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T "THE GREATEST GOOD TO THE GREATEST NUMBER.'5 L xxiil NO. 42. ELIZABETH CITY, N.C., FRIDAY, MARCUS, 1895. , . ; V - ; ' - - ' - ' . ' t . . "j , J"-"':'''". ' - - 1 - " - . , Ofnciai Papei or TH - hoUNTIES OF & jaruY Famiea, Paspotani aitd or ZABETH . CITY. & CKEECY, Owners. B. CREECY, Edlto. IPTION ONE YEAR. $1.00 Of'ESSIOXAL CARDS. ICKKtCY, orney - at - Law, rf, - Llixabeik City, If. O. ,ount, rney-at-Law. IERTFORD. N. SKINNER, Vneys-at-Law, rt a TITTTT flTTTT HT JliOX"A"' . V AUG HAN, TTORNEY AT LAW, ELIZABETH CITY, N. a ons faithfully mde. DEN. C. 8. "VANH m & VANN, V IT 0 Ii N E Y 8-A T-L A W, EDENTON N. C. e in Pasquotanlr, Perquimans, Gates, Hertford, "Washington ell counties, . and in Supreme the State. 0 OK DON, rney-at-Law, TUCK, C. H., N. C. KfTION A SPECIALTY. 1 s In Stats and Federal Courts EREBEE. irney- at - Law", MDEX G. n., N. O. i-'tlons a specialty. 3 O. 'SKINNER, rney-at-Law, HERTFORD. N. O. B. SW INDELL, Dentist, St.. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C WHITE, D. D. S., ZABETH CITY. Ni C. 'is professional services to th all the branches of Dbxtistrt tand at ofllce at all times. e in Kramer Bloelr. on t?n ween 1'oindexter and Water. taetb Iron Works. W. PETTIT, Proprietor. m Water 8L, SORFOLX, VA. MAJTCFACTtTKEB OF ines, Boilers, pngs and Castings. tad Uni Supplies at lows rates Jrkmea teat out .a applioatioa f feUI . fSTABLIBHKD 1S79 P. H. ZEIGLER, t JOHN E. ZSJOLJL) Pal r n all Kinds of pertake rs Supplies, fchsapwttothebwt. All telegrams promptly attend-d to. S AND COOLING BOARDS !jed. The finest Hearse ia this e c.!?0?4' Walnat clotn-covered L" l r - -imi, Aii uie oia . - . - " f 111 wds of Cabinet Work. . HOTELS. United States Hotel, GATES VI LLC N. Q. JSSSl? Urw taw,n ball fwpects. The servants are attentive sad the 1. J 1 "uPPliel with the beat the market afforda. Term, reasonable. LW-R: HAYES, PrcpH'er Bay .t View 9 House, EDENTON, N. C. tfew, . Cfeanlj, . Attenttv . Servant. Near the Court House. Columbia Hotel, COLUMBIA, Tyrrefl Co. F;.F. JONES, - Proprietor "Qood servant?, good robmo, good table. Ample stabies and shelters. Thf patronage of the pub ic solicited and satisfaction assured. . THE OLD CAPT. WALKER HOU3I, TRANQUIL HOUSE, MANTEO, N. C. K. V. EVANS. - Proprietor. First-class In erery part!c!ftr. Table evy piled with erery delicacy. Flah, Oysten ai Game in abundance in Reaaon. "the brown house." ' ' i FAIRFIELD, - N. C. S. B. SADLER, Prcprlelor. Tablo supplied with the b8t the market affords. Noat and conttortible rooms. Attentive servants. Drummers sent to any art y of. county. Ita'es reasonable' and pu lie atronae solicited. SIMMONS HOTEL, CnrriiiEt C. H., N. C Terms: nOc. per meal or $1.75 per day, including lodging. Tho patronage of the public solicited. CSSatisfactiou assured. J. W. BRABBLE, . PROPRIETOR. t COMPOUND. A recent discovery by an old physician. Successfully used monthly by thousands of Za .dies. s the only perfectly saf a and reliable medicine discov ered. Beware of unprincipled rimircrlfita whn nfTr- Infftrior medicines in place of this. A sk for Cook's Cottos I'.oot Compound, take no substitute, or inclose SI and 6 cents in postage in letter, and we will send, sealed, by return mail, l ull sealed particulars in plain envelope, to ladles only. 2 stamps. Address Pond Lily Company, Ifx 3 Usher Ulock, Detroit. Mich. Bold in Elizabeth City aril every where by all druggists. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. The two main business b acks of K'ngs. ton, Notth Carolina, were burned ; loas 8225,003. A passenger train on the Santa Fo Itoad was wrecked near Pit'sburg, Kansas, and eigjht pnsssengers were seriously injured. According; to a disj ntcii from Houston, Texas, cat lt-mJn e3tlmate th' ir losses in consequence of tLo blizz trd at over 25 rer cerit ' 8y the explosion of a boiler in Jncob 'Wiiltz's taw mill, near Bouth Terry. Ohio. Woj tz and his s:n Williaaa wee killed anl thojbuiid ng ufeckeJ. The City Hall in Brooklyn whs damaged by lire to the extent of $4),000. The toner was destroyed, the top floor badly damaged auj the building flooded w.lh water. ; Advice receiveJ at Albuquerque, New Mexico, from the scne of the mine exiio ,oA at Cerrillos j.iee the number of dead posiuvoly at 25. Oae.man is s : ill misti ig. Two convicts and 23 mulas were smoth ered to death in llock Slope shaft No. 1, at the rralt Mino, A'a. The lire in the miues is bilievei to have been ol incendiary or. iin. ; : ' Thuee flreni3n were injured, two probably fa'.a ly, in K chester, N. Y., at a fire in the mil's of the R. T. French Company, manu-.'ai.