"LIVE AND LET LIVE."
VOL. I. NO. 34.
DUNN, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24. 1889.
SQiTER & STEWART, Eds. and Props.
r !
r-HU,. Horn contain about 05,000,000
jcop'.c, and their territory U about
tvncc as large as ours.
-:tr the Chicago News : "The 'ladies
of the White House' have been gifted
with criMbk namc9, worthy of imita
tion i'i American families Martha,
Marv. -Abigail. Elia, Elizabeth, Mar
garrt. Sarah, Jane, Harriet, Dorothy,
.lu'.ia. I f t tia, Emily, Angelica, Louisa,
Lucy, France and Caroline are all good,
wp:r,aniy namc3."
i iifrc was no use in allowing Adams,
the f ri'cr, to starve himself to death in
ac"n nccordinto the Atlanta Conrti
li'i, . In New York when a prisoner
tr c- that sort of thing they tie his hands
bob in 1 him, pry open his mouth, intro
unff.'i spoonful of liquid food and hit
his. thro-it a gentle tap. His muscles
a;a-ir.o lically relax, his throat open3,
and the food is swallowed. This method
never fails. '
There i- a cradle in New York, ac
(oi'lh'j: to the Detroit Free Press, thai
ha- rocked over IOiOD babies. It be
pan to rock nineteen years ago, "whea
tii.- Si-ters of Charity started a littU
fr;dlin hospital on Twelfth street,
Inc.v York, with $5 in the treasury.
Sik-r Irene was at the head of it, as sh
is -ti;l, wonderful, frail little womau,
vli- -e genius anl devotion will alwayi
y it oi : inhered by those who have onct
I chc'il her among the babies whom she
hir- -;ived and succored.
representative Kilgore, of Texa9, the
irtiit objector, lost h's vote during the
ast (1 ij of the Fiftieth Congress on the
evolution giving the House employes a
jionth's extra piy. lie wa9 being shaved
q the cloak room when the resolution
:arne up and a -deed the barber to hasten
I'm w irk so that he might record his
aeiirhx, but the ,;artist" held him until
:he fipjtlause of the beneficiaries told that
;le rcsoluion had been adopted. The
barber v.as interested to the extent of
r'j0 and had a substanial object in the
Delilah like expedient.
A co operative creamery In the United
States is doing a big business, declares
tic A.:,ericaa Agriculturist, it it utilizes
the milk or r ream of 2000 cows. Little
Denmark ha over 200 such factories
that w.h work up the milk of 5000 to
nono cows. The whole milk system,
with separation of the cream by the cen
trifuge, is universally adopted. The
i o-a of producing milk varies from sev-enty-tive
tents to $1 per 100 pounds;
."jiUMi pounds cf milk in one year is much
nliove the average yield per cow; from
twenty-live'"'" to thirty pounds of milk
arc required to make a pound of butter,
and about " thirteen pounds Or one of
theec.
Colonel J. T. North, who is known as
"the Nitrate King," or "South Ameri
can Monte Cristo," i3 dazzling London
by the magnificence of his entertaining,
the cost of a fancy-dress ball which he
recently give being estimated at $75,
ooo. And yet the Colonel (his title is
now, and was acquired through becom
ing the head of a volunteer regiment)
was thirty years ngo a workman in an
implement factory at Leeds. He was
sent to South America to put up ma
chinery for his employers, obtained con
trol of vast nitrate beds by government
concession, and made his millions. He
now lives at a beautiful country place in
Kent, England, and is at the head of
many money-making ventures.
An enterprising ruler is Msidi, the
ru'er of Sanga, an African province,
facetiously observe? the Atlanta Consti
tution. His is a great kingdom and he is
evidently a wise man. The advance of
civilization has doubtless furnished to
snda some Canada where its boodle al
dermen can go, for Msidi eyes all officers
with suspicion. He is evidently a gen
ius. Finding h'tnself the happy posses
sor of a vast domain and 500 wives, he
has divided the country into districts and
has placed one of his consorts as ruler
over each. The amount of her pin
money depends upon the amount of
revenue she turns into the national
treasury, and no doubt she takes pains
to sec that every subject pays his trib-uto.-
1 he correct number of stars on the
United States flag to-day is thirty -eight,
ind thirty-eight asserts the New York
Times it will remain until at least the
iourth day of July, 1800. North and
South Dakota, Montana, and Washing
ton have not yet been admitted as States
into the Union, and consequently, they
ire not yet entitled to representation on
:hc flag. They have only been author
ized by law to prepare for admission.
Their peoples have first to elect dele
gates to constitutional conventions.
These conventions must prepare State
Constitutions, and these Constitutions
must be submitted, in October, to the
vote of the people, and State officers
ilecteJ. It the Constitutions are then
ratified by the popular vote, the Presi
dent is required to issue a proclamation
innouncing the fact, and then, and then
anly, will North and South Dakota,
Montana, and Washington become StateJ
ot the Union. The four stars, however,
will not be added to the flag until the
jurth day of July next succeeding, such
being the provision of the general
itatutes of the United States.
