V
ET P WAR D AND ONWARD.
VOL. 1.
HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO-, N. C. MAY 8, 1895.
NO- 15.
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INSWAP.
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- THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
f-vS. TTaslilnton Items.
Secretary Herbert -will probably go to Kiel
; Tumi nr one. o f the United States men-of-
Lr nnri witnesa the naval demonstration In
tnor of the opening of the canal.
ah the rn;tinrrs. on account of which the
sneers of the Benjamin At ha and Iiling-
orth Company, 01 jsewarjr, were inuicieu
r conspiring to defraud the Government
Lst August, have been accepted by the Navy
lepartment after a reinspection.
Mr. Kurino, the Japanese Minister, received
telegram from the Emperor 'of Japan nn
ouncing that the decoration of the second
lass of the Order of the Rising Sun had
ifeu conferred upon him.
The President received the committee o4f
he National Schutzenbund, which 'came
rnm New York to Invite him to attend their
f lebr:ition; in July. In reply he said that
if r.TOCPTlt be, wm unable to sav whether or
lot he could attend, but he promised to con-
ider tne maiier.
rv-PAsfTrLster-ftencral EisselJ. accom
panied by Mrs. Bissell and little Miss Mar-
ruerite left Washington lor Jiunaio, wnere
dr. Bissell will resume his law practice. All
he Assistant Postmaster-Generals and other
jfueials of the Postoffice Department met
dm at the station to say farewell.
1 Snnnr Fnrioue Durmv do. Lome, who suc-
-eeds Senor Muraga as Spanish Minister to
he United States, has arrived from Havana.
England's latest move in Nicaragua was
liseussed by the President ,.and Secretary
3resham. '
rrh TmII tet of Thipf Justice Puller's
t pinion "on tlw income tax was -made public.
31. II. Kohlsaat, the new owner of the
hicago Times-Herald, offered Mr. Eckels,
jtho Controller of the Currency, 610,000 a
Hear to become-financial editor of that paper,
ho declined. . '
Mathew Calloway, the colored man who
iir('i-o.i Jim WjiI tors, colored, at Santa Fe
in lar-Mn)y, was hanged at Columbia, Term.
ie coiifcssoed- on tne seauoid.
f
Domestic.
rrOHD Oi THE IiEAdjE CLT731.
Per
c!ki')s.- Von. Lost. rt.
2 .ITri
CG7
rittshurg.. 7
Haiti more.' 4
Cleveland . 5
Cincinnati. 5
Now York. 3
Brooklyn.. 3
2
4
3
3
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CluV. Won. Lt. o-.
Boston..... 3 3 .1300
Wash'ns'n. 3
.5.58;St. Louis... 3
,500,LoXiisvillr
roo
414
.833
.333
OOiPhiladel. .. 2
C.-itiimlms Pholnfi shot and killed his half-
brother, Henry Thelps, near Bowling Green,
Ky., because he would not swear falsely for
him.
The sixth colored person was lynched in
Butler County, Alabama, for the murder of
voung Watts Murphy. , Sheriff Eargatnes
luuad his body hanging to a tree. His name
is r.'.t kiown.
There was a big raise in the price of wheat,
1 . Km vod to be due to a corner managed by
I'. 1 Armour in Chicago.
E nil Furrer and. John Not :or were burned
t Kith in r.ue of the three barns owned by
John.Guyer, a farmer. nearMilford, Conn.
" At Dubuque, Iowa, Paying Teller Maurice
Drown, of the Iowa Trust and Savings Bank,
shot and seriously wounded Leonard Lees
in the" bank, after Lees had made an attempt
to rob the institution of the day's funds.
F.Y-Sr.'vkor Crisn. of Georcia. talked on
thu political situation at Atlanta. He de
clares for silver and said frea coinage would
be the. one issue" of the next campaign. Ha
wants a silver platform an 1 a Western man
with a military record as a Presidential ean
ui l;it.'. "
Oliver Curtis Terry, the train robber, who
escaped from the nsvlum for insane criminals
at Matteawan, N. Y., and who had been iu
th" .N.nnty jail in- Jersey City, N. J., for
li'-a-ly two weeks, was taken back to Matteai
' The Merchants' National Bank, of Pome,
Gu., capital C-'iCvlJOO. closed its doors.
Comptroller Eckels pla.-ed a bank examiner
ia oharge.