-urers of spices and bakin r powder. The loss on build n r and s ock is 13.005. There was a co Ii-ion on the Atehisoa, 'J opeka and S iiita Fa Kailroad near Gur h riPy Oklahoma TerritoriP, "between a pass'en pof and live stock tr lia. Charles TJppleby, the freight eni;ieLr, was kl led and tw-nty others were injure I, two fatally. Alfked Hickhofk accidentally shot and fata iy wounded Burt Habreli, aged 18 years, in a Coicigo place o" amuse neat. Ii ekhoff is a fancy marksman, and Habreli was em ployed to. hold ylasi balls in bis band. While Hub o i wa3 assuming his p sition It ckhofl's rifle was prematurely diicharged, the bullet striking Habreli in the abdomen. . Atel'gam from Hennessy, Ok la., fays '.hat an appeal for all ha beea issued by setters in the Strip. "Hundre is of famili s are abs lutely starving, . ea..ing practically pra rle dog a and horses. The suffering 1 an paralleled. .-Cattle have teen dying ia iroves as a tesult of the unprecedented 'not lher3 whiea vii.teJ both Territories and Texas within the past few weeks." mtin t Blatkera. Are 70a disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering and crying with pain of cutting teethf If eo, eend at nee and get a bottle of MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYKUP, fob Child si if Txrrn nra. Its yalue Is incalculable. It will re lie v. the pool little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistare. about it curing dysentary and diarrhcaa,reff ulatea the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, reduces inflamation, and gives tone and energy to the whoie system. Mrs. WnrsLow's Soothijto Stbuf roa CHrLDBKW Tkkthinq is pleasant to the taste.and is the prescription of cne of the oldest and best female nurses and physicians In the United State, and is for sale by all druggist throughout tb world. ITioe S5 nmaVi a bot:i Li Hung Chang has bvn recelvei three limes in audi nca by the Emperor of China, who tieaied hfm gfrtcionsly, nnl the viceroy his aepted the mlssioa to Jipan In. '"dor o negotiate for feace. ooksCottonRoo CHUB. A Romance of West Virffinia. BY DAVID L0WRY. CHAPTER XIX. A STARTLING CHAKGK. All who had heard of the missing bridegroom were anxious to see DaD Bash. People camo to the Corn nr. from all Quarters to see the man who wa3 held captive by the counterfeiters. They would talk to Eli Potts or lifs wife: if they wore so fortunate a tob) on speak ing terms with Hank Dawson they niada no delay, but rode up to his door, dis mount. -d, entered the house, and con gratulated the man who was well out ol the "clutches of that gang." Chub Dawson, now for the first time known throughout tho State as Miss Hello Dawson, as th3 newspaper corre spondents describci her. was invariably sought out, complimented h'ghly, ad mired, and wearied with hand-shaking. "Such a fuss about nothing," said Chub one day, aa sho sat down beside her father. "Well, yes just what I was thinking myself. " His daughter looked at him ia sur prise. "I've "b3ut made up my mind, as we'vo found Dan here, that tho weddin' may as well go on now I'm tired seein' so many foiks hitchin' up hyar, 'n never a one wanting a shoe for their horso. I'm getting out of practice If they'vo made up their minds to call well, let ua give 'em all a .good excuse I guess wo may as well send out word to the folks to morrow. I can't stand three days more of, this crowd. Let 'cm all come together; or else spread themf elves aloug more over the year " There was a quizzical smile on his face as Hank Daweon said this. Dan Hash did not speak. Chub was on tho point of replying, but her father put out a hand. "S03 here, Chub. I reckon I'll man age this time. You go to work and nurse Dan up to his old color. That arm o' his a. n't any too comfortable but them doctors isn't to blame. It's coming on right well considering they had to set it up that way. It won't to in the road of the dancers. And ho doesn't dance with his arm anyhow." ".No," said Dan. "And I'm not likely to dance much with my feet for a few Uays." I "Well, I'm in dead airnest, Chub. Let's get through with all this fussin'. If we'll just give the word out that all them that was invited before aro invited again, I reckon that'll be about all that's necessary." 