He countries between Texas
ALL OVER THE SOUTH !
NEWS FROM EACH STATE
FarmerV Alliance Active-Notea of Acci
dents, Etc, Classified.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The State Convention of the Young
Men's Christian Association convened at
Greenville Thursday.
Judson Peoples, who was shot by John
Clay at Barnwell on April 4, died Sin
day. A coroner's jury was impaneled,
and the verdict was that he came to his
death by a shot discharged from a pistol
in the hands of John Clay.
It is stated that a syndicate has been
formed with the view of purchasing all
all the undeveloped phosphate lands in
South Carolina. Three or four tracts of
about 300 acres each, have been old re
cently to the combination at from $60,
000 to $70,000 each. Lower South
Carolina is said to contain thousands of
acres of phosphate beds .
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Charleston News and Courier company
unanimously elected Major J C Hemp
hill manager, to fiil the vacancy occa
sioned by the death of Capt. F. V.
Dawson, who was murdered March 12.
It is not probable that there will be any
further change in the staff of the paper,
at least for some time to come.
West Keeler, colored, one o'f the con
victs received at the penitentiary from
Greenville county, made a break for
liberty while working on the canal and
was shot by the guard . He had been
convicted of larceny of live stock, and
only had one year to serve. The bullet
entered the left hip from the rear and
made its exit through the right groin.
The penitentiary physician entertains
very little hope of his recovery.
The Governor has pardoned Randolph
Cook, convicted at the September, 1893,
term of court, for Marlborough county
of cow stealing, and sentenced to im
prisonment in the penitentiary for one
year. The pardon was strongly recom
mended by Senator McCall, Col Knox
Livingston and other prominent citizens
of Marlborough county, and endorsed
by the Judge and Solicitor, for the rea
son that there is ground for the belief
that Cook was only guilty of receiving
the stolen property, acd has already been
sufficiently punished.
At Leesville the marshal arrested a
drunken Irishman and put him in the
puard house for safe keeping. During
the night the guard house was consumed
by fire and the poor unfortunate was
roasted alive. The origin of the fire is
a mystery, but it is thought that when
the man awoke and found himself con
fined he attempted to burn hi9 way out.
He is said to have been a sewing ma
chine repairer, and his name is supposed
to be John Doyle. The verdict of the
coroner's jury was in accordance with
the above facts.
VIRGINIA.
A difficulty arose between Cockey
Smarr and Bernard Donnelly at Alexan
dria, and they settled the matter with
a pitched battle, Marquis of Queensberry
rules. 'Squire Cotts, of the town, then
settled the sluggers by arresting thein
and fining them $13.00 each.
Mrs Maria Grasty, wife of Philip L
Grasty, a prominent merchant of Dan
ville, took an overdose of chloral
Wednesday night and was found on the
floor, in the middle of her room, the
next morning, where she died during
the night.
The iSales of revenue stamps at the
Danville Custom Houe for manufac
tured tobacco in March were $47,042.07,
which is an increase over February sales
of $3,005.92. Sales for March, 1888,
weie $28,793.20. The increase in March
this year over the same month last year
is $18,249.56.
Further reports of damage by the re
cent storm shdw that ths loss of ovster
vessels on both bay and seaside is much
larger than at first supposed, and the loss
of life correspondingly greater. Three
moxi bodies were washed ashore near
Cape Charles, one of which was that of
uap Channock, of Jbastville.
The Virginia and Kentucky Railroad
Co., D S Pierce of Wytheville, presi
dent, previously reported, will build a
railroad to the Kentuckv btate line,
distance of 200 miles, via Stuart, Wythe
ville and Tazewell C. II. Six tunnels
will be constructed averaging 1,000 feet
each. The survey will commence in May.
J C Wrenshall, of Danville, is chief
engineer.
A fatal wreck occurred on the York
River branch of the Richmond nnd Dan
ville railroad, about two miles above
West Point. The heavy rains of Satur
day washed out a culvert and a part of
the dam becween the tank pond and the
river, and an engine and seven frtight
cars plunged into the washout. Two men,
a colored brakeman and the fireman, a
young man named Durvin, were buried
under the cars and killed. The engineer,
named Lynch, was terribly scalded, but
managed to crawl out.
FLORIDA.
The Interstate Military Demonstration
opened in Jacksonville auspiciously.
It is reported that a cigar factory
employing 200 hands will be removed
from New York to Tampa.
The St. John's and Indian River Canal
and Steamboat Company has been or-
Janized to build a canal from the St.
ohn's river, at or near Lake Harny, to
the Indian river near Aurantia. The dis
tance is about eleven miles, and the es
timated cost is about $1,000,000.