The United giatcs cruiser?; New York and
C bunbia returned to the Port of Xaw York
after a cruise in West ' Indian and. South
American waters. i
Professor J. W. Belli was killed at LeV
an on. Ind., while making his first ascension
ia a mammoth balloon that ho had recently
Unisheil. "
The bi brick warehouse o Sanders t
Blackwood, at Charlotte, N. C. was de
Mr .ve.l bv lire. Several adjoining buildings
vf re 'crushed in bv falling walb. Tne loss
ii 125.000.
The store of Noah nertzler at Tort, Royal,
P- au., was robbed of stocks, bonds and cash
-.nuunting to about 635,000. The safe was
1 nvn open.
a nephew of Governor Mitchell, was shot and
killed by Perry Hand. Mrs. Hand had de
serted her husband for Mitchell
Robert Ford has been hanged at Nashville,
Tenn. He killed Jerry Brown in a quarrel
over a game of cards la3t October. Both men
were colored.
Coxswain John Johnson was killed at San
Diego, Cal., on the new United States cruiser
Olympia by an accident to a five-Inch rapid
fire gun. ,
Morris Hopkins, colored, was hanged at
Richmond, Va., for the murder of H, S. Par
sons, his employer, whom he killed with a
club.
The defalcation of Paul Sehulz, land agenr
of the Northern Tacifle Railroad at Tacoina,
Wa3h.f Is now estimated at 8500,000.
The New York City Police Reorganization
bill was beaten in the Senate at Albany by a
tie vote, three Republicans joining the Demo
crats in opposition to it.
The Pennsylvania House at Harrlsburg
passed the "Greater Pittsburg" bill, and also
the bills known as the second and third
Greater Pittsburg" bill3 by decisive ma
jorities. The defalcations of Cashier Risley, of the
Willimantic (Conn.) National Bank, amount
to $125,000.' The city was in a state of con
fcternation over the discovery, and a' run on a
local savings institution tooic piace.
George Payne, aged sixty-four years, an
old and respected business man of Rome,
committed suicide by cutting his throat with
a razor. He hao; Deen memaiiy aerangtu ivi
several days. ;
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt de
cided to accent one of the Police Commis
sionerships of the city of New York tendered
to him by Mayor Strong. ,
Julia Gross, a s.xteen-year-oid girl, who
wasdured away by a young man from her .
home in New Y6rk City, and returned two
day3 after, was found lying dead in the yard
of her home. She had committed suicide
through remorse.
Edward B. Shaw j of Newbury port, was
nominated for State Treasurer ami Reeiver
ftPTinwi bv tha Itenublicans of the Massa
chusetts Legislature. The nomination was
tantamount to election. , .
- Salvatore Cavaliere, an Italian shoemaker,
is in the Long Branch (N. J.) jail charged
with a score of burglaries, committed during
the last five vears. Three houses are said
to have been'built by him with stolen lum
ber. He had enough stolen gooaa on hand
to stock a store.
Thomas S. Borden, agent and treasurer of
the Metacomet and Auawan Mills, has tied
from Fall River, Mass. He is short ia his
-accounts to the extent of $6000.
Louisville's Board of Trade authorized the
appointment of delegates to the Memphis
Sound Money Convention. -
A CALAMITY I MAM
Over a Hundred
. a Bursted
Persons Drowned by
Reservoir.
LOSS ESTIMATED AT $10,000,000.
TIic Il!?aster Cccnrrfed at Kouzzy and
Lar?e Tract of Co
.-Half a Dozen
Pearcliing for the
Swept Away and
mtrr Was Inundated
Villages J5cfTe red-
Dead Farm Houses
;tlie Crors Knined.
The reservoir on th dvke of the canal at
Bouzzy. . near Epina1
sweeping aw. ay many!
Franc?, gave way,
houses with their in
mates. -The flood qttickly subsided, and a
search for he bodies of the dead was im
mediately made.
The disaster occurred at five o'clock a. to.
The rush of water through the villages was
bo sudden that there was hardly any chance
to escape, and many persons were drowned
in their beds. The humber of deatns ex
ceeded 130.
The Bouzz" reservoir fed tho southern
hrnnoh of t.h.p "Eastpm Canal. Th water fol
lowed the vailev of thje Aviere. The sudden
owrnUnn of tiiA pnn'al l.nrst its banks, and
the water roured frjm i trover six miles of
conntrv until the channel was emrjty.
