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UPWARD AND -ONWARD,
VOL.1.
HERTFORD, PERQUIMANS CO., N. C. MAY 29, 1895.
NO. 18.
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED:
Washington Items '
The Board of Naval .Bureau Chiefs decided
to build the two new battleships with dou
bled Btoried turrets, to place thlrteen-inch
guns.in the lower turrets and eight-inch gun3
in the upper turrets. ;
The Congressional Commission appointed'
to investigate the condition of the surviving
victims of the Ford's Theatre disaster of
June 9, 1893, met at the Capitol. The com
mission has- over one hundred cases to in-.
vostigate. In four cases the sufferers axe
insane. ,
The Secretary of the Interior made a re-,
quisitlon on the Secretary of the Treasury,
for 510,140,000 for the payment of pensions.
Colonel Jadson D. Bingham, Assistant!
Quarter master-General, was placed on the
retired list of the United States Army, hav- -ins
reached the age of sixty-four years. , 1
The President signed the proclamations'.
declaring the Yankton Sioux reservation in;
South Dakota and the Silety reservation lnj
Oregon open to settlement at noon May 21.
During the month of April, 1895, 40,444 im
migrants arrived at the ports of the United
States. !
President Cleveland is deluged by letters ! '
from parents of triplets and quadruplets. j
Great Britain notified the United States j
that it would not observe the regulations re
garding sealing firearms on vessels in Ber
ing Sea.
Admiral Meade declined to answer the in
quiries of the Navy Department regarding
his criticism of the Administration.
Domestic.
KECOBD 07 THE LEAGUE CLUBS.
Clubs. Won.
Pittsburg.. 16
Cincinnati. 16
Chicago. . .16
Boston.. ...12
Cleveland. 12
Thiladel...lO
Per i
I9t. ctl Clubs. Wop. Lost.
7 .696 New York.10 10
, 8 .667 Baltimore ,89
9 .640 St. Louis. .10 15
7 .632 Brooklyn.. 7 13
10 .545 Wash'ng'n. 6 15
10 . 500 Louisville. 5 15
Per
cr.
.500
.471
.400
.350
.286
.250 1
Ex-Recorder Smyth was installed as" Grand I
Pachem of the Tammany Society in New York '
City. - "j
The Confedera'te monument was unveiled j
at Raleigh, N. C, by Stonewall Jackson's
grandchild. I
The United States cruiser Columbia started
from the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Navy Yard on her
trip to Kiel.
Secretary Carlisle made a speech in Cov
ington, Ky., opposing the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and favoring the gold
standard.
The Presbyterian General Assomblyadopt
ed the anti-Briggs report of the Seminaries
Committee in favor of church control of
seminaries by a vote of 432 to 98.
Charles Meister, a teamster at Grant's Pass,
Oregon, threw his wife into a pool of water
and held her head under until she was
drowned.
"Wheat advanced sixteen points and caused
great excitement on the Produce Exchanges
in Chicago and New York City. Crawford &
Valentine, one of the largest firms of grain
brokers in Chicago, assigned. They were
short on wheat. Stevens & Co., commission
brokers in New York City, failed.
At Athens, Ga., a daughter was born to
Mrs. Hoke Smith, wife of the Secretary of
the Interior, where Mrs. Smith is spending
the summer.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison was the
principal guest of honor at the semi-centennial
celebration of the New Jersey Historical
Society at Newark, and was presented with a
sold medal as the centennial President of
the United States. .
Dr. Robert Russell Booth, of New York,
was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian
General Assembly at Pittsburg, Penn., on
the first ballot.
The New Jersey Court of Pardons, by a
vote of six to two, remitted the sentence of
one year's imprisonment imposed on Dennis
McLaughlin, John C. Carr, Nicholas Crusius
and Gottfried Walbaum, the "Big Four" of
the Guttenberg race track.
Jones & Laughlin, operating the extensive
American Iron Works, Pittsburg, Penn.,
nave voluntarily advanced the wages of all
their skilled workmen ten percent. About
4000 men share in the advance.
. The widow of Policeman Christian Otto
as awarded $6500 by a jury at Elizabeth,
"i in a case brought to recover 10,000
from the Suburban Electric Light Companj
for the killing of her husband by electricity
in a pole with which he came in contact.
; Peter Hardeman Burnett, first Governor oi
C alifornia, died in San Francisco, eighty
HHven years old. He was born in Nashville,
renc, of Virginia parentage.
A twenty days' extra session of the Ten
nessee Legislature will be held.'
Warrants were issued for seyenty-foui
isiarurt
members "of the PennsyrvaluV Ig
w auouuov wunout leave. '
The price of wheat in Chicago rose to 705
cents a busheLI
The convention at Salt Lake City. Utah,
called by Governor Rickards, of Montana, to
discuss means to promote the interests of th
silver cause met, after a parade, In thi
Great Mormon: Tabernacle. Over 2000 dele,
gates were present. Governor Rickards pre
sided. - :
t Oae of the powder mills at Schaghticoke,
N. Y., blew up. Chauncey Lohmes was
killed and Charles Clump fatally injured.