There is considerable interest in the
State over the proposition to elect Sena
tor Call's successor by the Legislature
now assembled. Senator Call's term ex
pires on March 4, 1891. While the pres
ent Legislature is the last to meet be
fore then, another Legislature will bo
elected in November, 1890, and there
will be thirty days interim between the
end of Senator Call's and the regular
k
of the Legislature elected in
TENNESSEE.
John L. nudiburg has been appointed
postmaster at Knoxville by President
Harrison.
Saturday a negro man stopped with a
well known negro farmer of De Kalb
county and stayed until Monday morn
ing. The farmer saw that his neck was
badly skinned and swollen and the 'ne
gro on being questioned closely; con
fessed that he was Mack Francis who
bad been hanged Friday at Lebanon,
Tcnn. His heart had continued to beat
for twenty minutes after hanging when
physicians pronounced him dead. Rela
tives took charge of the body and, it is
said, resuscitated him.
A girl aged 18 years committed suicide
at Nashville under distressing circum
stances. She had been reclaimed from
evil ways by the Woman's Christian
Union. She was importuned by a man
named Hodges to leave a pleasant home
In which she had been placed. Hodges
seemed to have a wonderful influence
over ber, and so, saving that she would
j rather die than live the life he wanted
her to lead, she fired a pistol shot i
mto her heart. The affair created a
genuine sensation.
Senator Jesse W. Sparks superintended
a bonfire on the capitol grounds at Nash
ville. The Senator had his coat off and
stirred up a mass of burning papers with
a ten foot pole. Thirty-one million
dollars worth of bonds and two hundred
thousand dollars of old Torbett issue
were curling up in the smoke before the
eyes of an interested little group. The
bonds were of the denomination of fifty
dollars, five hundred and one thousand
dollars. They had been printed incom
pliance with the famous one hundred
and three act, to settle the State debt,
but the act was declared unconstitution
al by the Supreme court, and since then
the bonds have been packed in the base
ment of the capitol in sixteen large
boxes. Twenty-eight plates from which
they were printed were also mutilated
andscld. This was done by orders of
the Legislature.
GEORGIA.
The Farmer's Alliance will build a
cotton seed oil mill at Madison.
The Americus and Montgomery Rail
road Company will extend their road to
Savannah if $.50,000 is subscribed by the
citizens. The olfei will be accepted.
Atlanta's street railways have been
consolidated and are now owned by a
stock company of ten of the richest citi
zens. Gen James Lonestrert's mansion at
Gainesville was destroyed by fire Tues
day. All his war relics and souvenirs
were consumed.
OTHER STATES.
The Farmers' AHiance of Alabama
proposes to joiu hands with the Alliance
of Georgia in its fight against the jute
bagging trust. They will use cotton
cloth as a covering for their cotton.
The Meade County Natural 'Gas Co.
has been incorporated in Kentucky.
The authorized capital stock is $1,000,
000. Several more gas companies have
also been formed with $1,000,000 capi
tal. NORTH CAROLINA.
The negro exodus is more active than
heretofore. Every train carries hundreds
away .
The North Carolina Farmers' Alli
ance, representing seventy thousand
farmers, will bovcott the Cotton Bagging
Trust.
Lane Malnate, of Washington D.
C, were the lowest bidders for the
masonry work on the area walls of the
postoffice at Charlotte . Their bid was
$15,000, which ivas accepted.
In Swain county a white man named
Sparks was instantly killed. He was
rolling logs on a flat car when the tackle
gave way and the hook was thrown vio
lently against his face, tearing away one
side of it, and fracturing his skull, from
which death instantly resulted.
Joseph A Creech, of Raleigh, writes
to Mayor Grant, of New York, saying he
has a fortune of considerable amount
awaiting any relative of one H. Nott,
deceased, and who is supposed to have
beei in business in that city in 1884. " '
The inspection of truck farms in New-
berne section shows that peas and pota
toes are not damaged so much by cold
as by wind. But few pes are seriously
damaged, but on light lands beans have
been literally uncovered and left bare in
some instances. Seed are actually scat
tered about the ground.
The signal service telegraph cable
crossing Bregan Inlet, was swept away
during the recent storm. Telegraphic
communications with Cape Hatteias is
tlms cut off till a new cable shall have
been laid. The schooner Lollie, Capt
Sharp, is ashore near Kitty Hawk, and
will probably be a total loss. The crew
was saved.
There is quite a lively railway war in
progress in Durham. It grows out of a
loDg standing enmity between the Rich
mond and Danville and the Seaboard
road. The Richmond and Danville have
a line right through town. The author
ities gave the right of way to the Dur
ham and Northern railway, which is run
by the Seaboard system. This created
feeling on part of the friends of the
Richmond and Eanville. A large force
began the work of living the track of
the Durham and Northern road through
the town alongside of the track cf the
Richmond and Danville roid. They
had laid the track a distance of four
squares ,when they were arrested by
deputy sheriffs, and notice was given
that an injunction had been applied
for.
Pine Straw Versus Jute.