1 "Oh, no, dad," said Chub. "What c!se is there?" "You'll have to send and have just the same things you got before for the sup per aud the music. " "To be suro to te sure." "Aud that will require time to give them notice, and to get tho things here." "I am reckoning all that, too," said her father. "I d like to have the Monks in prison," said C hub'. "They're in jai .. That's good enough, ain't if.' They're not likely to bother any one for a spell, I reckon. Least ways, I ain't afeard of them catching hold of Dau again soon." As Hank was in earnest, no more was said. There was really no objection to h'.s pro.cct. Tho interrupted we iding, the lovers agreed, shoilld Do celebratjd at the ca liest day possible. An ob;o-tion was made however from an unexpected quarter. A man came up the road slowly at that moment, dis mounted leisurly aud approached tho house. ' "It's Tom Walker, the sheriff," said Hank Dawson. "What's he after now, I'd like to know." The sheriff approached the group on the porch, and was cordially welcomed by the blacksmith. "Mighty line weather, Mr. Walker. Have you had jour supper?" "Thanks, yes." The sheriff looked at Dan Bash and Chub curiously. He made a sign to tho blacksmith, which Hank Dawson did not compreheud on the instant "How's the counterfeiting gang, sher iff. AH in the same row of cells? If they aro, they'll get out. 'Taint safo to trust that crowd, sheriff." "We ain't trusting them, Mr. Dawson. " He made another sign, which Hank Dawson understood. But it did not suit his notions. He was resolved tho sheriff should say what he had to say, then and there. "Well sheriff, if you've got any partic ular business with me speak out. There's nobody but ourselves here. My daughter, and Dan Barh, my son-in-law that's goin' to be as soon as wo can ar range to have tho wedding, just as it was before that gang- and bad luck inter fered. " The sheriff cleared his throat. "It's rather a delicate matter I've come on. "7 "Eh? Well, now, that's unexpected. But let's have it, Sheriff. We can stand it if you can, I reckon. " "Why, the fact is, the Monks Ned, Bill, and Pete, and Dick Treddle all of them make a serious charge against Mr. 1 Bash. " "Against Dan Bash?" j Hank wasn't quite sure who was meant. "You see, there? another Bash. The man who came hero to catch the gang cal s himself Bash." "They said Dan, the school-teacher. Chub looked at the Sheriff wondering ly. Sho listened like one in a dream. Was it possiblo anything would come between her and her lover now? What did the Sheriff mean? "Well, what do the Monks say? Mind, before you answer, Mr. Walker, I wouldn't believe all the Monks and tho Treddies back to four generations if they could bring them out of their graves no; not if four generations of that gang could get on a stack of Bib'e9 and swear to it, I'd not mind it moro'n the wind blowing. " "That's just my way of looking at it, Hank,"- said the Sheriff. "But Pvo sworn to do my duty." "In course. Well, goon." "Why, they'vo pintedly said Dan Bash Is in the samo line they aro in." "What's that, Sheriff?" It was Chub's voice. She had risen from her seat on tho end of the porch, and was now standing with her hand on Dan Bash's shomder. 