The tnwent. hemmed in by .hish hills,
rushed down the vallfy lik a bore, sweens
the villages mentioned, and after a course of
tn miles emptying' into tho Moselle at
Nnexv and Chate.1. '
2Crerv.bou.se at Bo'i7v tt demolished:
anl'verv few remain j at Le s Foi'sces. where
tnero are liUJ muaouani. ai v-KLi.cy
twertv-three nersous
building was destrov;
thf population num'i
NEW MONEY ORDERS.
A New Form Xike a Dank Draft Mere
after in Uo Used.
The Post offlce authorities at. Washington
have for some time been dissatisfied with the
form of money order now used,which was
designed a yeai ago, and put in use with tho
beginning of the present fiscal year. It is
criticised on account of the size, which adds
a good deal of unnecessary bulktothe mails,
aud besides this objection the design is not
altogether i -leasing. For several weeks ef
forts have becniade to fashion a blank that
would combine the requisite characteristics.
It is intended to secure a handsome form if
possible. The present blank has been severe
ly criticised on this score.
The form to be next introduced will be un
like all its predeee,ssors in shape, resem
bling a bant draft rather than a sheet of
foolscap. The present scheme of tearing off
the end so a3 to leave the amount of the
order fixed in the figures torn off at the
stub will be retained. While it is some
Hmps ' sMI that there is dancer of these
i notched stubs being torn olf and the amount
of the order changed or . vmaxeti, iian is
something that has yet to occur for the
first time to the knowledge of anyone con
nected with the money order office. This
feature will be retained for the security it
afTords against forgery or alteration, and
the new blank will be instead of an up
right note form, : an elongated slip like a
bank draft, which by two folds can be put
in a letter just as a check or draft would be,
and add very little to its weight or bulk. The
new form will doubtless be ready for use
with the beginning of the new postal year.
VextTw. C. T. V. Convention.
October ISch has been fixed for the dab
of the next National Convention ol the Yf
C. T. U. . .
wera drowned. Every
?d a-Darmeulle?, where
er CO?.
NV-.t-nrlthstAndinGr tho fact that Nonexv is
ten miles from the dam. many of the inhabi
tants of that p.laea ad not time to reach the
upper portions of thtHr dwellings before the
torrent was upon .hem. Many farmers
throughout the valley ar ruined, and a larare
number of families are withovt food or clothes.
, Thf lamasp caused by the flood is estimate!
a'c U0.O'0.OO0. I'
The Bouzzy reservoir had a canacdy of
T.nnO.OOO cubic metres. The torrent carried
off bodiiv some of the houses in the villages
of Boiizzv. DarnieuiSes. Uxegney ani3 Dom
evres. aid swampei many other?, besides
demolishing walls', hridee?. road a. cror.s and
farm buildir.srs. A large tart of the valley
little more than a morasr. with timbers ani
unrooted tree? protruding from the rami. :
Much damasft was! don- to the villages at
some distance from jthe dim . As the flood
swept down, the valley it gathered an in
mense quantity of limbers aud tree trunk51,
which were thrown gainst the buil'lings in
th lowpr neighborhoods.
Part of the Bouzzy . taven was found on
(he bank of the Moselle, eleven miles dis
tant. Th exact oause of the break is not
known. Some think the dofect was in the
plan of the structure, which was vertical.
Others assert' that the dam. though origin
allv strong had beenj cracked fox- years.
The little Aviere Ijn-ooV. which ordinarily
Is but seven fpt wide, has been converted
into a lake a mile and a half broad. Soldiers
and workingmen from tho Department of
Roads areburving ckttfe andsherasramdly
as possible to prevent disease. Hundreds of
carcasses were put lindergrour-?.
Tho masonry on the bouzzy oam w?.i t,.tli
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
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Emperor VnUiam's latest fad is telegraphy.
J. M. Barrie. (the Scotch novelist, was a
newspaper man. ,
Tho life of thd Prince of Wales is said to
be insured for $16,250,000. ,
It is estimated that Du Maurier has mada
about $25,000 with bis Trilby."
.Tftmsa A: Oarfield is a candidate for the
same seat in the Ohio Senate once filled by
his father. ! .
Gladstone has imnounced that he cannot
undertake to an$wer or even read any letters
that may be addressed to him.
Kenneth Mackay, known in Australia a?
"the bush poet' has been sent to the New
South Wales Parliament by his admirers.