Nee;otiations have just been concluded
between the Acme Manufacturing Com
pany, of Wilmington, N. C, and out
s"de capitalists for the immediate erec
tion throughout the pine region of the
South of factories for manufacturing
pine straw bagging for cotton, and the
pojectors claim these factories will not
be run in the Interest of any trust, but
on business principles for legitimate
profits. It is believed by those who
fairly tested pine straw bagging last
season that it will prove a formidable
rival ol jute bagging.
COTTON CULTURE. 1
MIST A TO DT mmiZIKG.
Where Farmers Err in the Use of Phos
phates. Pork at 3 Cents.
The ordinary yield of cotton is cot
sufficient to pay the grower his expenses
and the common wages cf a laborer.
The census reports give the average
yield per acre in Georgia as 137 pounds;
South Carolina, 14J pounds; Alabama,
130 pounds; and the highest in Louisi
ana, 220 pounds. As a bale of 4o0
pounds per acre n not uncommon with
good farmers, and the best culture pro
duces 1,000 pounds, it is evident that
the lowest yield must be much below
the average. Indeed, many fields pro
duce no more than fifty pounds per acre,
and some wretched patches may be found,
without going far to find them, upon
which as little as fifteen to twenty-tiv-
pounds per acre only is grown. What
a wa3te 01 labor auct or land, and of pos-
sible wealth to the community !
Cotton is a crop that exhausts the
land and requires a rich soil or a well
manured one to yield its best, and its
best, as yet, no one knows; but 1,500
pounds of lint per acre has been crown
by a well known farmer in Georgia. It
requires nitiogen and phosphoric acid,
but it gets only the latter, which alone
is useless for the crop as food would be
to a man without water. Plants must
have every element they require, or they
cannot grow, and the rule among the
cotton planters is to use "phosphate"
only. This results in a starved crop and
loss of labor. It has been found that
stable or yard manure, or such compost
in which this forms a part, is the best
food for the cotton plant, and the best
place to put this food is in the rows
where the seed is planted. A good
compost is made of pen or yard manure,
black soil from the woods, or a swamp,
or from ditches, with cotton seed aucl
phosphate. Only the cheapest fertili
zers can be used for this crop, on ac
count of its low price, and the cheapest
is made at home. Southern farmers
waste millions of dollars worth of ma
nure every year by turning their cattle
out in the woods and leaving their hogs
to run on the roads Pork could be
made in the South for three cjnts a
pound by feeding corn, sweet potatoes,
pea3 and bran, but millions of pounds
are purchased at ten to fifteen cents a
pound. And all the manure which the
hogs would make if kept up and fed
would be worth as much for the cotton
crop as all the "phosphate which is
bought.
To produce profitable crops of cotton
a thorough change is needed. Long
ago Southern farmers were told of the
benefits of diversified crops; of growing
clover, grass, peas and other fodder
crops and breeding stock and making
manure; and now we urge a better
culture of the leading Southern crop,
not that twice as much cotton may be
grown on one-third of the land at a
third of the cost for the culture, and the
spare laud be into corn, peas, millet and
clover, and then the clover turned un
der for cotton. A rotation of crops is
indispensable for profitable culture of
the soil, and under this system an ex
cellent rotation would come in. One
enthusiastic and progressive farmer in
the bouth says he is not going to stop
until he grows five bales of cotton to the
acre. He has grown three bales and
will grow five beyond a doubt, and we
daresay he will - not stop trying for
more, even then.
THE EEIGN OF LIQUOR
Which Has Opened Up in the Oaoital of
Mississippi
Jackson, Mis?., did not have a fire
Wednesday nor a riot, but strangers who
did not understand the situation thought
that Hades was to pay. The trouble, or
rather the occasion, for there was no
trouble, was ;the opening of the first
saloon alter the two years reign of pro
hibition. It was known that the city
authorities would grant license to
he Lawrence house, and a crowd gath
ered in front of the saloon, pressing and
squeezing each other in the manner of
voters, waiting for the polls to open.
All sorts, kinds, and conditions of the
city's population were anxiously wait
ing to
TAKE SUGAR IN THEIr'N.
Finally the proprietor telephoned
from the city hall:
"It is all right, Pete, let her go."
The doors swung open and scores of
men who hadn't had a drink on the
square, open and above board style, for
two long, dreary and desolate years,
faced the counter and named their p'zen
"with the alacrity of men who held win
ning lottery tickets."
THE GOOD NEWS SPREAD
Like a prairie on fire, and the thirsty
dropped work and speedily betook
themselves to the spot where the lager
flowed and the red liquor bubbled. The
colored people especially regarded it as
a new emancipation and the dawning ot
a new era, and were on hand to the ex
tent that their cash would allow.
Nearly everything was full and the only
apparent danger was that ihe saloon
keepers, who have just
PAID $2,000 LICENSE,
Will start gunning for the blind tigers
which have "on the quiet,'' dispensed
the vilest liquors extant since the town
has been dry. Four licenses at 2.000 j
were granted, the amount equally divid
ed between the state and the city.
