.
"Resolved, That it is the hope of
this conference that the State conven
tion of the Peoples' party may be able
to so devis means for furthering all its
principles Ad efforts aswill in no wise
or the beneficent results of the party
or the beneficent results of legislation
already occomplished."
Spier Whittaker violently opposed
the resolutions. So did Peace, saying
that he thought they meant fusion with
the Democrats, which he bitterly op
posed. Cyrus Thompson, chairman of
the conference, made a fiery speech in
favor of the resolutions. He said if the
resolutions failed of adoption the fact
would get out, and it would be better
that there had never been a Populist
conference if it should so happen. Sev
eral others spoke against the adoption of
the resolutions because they thought
that they meant fusion with Denucrats.
This they stated they never would con
sent to.
L. C. Caldwell made a speech. He
said he would vote for the resolution as
he did not think they amounted to any
thing. He would never co-operate with
the Democrats again; he had no idea
the resolutions meant fusion with the
Democrats.
"If I thought these resolutions would
result in fusion with the Democrats,"
said Caldwell, "I would not only vote
against them, but stamp the life out of
them now. "-Raleigh correspondent
Charlotte Observer. ;
Kate of Freight on Fire Wood.?
The railroad commission orders the
following as the rats of freight on fire
wood in car loads, released loaded and
unloaded by shipper, 10 cords mini- !
mum, l io jo nines, -it cenis; 10 10 io
miles, 45; 15 to 30 miles, 50; 30 to 40
miles, 55; 40 to 50 miles, 60. This is a
reduction of from 10 to 20 per cent, per
cord.
The Grading Nearly Done.
The Mocksville-Mooresville extension
of the North Carolina Midland Railroad
is nearing its completion in the way of
grading. The bed is about ready for
ties and rails between Mooresville and
Cleveland, and it is understood that all
the grading to Mocksville will be finish
edln about two weeks. Trains are ex
pected to be running on the new road
by May 15th.
New Passenger Kate Stands.
The State railroad commission
in session at Raleigh, decided that
the new passenger rate 2 and 2h cents
which goes into effect on the 23d,
stands. Of course it is well under
stood that there will be injunctions ap
plied for by the railroads interested.
Another Cotton Mill for Rockingham.
The Pee Dee Cotton Mill Company,
of Rockingham, has decided to dupli
cate its mill by building another there
with 6,000 spindles. This wrU give
the town of Rockingham eight cotton
mills. -
3Iasistrates 3Iust Work Public Roads
The Attorney General's opinion
was asked whether a justice of tike
peace has to work the highways. The
attorney general says, "Yes;" that sec
2039 of the Code, which gave exemption,
is repealed by chapter 93, acta of 1889.
FIFTY FIFTH CONGRESS.
Proceedings of Both the Senate and
House Day By Day.'
THE SENATE. v -00th
Dav. During its session of
three hours, the Senate passed a con
siderable number of bills from the
general calendar, among the number
one authorizing the construction of
eight new revenue cutters not exceed
ing an aggregate of $1,025,000. A
resolution offered by Chandler, of New
Hampshire, authorizing the committee
on naval affairs to send for persons and
papers in the course of the investiga
tion of the Maine disaster was adopted.
Among other bills passed were: To
increase the pension of Mrs. Letitia
VTyler Semple, a daughter of President
John Tyler, to $50 a month.
! eisiDATi After the passage of nu
merous bills from the calendar, the
Senate began the consideration of
the measure providing for a na
tional sj'stem of quarantine. Lit
tle beyond the reading ofthe bill
was accomplished. Some desultory
discussion occurred on an amendment,
but no progress was made on the gen
eral bill. Among the bills passed were
the following: To authorize the Pen
fiacola, Alabama and Tennessee Rail
road company to erect a bridge across
the Alabama river in Wilcox county,
Ala. ; to establish a light house at the
Pitch of the Cape Fear river, near Wil
mington, N. C. , at a cost not to exceed
$70,000; to extend the uses of the mail
service, the plan being to adopt the re
turn postal card of the United States
Economic Company.
62d Day. Business in the legislative
session of the Senate was confined to
the passage of a few bills largely of a
local character. The nation quarantine
bill was not considered. When the
Senate convened Davis, of Minnesota,
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations, reported a resolution to pro
vide for annexing the Hawaiian island .
to the United States. The resolution
was read by the title only, and placed
on the calendar.