6he looked to the Sheriff like some oao guarding him. "Yes I want to know," said H Dawson. "Them's strange words." If I must put it plainer, they swear or allege he deals In the queer himsslf. " "Deals in the queer! Queer! What's Queer, Sheriff Walker?" "Counterfeit money." TJie blacksmith laughed derisively. "Sho! Humbug. You know it's hum bug, Fheriff." "I don't believe a word of it." I knew it." "But that isn't all." "Eh?" Hank Dawson looked half ansr. "Well, what else?" . "They do say," hero the Sheriff hitched his chair uneasily, "that they can prove it. And to begip with, they say his name isn't Bash at alL His real camo is something else." "Humbug again Sheriff. Humbug. You don't believe it?" " "No" "Of course not." "Dan Bash, who was looking calmly at the Sheriff all the while, now turned and looked up at Chub. "Would it make any difference to you whether my name is Bash, Brown or Buff?" "Not the least. " "It might to others," said tho Sheriff. "I'll own up it might make a heap o' difference in this case," sa'd Hank, care lessly. "The looks of tho thing, under tho circumstau' e3, might make rople think maybe tho Monks wasn't alto gether wrong. 'Tain't usual for a man to change his name." "Of coure they aro wrong," said the Sheriff. "But why they are such fcols a to pretend to bo able t prove your name isn't Dan Bash, but altogether an other name, which they will reveal at tho right time that's what puzzles me, unless it's to gain time and help put in time. They've sent mo hero on a fool 3 errand, of. course, but duty's duty. Hank." "Of course of course," said nank Dawson. "You can prove your name is Dan Bash very easily, I suppose can bring these who will identify you, Mr. Bash, very soon." There was a lengthy silence. Hank Dawson stared silently at his daughter's aftianccd. Chub Dawson's lips were parted. Hex eyes seemed to road her lover's soul. At last her lover turned to tho Sheriff and said slowly: "Well, suppose my name is not Bash what then?" "Oh, why," the Sheriff said awk wardly, "why, I don't know as it wou'd prove anything, or go for much when tho facts are all known " "Well, then, my name is not Bash, Mr. Walker." "Not Bash!" "Not Bash not Bash!" exclaimed Chub, as sho caught her hands, interlac ing tho fingers, "You don't mean it, Dan!" "But I do mean it," said Dan, deliber ately. "Then I'm sorry," said the Sheriff, "for my instructions were to bring you with me, and now " "Stop, Sheriff !" Hank Dawson walked slowly opposite his daughter's lover, then he bent down and gazed steadily in his fa.e. "Let me hear that again. Is your name Bash or not?" The lover's countenance was equally solemn, his manner grave, as ho replied, slowly: 1 "It is not " ! "That's all, Sheriff. For God's sake, take him now now! I can't bear to see him, for ho was like my own sou! Ho was he was Sheriff." And Hank Dawson bowed his head be tween his hands. Chub stood spe'lbDund several min utes. Then she rushed on her lover, caught his sound arm tonvu'sively, and said: "There's some dreadful mistake. I believe in you I'll die if you aro not all I think you arc! Say you are what we think you are O! Dan! Dan! Speak to father!" The Sheriff turned aside and made some suspicious movements, like a man who was wiping his eyes. But the blacksmith's head was. still bowed in humility. CHAPTEIi XX. AN AGREEABLE SCRPRISE. Dan Bash or the man who had been known as Dan Bash looked at Hank Dawson strangely. He seemed to be re volving something in his mind. Then he said, very deliberately: "Sheriff, I am ready to go with you!" "Dan! Dan!" ; Chub looked at him appealingly. "But before I go," said Dan, quietly, "let me tako you into my confidence " "I don't want you to tell me anything. I don't want to know nothing about this miserable business," said the Sheriff. "I'd rather than fifty dollars! I would, p'um sock out of my pocket, than see a young fellow as handsome and as smart and with such ways as yours "" "Well?" said Dan, looking at him so berly." "Get mixed up with these blamed counterfeiters. Don't you tell me noth ing. If they prove it on you, they shan't do it by me no, sir. That ain't Tom Walker's style. I'll execute the law, but blamed if I'll furnish the proof!" "I like to hear you say so, .Mr. Walker. But what I was going to say is just tho opposite of what you imagine. " Hank Dawson lifted his head at that. "The very opposite. To begin with my name is a very good name. It is Ross. My people are