Ex-Mayor of Charleston Goes to Alabama,
Wm A. Courtenay, Ex-Mayor of
Charleston, and one of South Carolina's
most distinguished citizens, has been
elected president of the Besaemer Land
Company, and will in future reside at
Bessemer, Ala. Mr Courtenay is one of
the trustees of the Peabody fund, and
was Mayor of Charleston for eight years,
including the memorable earthquake peri
riod, when he became known tothewhole
country. He is a valuable acquisition to
the rapidly developing mineral districts
of Alabama.
u smL
The Industrial Development Throughout
the South Still in Progress.
Among other enterprises reported by
the Manufacturer's Record for the week
are a $200,000 coal and coke company
at Birmingham; rolling mill and pottery
works fit Fort Payne; the purchase of
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Jv Zr . i ! VvT ""V,.' moma.attheUurelHouse,Lakewood,N.J.,
six cotton seed oil mills , three of them!,,.. . , fl
to be very large, one at Baton Rouge, S1y-nve.
La., one at Charlotte, N. C, and one at j The Consbohocken Worsted Company,
Houston, Texas: a $1,500,000 furniture oI Philadelphia, has made an assignment,
factory companv at Ahevi!le, N. C. ; a i Tn company operates three mills and the
$15,000 furniture company at Lenoir, N.
C. ; a 5.000 spindle cotton mill at Con
ccrd, N C, where a $300,000 cotton fac
tory and a $1,000,000 cotton bag factory
were reported last week ; a cotton mill
at Lauiens, S. C. In every part of the
South this remarkable activity is seen,
and every day adds to the list of enter
prises which aro destined to a id so im
measurably to the wealth of this whole
section.
" predict for the X'. c South an era of
prosperity ichich shall eclipse any which has
ever been aehieced in any other section of
our great country o rernarknUe fr its
succesfa in that line," says Hon. Henry
B. Pierce, Secretary of State of Massa
chusetts. PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The Duchess of Cambridge is dead.
The Prince of Wales wtars green kids.
The Queen of Greece is a clever artist.
Ex-King Milan wears a steel undershirt.
The Princess of Wales is forty-four years
old.
John G. Whittier. tho poet, is eighty
four. The Queen Dowager of Bavaria is dying ot
dropsy.
The Empress of Austria suffers from in
somnia. The Duke of Westminster is worth $80,
000,000.
Cardinal Manning's health is daily ira
proving. Ex-Senator Warner Miller is wortl
$5,000,000.
Armour, the Chicago butcher, is worth
$25,000,000.
Evangelist Moody is conducting a revival
in Chicago.
Senator Berry, of Missouri, began life
as a plowboy.
General Russell A. Alger, of Detroit,
is worth $5, 000,00a
The freedom of Edinburgh has been ten
dered to Mr. Parnell.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is rated
as high as $20,000,000.
Lieutenant-Governor CH.src,of Indiana,
is conducting revival meetings in-Covington,
Neal Dow.
Via 'P,-liil.;rm:V Una Lnnn
appointed a Commissioner for;Mauio to tb
Paris Exposition.
It is said that Mrs. Frank Leslie,, of New
York city, receives an olfcr of "marriage
nearly every day in the year.
Allen Thorndike Rice, Minister to Rus
sia, was kidnapped at the tender age of eight
years and carried off to Europe.
United States Senator Stanjori? and
Mrs. Stanford, and Justice and Mrs. Field
will presently set out for Alaska.
The Right Honorable William,- Henry.
Smith, First-Lord of the Treasury, is about
to be raised to the British peerage.
Ex-President Cleveland caught a ninety-four
pound tarpon in Laconlvitchee Creek,
in the Indian River region of Florida.
Ex-Attorxey-General Garland has
hung out his shingle, and will spend the rest
of his days in Washington practicing law.
Colonel Washburn, the new Minister to
Switzerland, is not only said to be the hand
somest man in Massachusetts, but he is some
thing of p poet as well.
The widow of General Grant will accom
pany her son, Colonel F. D. Grant, to Aus-
tria, when he goes there as United States
Minister.
General William S. Karney. tho fa
mous Indian fighter, is liviuci at Jackson
ville, Fla., and possesses good health, al
though eighty-niuc- years old.
Misses ttie Blaine, Floreuce Win
dom. Miss Miller and Mis Proctor will be
the caoin't families' contribution to the
Washington debutantes next winter.
One of the mo-t suooossf ul lawyers at At
lanta, Ga., is Charles H. T. Taylor, a colored
man, who began life as a bootblack. He for
merly practised lawin Boston.
Corporal Tanner, the new Commissioner
of Pensions, entered thp Union army when
only seventeen years old. He lost both of
his legs at the second battle of Bull Run.
Senator Berry, of Arkansas, was a sol
dier in- the Confederate army at the tender
age of sixteen. He lost a leg at Shiloli, and
after the war became a school teacher in
Carroll County, Ark.