63r Day. In the Senate, Mallory, of
Florida, delivered an extended speech
in opposition to the national quaran
tine bill. He held strongly that the
national government ought not to
trench upon the limits of the constitu
tion by invading the rights of the
States to establish their own quaran
tine regulations. He advocated
strengthening the national maritime
quarantine. Bacon, of Georgia, main
tained that the matter of quarantine
was not a sectional question, all parts
of the United States being liable to epi
demics. ' 'I favor, " said he, ' 'all the aid
the government can give iu the preven
tion of epidemics and the stamping out
of disease, but I do not favor a regula
tion which will deny a State or com
munity the right to protect itself by
quarantine regulations. Previous to
this, Mr. Butler, of North Carolina,
made a few remarks in denunciation of
the Torrey bankruptcy measure. At
'4:50, on motion of Frye, of Maine, the
Senate went into executive session,
and at 5 o'clock p. m, adjourned until
Monday.
THE HOUSE.
OGtii Day. This being the second
Monday of the month, it was given
over, under the rules, to the considera
tion of business relating to the District
of Columbia. The District business
was concluded at 4:35 p. m. A few Sen
ate bills were passed and at 5 o'clock
the House adjourned.
07th Day. Tho House agreed to con
sider the bill for the relief of the legal
heirs of the. Maine disaster, as soon as
the postoffice appropriation bill, which
was taken up in the House, is out of the
way. During the general debate on the.
postoffice bill, members eagerly took
advantage of the latitude allowed in
committee of the whole on the state of
the Union to discuss various political
questions and the debate accordingly
covered a wide range.
08th Day. The rumor that the Presi
dent fixed a day for Congress to ad
journ hasn't any foundation, as he has
not decided to fix a date for adjourn
ment by a certain day. The postofiice
appropriation bill, which was techni
cally the subject before the House,
was almost lost track of in the debate
as on yesterday numerous topics were
discussed, but for the first time
the Cuban-Spanish question, which
had been kept in the back ground here
tofore, " forged to the front. The sub
ject of Hawaiian annexation also came
in for much attention today. .
09th Day. No political questions
were discussed in the House. The
whole session was devoted strictly to
the postoffice appropriation bill, which
was taken up for amendment under the
five minute rule. The question which
consumed the major portion of the time
related to the allowance of clerk hire at
postoffices and to rural free delivery.
The House increased the allowance for
rural free delivery from 150,000 to
.300,000 and defeated the proposition
for increased clerk hire. The amend
ment to iucrease the appropriation for
rural delivery was offered by Stokes,
Democrat.
70th Day. The House spent another
day on the postoffice apprbpriation bill,
but only disposed of two pages of it.
Most of the day was devoted to a debate
on the merits of the pneumatic tube mail
service in New York, Boston and Phila
delphia, and the advisability of con
tinuing the existing contracts. An ef
fort to strike out the appropriation of
$225, 000 was defeated, but the opponents
of the apropriation succeeded in secur
ing au amendment providing that no
additional contracts should be made.
Ah amendment was adopted making it
a misdemeanor for any person to "pad"
the mails during the period when they
are being weighed to determine the
compensation to be paid to the railroads
for their transportation. The amend
ment was recommended by the Depart
ment. The conference report on the
agricultural appropriation bill was
agreed, to.
71st Day. The House passed the
postoffice appropriation bill, which has
been under discussion for three days.
The main points of attack were the ap
propriations of S30, 000,000 for railroad
transportation of mails, and $171,000
for special facilities between New York
and New Orleans, and 325,000 for spe
cial facilities from Kansas City to New
ton, Kansas. These items annually at
tract more or less of a contest. This
year the opposition seemed to be less
intent All efforts to reduce the ap
propriation for railroad transportaion
signally failed and the vote on tha
Southern mail subsidy was 77 to 98
against striking out. .
SNAP SHOTS AT 7 HE NEWS.
The South.
John and Samuel Turner were killed
in a fight between rival factions in Lee
county, Va.
New port News, Va., is to have the
largest dry dock in the world. It is to
be 900x90 feet
' The Zeb Vance Democratic Club, at
Asheville. N. C, has a membership of
1,039 members. '
All street railways in Kuoxville.
Tenn., including the West End, will be
merged in ten days.
A dispatch says Lee Turnfill, who
runs a distillery at Union, S. C, shot
his colored housekeeper and escaped.
At Newberry, S. C, Miss Carrie
Godfrey was thrown from a buggy and
killed while driving with Mr. J, B.
Mayes.
A seal weighing seventy pounds was
caught at Fort Anderson, seventeen
miles below Wilmington, N. C,ina
shad net. It was purchased for $0.
President E. B. Andrews, of Brown
University, lecturod at the State Normal
and Industrial College, Greensboro,
N. C, on the 16th. Subject, "General
Robert E. Lee. "
At Meridian, Miss., J R. Royals,
his wife and ; the latter's sister were
poisoned by a servant, a 12-year-old
negro boy; Royals and the young lady
are at the point of death.