Both men were employed in the mill.
An anti-trolley indignation meeting In
Brooklyn, N. Y., was attended by 10.C00 per
sons. .
Three thousand employes of the Pencoyd
Iron Works at West Many hunk. Penn., had
their wages advanced ten per cent.
Foreign Notes.
The British 1 Royal Geographical Society
held a meeting in London to commemorate
the fiftieth anniversary of the departure ot
Sir John Franklin for the Arctic regions. i
General Campos ordered that newspaper
correspondents visiting Cuban insurgent
camps be shot-
Austro-Hungary is to build a $6,000,000 1
Dicei pmui at uronstaar.
Fire destroyed the long wharf, freight
sheds, and coaling pier at Richmond, Nova
Scotia. Government property worth a
quarter of a million dollars was burned.
The French troop3 defeated the ' Hovas at
Sakalave, Madagascar,, killing sixty.
A revolt broke out in the State of Chihua
hua, Mexico.
The famous Tichborne claimant has con
fessed he is plain Arthur Orton.
The pulpits of 200 of the London churches j
will be occupied on June 16 by women, who
will preach a campaign of religion, temper- j
ance, social purity, the abolition of the
opium trade, and opposition to the turf. I
- Japan announced that she would quit .
Korea this year. j
The plan of confederation of New Found- j
land with Canada has been abandoned. j
The American Commissioners of the Nicar-:
agua Canal, arrived at Greytown. J
Considerable I damage was done to the i
crops in Switzerland by frost and snow. j
The Chinese troops stationed at Shan- i
aikwan openly revolted and looted the city, i
The people fled,
Count Goluchowski, formerly Austrian'
Envoy at Bucharest, has been appointed
Premier of Austria-Hungary, to succeed
Count Kalnoky. ,
William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas,
Hamilton, twelfth Duke of Hamilton, died in
Algiers. He was fifty years old.
Northern Formosa is in a state of an
archy, and China wants it turned into a re
public. The insurrection in Cuba is reported to be
spreading rapidly.
BICYCLIST AND RATTLESNAKE.
A Rider Attacked on His Wheel, bat He
Killed tbe Reptile. '
Edward Coates, a bicyclist of Hartford,
Conn., was riding with a companion along
the shore of the lake in Bristol, and saw a
snake coiled in the road in front of him. He
turned out, supposing the snake was an or
dinary black one.
As he came abreast of the snake, which was
darting its head up and down, it made a
spring and fastened its fangs in his bicycle
trousers at the knee. At the same time the
warning whirring sound told Coates that he
had a rattler: to deal with. Then? were
several revolutions of the wheel before he
came to a 6topj the snake keeping a vice-like
grip and curling itself around the bicyelist's
' leg. f
Coates seized a stick and beat the head of
the snake free from his trousers, and with
his hand wrenched the coils from around his
leg. The snake sank its frangs time and
again into the stick and made repeated
jumps at Coates. After fifteen minutes it
was killed.
The snake measured four feet eight inches
in length. It had fourteen rattles, and it
was at least two inches in diameter.
A Rear-End Trolley-Car Collision.
A rear-end trolley-car collision occurred in
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, injuring seven peo
ple seriously and bruising and frightening
thirty or forty more. " Two care were run
ning close together, and were loaded with
people bound for Clmer. Park when the ac
cident happened.
INCOME Til LAW fflJD
Decree of the United States Suprenfe
Court on the Measure
SHIRAS CHANGES HIS VOTE.
The Vote Stood Five to Four Chief Jus
tice Fuller and Justices Field, Gray,
Brewer, and Sbiras Against, Justices
Harlan, White, Jackson and Brown
For -The Court's Conclusions.
declared uncon-
United State Su
Tne income tax law. w;
stituional in tQto by tb
preme Court at Washingt
The vote of the Court resulted five against
the constitutionality of the law to four for
the law. Those against the law were Chief
Justice Fuller and Justices Field, Gray,
Brewer and Shiras.
For the law Justices Harlan, White, Brown
and Jackson.!
Chief Justice Fuller read the decision for
the Court. Justices Harlan, Jackson and
Brown read dissenting opinions.
The conclusions of the Court were as
follows:
"(1.) We adhere to the opinion, already
announced, that taxes on real estate being
undlsputably direct taxes, taxes on the rents
or income of real estate are equally direct
taxes.
"(2.) We are of the opinion that taxes on
personal property or on the income of per
sonal property are likewise direct taxes.
"(3.) The tax imposed by sections 27 to 37.
inclusive, of the act of 1894, so. far as it falls
on the income of real estate and on personal
property, being a direct tax within the
meaning of the constitution, and therefore
unconstitutional and void, because hot up-'
portioned according to representation, all
those eections, constituting one entire
scheme of taxation, are necessarily invalid.