Governor Btggp. of Delaware, owns a
dozen peach farms, is heavily interested in
several railroads, and is tin possessor of
wealth in other forms. . He does not show
this in his dress, however, for he wears &
swallow-tail coat, low-rut vest, and wida
trousers, all of the ityle of forty years ago,
while a high white hat covers his head.
A Centenarian Dead. j
M. Michel Eugene Chevreul, the distin
guished French chemist, has just died in Paris
at the age of 12. He was born at Angers,
August 31, 17. He was educated in the
schools of that place. InlSlO he was ap-
pointed a professor of chemistry in the Lycee
Charlemagne. He was awarded in 1823 a
prize of r-100 for an essay of animal oils.
He succeeded his old master Vauquelin in the
chair of chemistry at the Museum of Natural
History in lvlO. "He was made commander
of the Lc-gion of Honor in 1U. He was the
'autiior of "many works on w. Hitific subjects.
In lws" the rentenory of his birth was cele
bratod in Paris.
Almost to the last he was a devoted stu
dent, and his intellect and memory were
both miimpaired by advancing years. His
vitality was amazins. and he betrayed the
liveliest interest in all current affairs of the
day. Ilis daily life was one of extreme sim
plicity and rigid regularity. Of late years
he was only out of bed for a few hours daily,
but this wtjs onlv a matter of precaution. He
pursued his studies in l.is bftdrooin, and re
ceived his friends, with whom ho discussed
chemistry and colors, with unfailing anima- i
tion. It may be interesting to know that he
never drank, never smoked, and never ate
fish or drank milk except when mixed with
other food. His regular diet was of 6trong
snnna. brefstttdr or outlets, ami coffee.
Portsmouth Island Submerged.
During the recent ga'.e Portsmouth a
narrow island near Ocracoke Inlet, N. C.,
wa3 submerged, drowning cattle, sh eep
and hos. The water rose to many feet
in the houses, and there was great de
struction of property. The inhabi iants
took to tho housetops, remaining there
until the storm was over. Great flrjfer
ing was expeiienced, but no live -were
lost.
NORTH AND WEST.
NEWSY ITEMS BY TELEGEAPE
Being A Condensation of the Principal Han
penings in Different States
GEKERAL CHARLES KlXXAX&D GlUJIAM,
0(:ths UnM states Army, died of pnea.
monthly pay-roll amounted to about 135,000.
Liabilities $900,000.
Mrs. Rummage, of Pittston, Penn., over
come by" grief, committed suicide by jump
ing into a reservoir. Her son committed sui
cide a year ago, and her husband was killed
by lightning last September.
Charles F. Hatch, President of the
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pacific Railway
Company, and P. E. Lockwood, a real
estate dealer and capitalist, formerly of New
York, both committed suicide in Minneapolis,
Mixm.
The Governor of South Carolina has
granted a full pardon to two colored lynchers
convicted of murder, his ground being that
they had simply followed tho example of
white men, who had never been punished.
Davtd Lindsay, a farmer over sixty years
old, living near Ann Arbor, Mich., shot and
killed his adult son in a" drunken quarrel.
Gus Sunderland, a colored boy, living at
Mosely, S. C, was left by his mother to take
care of a younger brother, and getting tired
1 of the job, put a rope around the baby's neck
and hung it to the rafter of the house. The
child was dead when found.
A cyclone swept over Montgomery,
County, Ala. Two nieu were instantly
killed by lightning and several others were
shocked and seriously injured. Houses were
blown down and damage done to youug corn
and cotton crops.
A terrible forest tire in Patrick County,
Va., swept everything before it. One man,
six horses, a large number of hogs and cattle,
and about 2O0 dwellings and tobacco barns
were consumed. Many poor people are left
in a destitute condition.
Attorney-General Miller presented to
the Supreme Court the resolutions! of the Bar
on the death of Justice Matthews and made
an appropriate spaech, to which Chief J ustice
Fuller replied, and the resolutions were spread
upon the records.
Rear Admiral William Rogers Tay
lor, United States iNavy, retired, aiea in
Washington. Ho was born at Newport,
R. I., November 7, 1811, and entered the
navy as a midshipman in 1828.
The Chinese Minister gave a gorgeous
spread at Washington to the Cabinet and a
host of high officials. A magnificent display
of roses was one of the features of the
banquet.
President Harrison, accompanied by
Mrs. Harrison and her guest, Miss Murphy,
of Minneapolis, and Secretaries Blaine and
Windom, went down the Potomac for a day's
ride on the lighthouse tender Holly. The
little vessel steamed for a distance of about
forty miles, and then returned to the wharf,
which was reached about six o'clock. Before
leaving the President received the Chicago
nnd Ail America baseball clubs in the East
Room.
John Albert Brigiit, the candidate of
the Liberal Unionists, was elected to succeed
his father, the late John Bright, as represen
tative of Birmingham in Parliament. Mr.