Near Talbotton, Ga., W. S. Brown, a
prominent planter, shot and killed J.
H. Miller. Brown is held by the cor
enerfor murder. The cause of the trag
edy is kept a secret.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee
has decided that the State law requir
ing railroad companies to provide sep
arate coaches for white and colored
passengers was constitutional.
Geoorgia's county conventions for
county and State officers are to be held
June Oth, and the State convention on"
June 24th; judicial convention, July
20th. All who abide by the party prim-'
aries can vote.
Two young men,, giving their names
as Alf and Will Barnett, from Unicorn,
Tenn., were arrested at Marion, N. C,
for passing counterfeit money, says the
Charlotte Observer.; They were bound
over in 8G00 bonds each.
The Prosperity (S. C.) cotton mill has
been given a verdict for $6,780 damages
against the Southern Water Supply
Co., of Atlanta, for failure to carry out
a contract, resulting in serious damage
to the interest of the mill.
A few days since at Atlanta, Ga. ,
Judge Berry and Orth Stein, editor of
the Looking Glass, had a right in the
dining room of the Kimball House. It
was, it is said, a feud of long standing,
and Stein got the worst of the scrap.
Representative Wheeler, of Alabama,
introduced a joint resolution before the
House of Representatives for immediate
notice to be served upon Spain that
Americans and American interests in
Cuba must be protected, and that the
atrocities now being perpetrated in
that island must cease.
The North.
The lower House of the Ohio Legisla
ture has defeated a two-cent per mile
railway fare bill.
Five students have beon dismissed
from the State University, at Columbus,
O. , and twenty-two supended, as tho
outcome of a recent riotous outbreak.
Through a legislative error Texas
will have to hold two elections in No
vember, entailing an extra cost of $!00
000. Mrs. Wilmerding. great-granddaughter
of Commodore Vanderbilt and wife
of "Jack" Wilmerding of New York,
is a paretic patient in Bloomingdale
Asylum,)
Twenty miles of railroad tracks in
Chicago will be elevated this summer.
The cost will be in the neighborhood of
8,000,000, and will give employment
to 25,000 men.
The Rhode Island Republican Con
vention has nominated for Governor,
Elisha Dyer; Lieutonant Governor,
WTilliam J. Gregory, and Secretary of
Stete, Charles P. Bennett.
Everybody interested in seeing the
latest developments in high-grade
wheels should send a postal to the John
P. Lovell Company, Boston, Mass., for
their new catalogue. It contains val
uable information.
At Kansas City, Mo., horse meat was
served at tho annual banquet of tho
Kansas City Veterinary College.
Though the spread was elaborate, not a
morsel of meat other than the flesh of
the horse was served. From soup to
roast it was all horse. The students
and faculty who gathered around the
board made merry and insisted that it
was appetizing.
Miscellaneous.
California crops are again being
jeopardized by lack of rain.
The American and Pacific Express
Companies are about to consolidate.
The negro, Will Tut t, who slew his
wife for wanting to go to a barbecue,
has been sentenced to be hanged at
Mayfield, Ky.
A bill is pending in the Canadian
Parliament imposing a poll tax of $500
on each Japanese immigrant.
Floods along the Grand and Thames
Rivers in Western Ontario have left
over 1500 persons homeless.
A bill before the Maryland Legislature-will
increase the cost of a retail
liquor license to $500.
Wilbur Rutlede, while sitting in a
church at Princeton, Ind. , was stunned
by a lightning flash and insanity fol
lowed. J. B. Greenhut, of Peoria, 111., head
of the old Whiskey Trust, is planning
a new distillers' combination in Ohio
and Kentucky.
The spring thaw has caused a freshet
on upper Hudson. The Adirondock
railroad is several feet under water.
Trains abandoned.
Sir Henry Bessemer, the celebrated
inventor of Bessemer steeJ, is dead.
Missouri's Democratic State Con
vention, called for Springfield on
August 10, will have 721 delegates.
A steel passenger steamer, to b9
launched at Wyandotte, Mich., will
be christened America, in sympa
thy with the prevailing public senti
ment The coasting steamer Enreka was
wrecked in sight of San Francisco,
Cal. Her passengers were rescued and
the storm's damage to shipping was
$200,000. -r
COXSt'L-GEXERAL LEE
More In Danger of a Collapse From
Overwork Than of Personal Harm.
A special dispatch to tho Baltimore
Sun from Richmond Va., says: Consul-General
Fitzhugh Lee is, according
to his son, FitzLee, Jr., who returned
on the 15th from a two weeks' visit to
his father, more in danger of a collapse
from overwork than of personal injury
at the hands of the Spaniards.