very respectable people. My father is as well known as any man 'n the Stato. And ho is very well known in other States, too. And in Washington. " A peculiar smile played around his mouth now as he glanced at Hank Daw son: j "Your name may bo Ross, and your folks first-class, but you was going to marry my daughter as Dan Bash. How do you make that gee with respecta bility?" Hank spoke sorrowfully. He could not speak harshly to the young man. "I had not the least intention to marry your daughter under tho name of Dan Bash." "No?" -The Sheriff stared at him. "It never once entered my mind. " . "No?" Hank Dawson began to arouse him self now. He shook his shoulders, straightened out his arms, brought his hands together again, and looking from pno to the other said, slowly; 1 "This is getting too much mixed up Tor me." P'raps you'll make it clearer for us 11," said the Sheriff, politely. i "In good time. I intended reserving a surprise until tho minister was ready to marry us. nad I been permitted to reach the house In timo I would have said to all tho company what I am now joing to say to you. I am not Daa Bash. That name was assumed it Is the name of another, who is indebted largely to my father for his position in the world. And it was assumed with the knowledge and consent of tho real Dan Bash the detective." "I knew you were true, Dan." Chub sto'e to his sida and put her hand on his sound arm. "I would have told tho company that my father represented his district in Congress four terms in succession. That he has represented the nation abroad. That he is abroad now." "What!" exclaimed the Sheriff. "You don't tell me you aro a son of tho Hon. Dan Boss do you?" "I am." "What!" Hank Dawsoa poorcd in Ross face eagerly. "You a son of Dan Eoss!" "Is there anything wonderful in that or strange or startling?" "Well, but coming up here in the mountains leaving all your fine folks behind you starting out for a school! Blamed if it ain't too much for me to grap just at ouco. Give me a little time," sa'd Hank Dawson, in a dazed way. "I don't ask time. I know all about It, I think." Chub nestled closer to his side. "My name is Dan, too Poople who know me call me Dan Ross junior. " "This beats all. It's more wonderful than a play like tho novels one hears about," said Tom Walker. "My reason; for coming here under an assumed name was to avoid friends, who would, perharps, follow inc. They havo a habit of hunting me up. They pop down on me1 in unexpected places. I had another reason, too a powerful leason. A lady friend tho most Invctorato matchmaker in tho Stato has resolved I shall marry some one of her young lady friends." Ho might have addeJ, ono niece in part'cular was designed for him; but his gallantry and sense of pro priety would not ermit Dan Ross to hint so much even to his aTianced. "I was desperate. I know stranger ,things havo happened than marriages brought about simply to securo wagers. Finally, I was on my mettle for another reason. I argued still hold that a young man may go out in the world in this country without a fri.'nd, without money, and by honesty, earnestness and ability win his way first, providing ho has no bad luck, such as sickness or other misfortunes " "By George!" sa d the Sheriff. "And you undertook 1o 1 rove it?" "I havo proved it, haven't I, Mr. Dawson?" 'Hang your mister! Call me Hank. Proved it! Wei', T reckon rather rather, i "The gang must have found out your real name some way," said Chub. "No! They do not suspect who I am. I was too quick for that. I tell you what they did find. When I resolved to adopt the name of Bash I wrote a mem orandum stating my name was not Bash. That in case anything happened to mo any person addressing John Anderson an uncle, by the way at such a place, giving a description of my effects, and certain things in my possession, and on my person, would find out who and what I was." i 1 . "That i was right sensible, too," said Hank. I "Yes; and now I begin to see through tho whole thing, Mr. Dawson," said tha Sheriff. ; "The gang jumped to the conclusion Mr. Itoss was ashamed of something had done something he had to run for