Bright received 5M0 votes against 2500 votes
for William C Beale, the Gladstonian candi
date. Gabriel Dumont, the late leader in the
I Kiel reoeilion m me iiormwiai icjiiiwij,
I has arrived again on the scene of the 1885
; battles, and is addressing meetings of
! half-breeds, urging them to press their
i grievances upon the Canadian Government.
I At Ruatan, Jamaica, West Indies, the Rev.
I Henry Hobson, his wife and her companion,
a young girl,, all natives of Jamaica, were
' murdered by Joseph Bures.
Mr. Goschen, Chancellor of the British
Exchequer, laid before the House the budget
for the coming financial year. It shows a
! deficit of $10,000,000. This Mr. Goschen pro-
s ' poses to fill up by an increase of "the death
' duties and a slight increase in the duty on
J beer.
r i Count Herbert Bismarck and Councilor
'i Kranel will be German delegates to the
1 Samoan Confexenco.
There has been marked decadence in the
stove indu-try at Albany, and it is likely that
the business will leave that city entirely.
A queer drowning accident is reported at
Fish kill Landing. The youngest child of Mr.
and Mrs. McCall, a boy four years old,
reached down to get a drink of water from a
tub and fell in. Two minutes later his life
less body was drawn from the tub by his
aunt. The child apparently did not make a
struggle.
Louis L. Bobbins, of Nyack, has been ap-
pointed Superintendent of the Indian Ware-
house at New York city. Mr Robbins was
recommended by Senator Hiscock. He is one
of Nyack's oldest and most favorably known
residents, being for many years a member of
the Produce Exchange there. f
Governor Hill has signed Mr. Hamil
ton's bill, giving the consent of the State of
New York to the purchase by the United
States ot land in New York city for the pur
pose of an appraiser's warehouse and other
uses.
George Blzistetx, proprietor of tho
Courier of Buffalo, has been Indicted for
libel on complaint of Penitentiary Superin
tendent Stickney.
The following postmaster were appointed
iv New York Btate: Acra, John 8. Aldcn;
Arena, Daniel A. Fletcbeir, Argus-rille, Har
vey Bellinger; Carlisle, Peter W. Becker;
East Windham, Anable Butte; Eperance,
Avery B razee; Factory? ffle, D. H. Raton;
Howe's Cave, Charles Hi Ramsey; Hunter's
Land, Frances E. Snydec: Hyndiville, Clark
P Ronton- Jefferson. Claries B. Hubbeii:
Lexington, Ed. Palmer; Summit, Tnoma, over Marsh", coal mh and that -
H. Ferguson; Tannersville
u Wiffiam B.Ellif.
An explosion of gas occpa-ed in the Grant
Tunnel mine at Nantaoolu. Penn., causing
the instant death of CharJea Hogaa,a fir
boas, andEran MaddtfpumJrannerj
NEWS WLNNOWLNGS.
Important Happenings Gleaned
Late Dispatches.
From
Ellison Hatfield, sometimes called Ellison
Mounts, one of the participant in the Hat
field-McCoy feud, who W in the Pike County
jail in Kentucky, has made a confession
to State Attorney Ferguson. "I
was present," he said, "and participated
in the murder of the three McCoy t
brothers Talbot, Farmer, and Randolph, Jr.'
The brothers were taken from a school house j
in Logan County, W. Va., where they had;
been guarded for a day and night, and
brought over to the Tug River, which sepa
rates West Virginia and Kentucky.
"About fifty feet from the river Carpenter
tied them to a paw-paw bush and hung a lan
tern over their heads. Bad Anse Hatfield theft
said to them : 'Boys, if you have any peace to
make with your Maker you had better make
it .' Talbot and Randolph began prayinjr, but ;
Farmer did not. Hontsver.before the hoys had
time to finish their prayers John Hatfield
shot Farmer dead. Anse then gave the
order to fire, and shot as he gave the word,
killing Talbot, and then emptying the
contents of his revolver into the
dead bod v. Alexander Masser fired
and killed Randolph McCoy. The others fol
lowed suit, and all tho bodies were riddled
with bullets. After the boys were killed Wall
Hatfield administered an oath to all of Us,
binding us to take the life of the first who
divulged the name of any who were along."
Captain Hatfield said that he and Tom
Wallace shot Jeff McCoy after he had es
caped from them. The prisoner also av
the particulars of the brutal murder of Alla
phare and Calvin McCoy, in which he took:
part. Nine of the Hatfield faction, on a
Sunday night in January, 1888, crossed
the river into Kentucky under
the command of Jim Vance. They sur
rounded the McCov homestead, fired the
house, and killed the girl as she stood in tho .
door begging for her life. Cap and Jonce
Hatfield both asserted thatihey killed Calvin
McCoy, and bragged about i. . . . i
The World's Conference of Mormons. ,
The World's Conference of Latter Day,
Saints, which has been held at St. Joseph,
Mo., was the largest assembly of Mormon
representatives ever held in this country. ;
The preliminary proceedings were attended
by over 500 delegates. No regular proceed-,
ings were held on the first day but informal
gatherings duwussed various matters,
to be considered during the week.