"The decrees hereinbefore entered in this
Court will be vacated. The decrees below
will be reversed and the cases remanded,
with instructions to grant the relief prayed.'
Sections 27 to 87 of the tariff act of 1894,
referred to in the conclusions of the Court
in the opinions, are all that section of the
act relating to the income tax, so that the
entire tax law is declared void specifically.
. The chamber of the Court was crowded
for quite a time before the Court convened,
at noon. Those present included many at
torneys and several members of Congress.
The general impression among them was
that the decision would bead verse tb the law
as an entirety,' and this was increased by a
rumor which was 'current after the Court
convened to the effect that at the conference
which occurred at ten o'clock in the morning
a definite conclusion had been reached and
that Justice Shiras, concerning whose
attitude there had been some doubt,
had cast his vote against the constitu
tionality of the law on all points. The con
sultation continued until a few minutes be
fore twelve, all the members of the Court
being present, including" Justice Jackson.
The tact that Justice Jackson was in the city
and that he had participated in the consul
tation did not become generally known until
a few minutes before the Court came in. He
ocoupied his seat with the other members of
the Court, making a full bench present at
the delivery of the opinion, a3 there was at
the hearing.
Chief Justice Fuller delivered the main
opinion of the Court, which consisted of
about 7000 words.
Money Pafd to Be Refunded.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller says
that under Section 3220 of the Revised Stat
utes all the money paid in on account of the
income, tax will be refunded to the payees
by the Treasury Department without delay.
Acting under this section internal revenue
taxes wrongfully collected are daily refund
ed by his office, and the same section will be
taken as to repaying the income tax collect
ed. It amounts to only $73,000.
Girls Mend the Roads.
Twenty pretty bicycle girls of East Lynn,
Conn., disgusted by the disgraceful condi
tion of the public roads in those parts, de
termined to institute a radical reform.
They turned out in full force, armed with
picks, snovels and rollers, and repaired the
worst of the roads.
When the bloomered beauties finished
their week'a work they pointed with pride to
'several miles of road which they had made
fit for wheeling.
MEADE REPRIMANDED.
lbe Rear Admiral Retired From the Ser-
vice by the President.
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Bear Admiral Meade has been placed on
the retired list with a reprimand for criti
cising the Administration. The criti
cism occurred In an interview with
Admiral Meade published ,in a New
York paper. In answer to a request of the
Navy Department, Admiral Meade refused to
deny or arnnn the correctness of the inter
view. Secretary Herbert recommended
the retirement and the President endorsed
thereon as follows:
"Executive MaxsIch, May 20, 1895.
"The within recommendatiou is approved
and Bear Admiral Richard W. Meade is here-
HEAB ADMIEAL MEADE.
by retired from active service pursuant ta
Section 1443 of the Revised Statutes.
The President regrets exceedingly that th
long active service of this officer, so brilliant;
in its early stages and so often marked by;
honorable incidents, should at its close be'
tarnished by conduct at variance with a
commendable career and Inconsistent with1
the example which an officer of his high
rank should furnish of subordination and
submission to j. the restraints of wholesome
fliscipline and manifest propriety.
j "Gboveb ClEVKUUiT).'
ADMIRAL ALMY DEAD.
His Brilliant Naval Career Began Sixty
six Years Ago. '
Admiral John J. Almy, of the United States
Navy, retired, ied at his residence in Wash
ington after a long illness. He leaves a
widow and five grown up children three
sons and two jdaughters. He was born in
Newport, R. L,1 in 1814. He entered the navy,
in mas ana served almost lorty-eignt years,'
retiring in July, 1877. He w present at the
surrender of Walker and his filibusters and
was at the siege of Vera Cruz and the, cap-
ture of Tuxpam during the Mexican War.
He was commander at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard in 1861 and. 1862.
During his service as Commander he had j
charge successively of the gunboats South!
Carolina, Connecticut and Juniata. While (
in command of the Connecticut he captured!
four noted blockade runners with valuable!
cargoes and chased four others to the shore!
and destroyed them.
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BORN ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
Ten-Found Youngster Reaches the Worlds
by Way of Pike's Peak. '
Dr. Christopher, of Colorado Springs, was
conveyed by a special train to the summit of
Pike's Peak, Colorado, the occasion being
the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Tag-
gart. Mr. Taggart is foreman of the Mani
tou and Pike's j Peak Cog Road, and for a
month past has lived in a section-house lo-j
cated a mile and a half above timber line, at!
an altitude of 12.000 feet above the sea. This;
is the first recorded birth at so great an ele
vation in the Rocky. Mountains, and prob
ably on this continent. The youngster
weighs ten ptfuhds and has evidently come
to fctay. The train boys have named himj
Pike's Peak Taggart.
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