changed his name, and was just tho chicken they wcro looking for to he p fling dust in the commonwealth's eyes when the trial comes on." "I sea I s?o it now just as plain as you do, Sheriff," said Hank, eagerly. Than grasping Dan's hand Hank said, with deep e:notion: "Don't inind a durncd old fool like mc a mite I didn't ' b'lieve it! I couldn t b'lievo it; but It Idnda' obfusted mo twisted mo all up, when you said you wasn't Bash. Chub! Chub! He's worth a million common men! Ho is. Chub!" . "Darned if I don't thinic you are right, Mr. Dawson," said Tom Walker. "But now, as sheriff of Pino County, I'm in a blessed p.eiicament hrre, ain't I?" "Why? It's all clear now, " said Han k Dawson. ; "You forgctJ I'm expected to arrest Mr. Ross as a confederate, or a dealer in tho queer. Which is a mighty queer thing to do, if you'll allow me to make a pun on this occasion." "No! On the contrary," said Chub, quickly; "it is the very best thing that could have happened. " Whereupon thy all looked at Chub. "Explain, Miss Dawson," said the sheriff. "Yes, Chub, out with it. I want to know," said her father. ' "I dare say Chub is perfecting a plan that will 'promote the ends of justice,' as tho newspaD-crs say, and laid the Monks and all their associates in tho penitentiary." . And Dan Ross loilci at her proudly. "Well, then, listen." said Chub. ' (TO BE CONTINUED. A Boy's Essay on Giils. Girls is grati on making believe. She will make believe a'doil is a live baby. She will make believe she is orful sweet on another girl or a feller if they come to see her, and when they arc gone sho will say, "Horrid old thing!" If you do what a girl tells you sho says your horrid. I drather bo horrid than be soft. If you do what a girl tells you you will do all sorts of foolish things. Girls can be good in school every day If they feel like it. I shud think they would git tired, and havo to do sum thing wonse in a while; I know a feller docs. Girls say fellers act orfull, but when a girl gets a-going it, sho acts orfier than any feller durst. They don't care lor nuthing. If ajgirl wants a feller to carry her books home, she ain't satisfied unless she gits the samo feller the other girls want, whether she likes him or not. Girls Is great on having secrets I mean, telling-secrets. They make r. se cret out of nothing at all, and toll it around to all the girls, orful quiet, just as if it was sumthing dredful. I bleevo a girl likes to make bleevethoy a- e doing sumthing drodful. Girls always gits their joggerfy lessons better than a feller; but if they aro going anywhere, they don't know their way a bit and they are sure to get lost. If a girl don't feel like doing a thing, f on can't make her, no matter whether ihe had orteror not. If sho won't sho ron't, and she will git out of it some ow. That is til I know about girls this time. Home Queen. ' AWAKE FOR FIVE MONTHS. David Jones Went 152 Days and Night Without Sleep He is Improving. David Jones, a wealthy farmer, residing near Elwood, Iod., failed on the night of September 23rd last to sleep, and from that time on, n'ght after night, could not get any rest. He lost a few pounds of flesh, but was able to coctinue work, Noted medical men vainly trie! to afford him reilef. Last FrldaF night he began, to feel drowsy and that night elept half an hoar. He has sines been sleeping a little each night and it is now thought that h soon will be all right again. He went 152 day and nights without sleep Three years ago he went ninety day3 aid nights. He has lost only ten pounds during the long sleepless period now apparently at An end. -. The German Government does cot In'end to Incroase the number of sea-going iron clad above fourteen, but seven seooud-clas? .and one first-class cruiser will be built THE NErJ. Tue Misses Hettieaal M.imio Lojjaa aud iJnda Fiell were drowaed by breakie, through the ice while skating at Sergeant, Ky. A large acroi te was seen suootiag out of the heavens at RiaojNev., early Sat urday morning, esplodin r with tremeuJou force and awakening the people. A boiler in the sawmill of John McCroom,' near Ade phi, O., exploded, aud "three men were blown to atoms.