There are over 1000 of them in
the city, England having a stronger repre
entation than any other foreign country ex
cept Canada. Australia had eight repre
sentatives. Much interest is manifested in
the affairs of the Mormon Church in Utah.
The Statehood claims of the Territory will
be put in shape for presentation to Congress
at Washington. A communication from too
Moraion (reneral Conference in session at
Salt Lake arrived by muil and was read.
The report of the church recorder shows
that there are over lift, 000 members of the
church, a gain of 14S5 in the last year.
There were llfiS removals aud oxpulsious.
Elder G. T. Griffith reported that mission
aries m Virginia had met vigorous opposi
tion, and had been threatened with personal
violence on account of the erroneous belief !
that the Latter Day Saints were polygamlsta.
How Natives Harrassed Stanley. I
Henry M. Stanley's letter to tho Royal Geo
graphical Society was read at a meeting of!
that body in London. The letter consists,
mainly of a repetition of what has already
been published. He describes at length the.
various devices by which the natives)
endeavored to prevent the advance of the er.
pedition. One of them was to dig shallow ;
pits across the path of the column and fill,
them with skewers, which were deftly cor-,
ered with leaves.
The skewers pierced the feet of Stanley
men, inflicting wounds that in many cases
developed into gangrenous sores. The men,
who were lamed in this manner were sel-j
dom of further service.
Mr. Stanley calls the natives "cunning!
rogues," and says that for purposes of er-J
tortion they always pretenoea wiat me coun-i
try was suffering from a famine, j
The "friendlies," be says, withheld i
information, but the natives who.
were captured by the expedition im-j
parted all they knew. Mr. Stanley belie veal
that the lake he discovered in 1876 belong la
the Congo. ,
A Town in Ashes. . . j.
Almost the entire town; of Wmftlifield, in
Johnston County, N. C, was consumed by
fire. The only buddings which remain stand-)
ing are the County Court House and jail and.
a few dwellings. Every store in the town and.
many dwellings were burned. The fire!
originated about 1 o'clock p. u., and in two!
hours the town was in ashes.
The wind was raging at a terrific rate and
the flames swept over the town like a hurri-'
cane. There was no fire department to figlttf
the flames and the people were powerless
to resist the devouring sweep. The
total loss Is estimated at upward oC
:1 00,000. Much of the property was insured.
The fire originated in tho carnage factory of
8. R. J. R. Morgan. Its origin is thought a
have been accidental. ...
Hamburg's Horror.
The body of a boy named Stelnfath wa
found at an early hour in the morning or
a road near Hamburg, Germany. The boy'
throat had been cut and his abdomen
ripped open and his entrails removed. Tb
body was otherwise shockingly mutilated
It had evidently laid in the road throughout!
the night. '
Immediately upon the discovery of thd
murder parties of hussars were lent out to
vniir the cm-round in 7 countrv. One Of thes
parties surprised the murderer, but he sue
ceeded in enecong nis escape.
f A Death Struggle in Mid-Stream.
Larry McDonald and John Schneider, tw
Government employes working on the River
Improvement Commission, quarreled In A
small skiff in the middle of the rlvei
opposite 8t. LouiSj, Mo. The men'
clinched, and a terrible struggle folio wed J
McDonald proved the more powerful, anJ,
flnallv threw Schneider beadlon2 into th
. river. McDonald rowed ashore, and allowtil
j Schneider to drown. n i
V . To,do in the Northwest. I
A Tornado in the Northwest.
r ,
" Word Vina hreti received at Recdna of A,
tornado that struck a settlement on Ixmgi
Lake, Northwest Territory. It mowed ft
Tth tViirtv vitrria wide thrOUCh the bluff
te-nrrcr trees tin bv the roots. Several house
and barns were blown down, and logs werai
rin-riaA Httv taM No casualties are rH
ported. Prairie fires swept a large we oC
land north of Regina.
Queer Railroad Wreck.
A remarkable freight wreck occurred on)
the Cairo Short Lino, two miles from Belle-J
ville, ni., the other morning. A freight train
was running toward Belleville. The trac!
was clear ahead, when suddenly, withoutu
any warning, the road bed began to sink, and)
the engineer and fireman felt themselve1,
rapidly dropping below the surface of thai
surrounding country. They jumpd foej
their lives, and both escaped with m
few bruises. The engine ana train wenui
down a distance of ten feet and a terrifia
wreck foUowed. The cars,engbie and freigb ;
were smashed and destroyed in the earth. Ail
the frizhtened trainmen could recoTtrl
their wita, they learned that the train wa.
, "T;VL ThXd nk from eieht V -
of 100 feet the road had sunk from eight y
ten feet. Two brakemen, who went dor
with the wreck, were seriously nurt.
A French cook in New Y
vised a new dish perfumed
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