Hall Caine.the author of "The Manxman,"
Is said to write with such microscopic fine
ness that ho i3 able to put tOO words on one
sheet of note paper. .
General Dnehpsne. who has sailed to take
command of the French forces in Madagas
car, is flrty-eighi years old and has served in
Africa, Siam and in the war with Germany.
Thomas A. Edison is very fond of children.
He delights to show them through his work
shops and to mystify them with nis magic.
To them he is the real wizard he is often
called. ' .
- Prince Bismarck recentlysaid to an Ameri
can who had the pleasure of an interview
with him that one of his greatest regrets was
that he had never had'an opportunity to visit
this, country, j
Major Calhoun,' the editor of the Standard,
tho new Boston daily, is the author of
"Marching nrougn ueorgia. lie was - an
oSlcer in General Sherman's army, and lost,
a leer in battie. I
"Mothinc -ia L-nown in London of tho report
in nimnlrttion tn the United States that the
Prince of Wales will visit Newport, B. I., in
the autumn in order to oe present at me races
for the America s cup. ,
William Henry Hurlbert is living without
disguise at Borne with his wife, though tho
British Government maintains the fiction of
looking for hinjv and of being entirely ignor
ant of his whereabouts.
King Humbert can broil a steak, grill a
chop and do plain cooking just as well as h&
can run with the machine, couple up hose or
pump at a fire.J Indeed, his Majesty of Italy
is a man of many talents. : ;
The new Spanish premier, Senor Canova,
is said to be the homeliest man and the most
sarcastic orator in Madrid. The' Senor was
the champion of the abolition, of slavery in
Spain and its dependencies. . j .
By the recent succession of Bevl W. E. Pon
sonby to the earldom of Bessborough four
clergymen are now British peers. The others
are the Marquis of Normandy, tho Earl of
Scarsdale and Lord Piunkett, the Archbishop
of Dublin. j '
- Bishop Baisley, who was an intensely popu
lar Danish theologian, has just died at the.
age of ninety, at Ribe, in Southern Jutland.
It is said that pne of his publications went
through ICO editiori, and that each edition
numbered 10,000 copies. i : -
Rev. Dr. William II. Furness, the oldest
living graduate of Harvard University, ha$
iiict pRlftbratod his ninetv-third birthdav.
! Dr. Furness, who is a Unitarian minister, has
often oeen reterrea to as ine mo3c enecuvt
reader of the Bible before an audience in tha
world. 4 ' t- ,
The youngest State Treasurer ever selected
to fill so responsible a position in the Unitod
States isLon T. Stevens, of Missouri, who
had not yet reached his thirtieth year when
he was appointed, seven years ago, touc
eacd his defaulting predeeesso ia offlce at
Jefferson uty .
fn 1870 and finished
at thel.wise. ' It ,wa
in 1851. It wasenc:tt'
pr,ofl in laaa The dam was 550 yar'ts ionT,
Pixty-six feet high, nd 1lo same thickness
i -bulU against vortical
rock and on sandstone.
BIG COLD NUGGET F0UN3.
'oriU Carolina SuSTering From an Out
break Qf 3Iinins Tever.
Gold miners from the West are arriving in
the Piedmont section of North Carolina, an i
there is an outbreak of mining fever. Th9
discovery of a pure nugget weighing eigh:
pounds and five ounces in Stanley County
has increased interest in mining. Fou?
hundred Western miners are expected withia
sixty days. Western men purchase! tht
McAmetry mine recently. Inventor Edisov
has bought a mine ,near Charlotte, at whic'j
he expects to develop" a new process for ths
treatment of North Carolina gold ores.
E!cclrl C.irs Sto;ipel by Eels.
I
At New Lohlon, Caa., th m rgan ol
St. James's Episcopal Church was stopped
twice by eels in forty-eight hours The
eketric street cars over tke city were obliged
to suspen I running, as the. power did not
work on ace )Unt of . AU the trouble is
caused bv these lish getting into the supply
pipes and' shotting- cfx tho water us?i in
etam.boiiersL'-
l'opuiatlon of New York City.
The results of the police census of Now
York City show a total population of 1,849,
8G6. The number of male? is 925.310; and tho
number of females 024,556, so that the two
sexes are almost equa'ly representel. The
work of collecting the figures occupied tho
Xolicemen specially assigned to the duty for
several weeks.