"Father is really in no more danger
in Havana than he would be in
Richmond," said Mr. Lee. "Ho
goes about the city there with
just as ' much freeness as. he
would in this city and eo far as ! could
discover the people ssemto have the ut
most respect for him. He is not going
to be harmed by tho Spaniards. He is
in serious danger, though, of a collapso
from overwork. He has n great deal
more to do than any one man can well
do and the pressure of his duties is un
doubtedly telling upon him.
"I wish I could say 6ometuing about
the conditions that exist in Cuba, but I
cannot do so, for my father's parting
instruction tome was to kecpniyniouth
closed and I have tried to obey, him."
WATSON NOMINATED
For .Governor of (leorgiiv- by tho
Populist Party.
The Georgia Populist Stato Conven
tion met at Atlanta, aud afterji stormy
Bession nominatedjThos. E. Watson fa-'
Governor. The ticket was completed,
as follows: For Secretary of State, I
O. Jackson, of Decatur; Comptroller
General, Ben Millikeu, of Wayne;
Treasurer, J. H. Traylor, of Tioup;
Commissioner of Agriculture, . L.
Pock, Rockdale; Prison Commissioner,
J. S.'Davitt, of Polk; School Commis
sioner, Ben Zettler,! of Fulton; Attor
ney General, Carep Thornton, of Mus
cogee; Chief Justice, Walter B. Hill,
of Bibb; Associate .lustice (long term),
W. R. Leatin, of Chatham; Asuociato
Justice (short term), Clayton Snead.
of Columbia. The initiative and refer
endum and everything else in sight
was endorsed.
There Is much sound sense In the rec
ommendation of the Grand Jury of
Kings County, New York, that the of
fice of coroner be alwlished, on tho
ground that said ollico is of no pracfl-;
cal value in ferreting out crime. Tlif:
allegation that coroners are useless,
functionaries will apply In other States:
besides New York.
CAPE FEAR & TADUN VALLET RT.
JOHJf Giix, Receiver.
CONDENSED HOUEDULF.
IN EFFECT JANUARY 23RD, 1898.
North Bound. No. 2, Dnily.
Lv. Wilmineton 0 00 a m
A r. Fayette ville. 12 10 pm
Lv. Fayettoville... 12 18 p m
Lv. Fayettevllld Junction 12 25 pm
Lv, Banford 1 48 p m
Lv. Climax 3 47 p m
Ar. Greensboro 4 20 p tn
Lv. Greensboro 4 CO p m
Lv. Stokesdalo 517pm
Lv. Walnut Cove. . . 5 47 p m
Lv. Rural Hall 0 13 p ru
Ar. Mt. Alry 7 45pm
Somh Bound. No. 1, Daily.
Lv. Mt. Alrv 8 41 a m
Lv. llural Hall 10 04 am
Lv. Walnut Cove 10 33 a m
Lv. Stokesdale.. 11 tG a m
Ar. Greensboro 11 f,5 a m
Lv. Greensboro 12 17 p ra
Lv. Climax 12 4.r p m
Lv. San ford 2 p in
A; Fayetteville Juuction . .i , . 3 GF p in
Ar. Faycttville.- I .4 00 p m
Lv. Fayi'ttevillo : ... 410pm
Ar. Wilmington - '. J 2 t m
Sortn Bound. So. i, iJai'ly
Lv. P.enufttsvillo 8 00 m
Ar. Maxton 'J02 a m
Lv. Maxtor.... 'J (-7 a m
Lv. l?d Spring 3 .15 a m
Lv. Hope Mills .10 21n ra
Ar. Ftiycttcvllla 10 4 ) am
South Bound. iNo. 3, Unity.
Lv. FayetU-villo 4 50 p in
Lv. Hope Mills 5 07 p in
Lv. Bed Hprius 5 4 1-pm
Ar. Maxtoa ... 0 11 p m
Lv. M-ixton 0 1- p m
Ar. B'u;e!t8villo .. 7 15pni
North Bound. .No. IQ
Lv. Raniscur . 0 4') urn
Lv. Climax ' 8 30 a ru
Ar. Grcennboro- 0 17am
Lv. Grepnfboro1 03 am
Lv. Stokesdale H 7 r rri
Ar Mldi.on 11 io p tn
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Lv. Madi-on 412 3 p in
Lv. Stokedule 1 25 p in
A r. Greensboro 2 4Vpm
Lv. (ir-ecftboro 15 p m
Lv. ( UmBX 4 2" p in
Ar. Bamaev.r. C 1 ) p ui
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Charlolto Railroad, at Gr-ejjhboro with
Southern Railway, at Wr.luut Covo with Nor
folk & S' extern Railway.
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