- the works of the Akron Ch na Company, a: Akron,0 , was destroyed by Are. Los, $61,0 0, and on hundred and fifty men thrown out of work The Trad- deut Flour Mills, at Beth alto, IlL, was burn ed. They were owned by jp. K. KjiufTman of St. Louis, and valued at tlM.OJ. Iri ar. attempt to e.-capa from a convict camp on the American" River, near Folsom, Cat , three prisoners wre shot. Alfred E. Jewell, a special policeman, at lla'iway, N 4., was ehot aid killed while as-is'ij iu a laid on a gang of tramps. -Taieves, by a stick triek . robbed the posofflos at New Haven, 1 C't., o $920. A West Greenlaad expedition lias been organized by parties ia Sew Y-rk. Phil adelphia, Princeton and bbicago.-j Fire bugs continue to alarm the fcitizens of Way. nesboro, Fa., threats bavin! boon made of burning the Geiser Company's works. The stables of this company WVre : burned las' summer. Percy B. Chamberlain, an Eng lishman, who owned cousitera le property in West Virginia, committed suicide in Chi cago. j Mrs. Helena t-'eimSj ol , HoooKei, N : J. died of a broken heart. The Portland (Ore.) Col I Storaje W.lre'iom w is buraej. L jss 75,0 ft Sovor'alio vboats and barge3 were sunk in th O ii ltivor! near E nt Llverp ol, O , by the iise A. g0 3l ' deal of silver is being shipped frbm tie United S at03 to Japan. Rev. IL W.' Harris, of 6iklao-l, CaL, has gone on tho staja. -i-Geo-ge Magoe was haagol at Fr.snkfjrt, Kf. t a flght at Klmba'l, W. Va , four peasous wore seriously woundel, and Frank Mournot was killed. Bill Tom Hatfijld wn killed on Short Polo Creak, W. Va. The Nebraska leisla' ure has decided to pay beet-sugar producers flv do lira a toni- --llarrry Hill, who murJtrai Matthew lAkeson, of Cas3 county, Neb., was hangel at Plattsmoufi, Neb. Fire at Norfolk, Neb., destroyed tho ileno Hotel an I other pr&porty. Damag 1 $7530 William IL Wallace, an bid rail road man in the servico o ' the Coa-iol dated Road, retire 1 from aotiva service. rThe firm of Waxelba-im & Son, dry g jo Js mer chants a Macon, Ga , went into the hands of a reodver. J;o D janf a mu darer, was banr-dia Falrbura. Gi ' The rjpi br k anl he wa swung off ihe scaffold the -ecud time. Fiv ttousaal psop'io tore down the fence surrounding the gallows and witnessed the execution. - r ' Edward Kahley, a wealthy farmer near Gleugardner, Hunterdon county, NJ J., com. mitted suicide by hanging n mself to na up- ple tree in the rear of his b-ouse. 1 He Was sixty years old. Tha rea on for tha act is unknown. The Charleston, S. C, rioliee forco seized the schooner Caro'ina, which was oadod with contraband whiskey.- Tne gra id jury ia iicte 1 ex-C juntyj Auditor Van Auken. of Mason City, Ia . for, forgery of the public records. He had a dispute wit n the county board over fee3,nd it is obared tha to make good his case; ho altered the records. An a'tempt to rob the pvcrland e-cpress at Sieas Pas, Arizona, failed be cause the robbe s mad 3 a mistake. Ii cuttin ; off the wrong car.- Taotforoner'si. jury ia AshlanJ, Pa., returned a Verdict that Mrsj E I ward Welsh was mttrdaro I by some un known person. Hsr husband is under arrest, .- In an explostoa of molton metal .at tho -furnace of the Saeningo S e?l Company, in Newcastle, Fa James O'Brien, Jorerni ih Sullivan were probably fatally b irnel, while Ma'thow Custis and" sir others were -pniniully dnjured. The accident was caused by an im p rfect bosh plate, which b'irned out. ' Bnsiness has be'U re.-umed at the Tudcr Iroa Work in East St" Louis. The Indians on the Umatilla reservation, Oregon, nra giv.ng some trouble. Mrs. Coventry was burned.to death at Llbar:y, N. Y. Lo R y Fi-rnald, who murdered his mother lid thoir home in East L-sbanon, Me., and,' nTter sot ting tho building on Are,, ntn to a 1 attic to a vait death In the flame Was found deal :'n his o-dl in the jait Li Ro was ihsans. A mail ridor was m irderel In Smith oounty, Mis3., and the mail bag robbed. j-The rev enu cuttt-r Corwin left Saa Fi-ahcisco for Alaskan waters to buot for i licit 'dealers in w.d-ky. -Tho Santa Fffroad has male a cut of 2.5J in rates from C iliforriia to the Ei9t.- The Los Angele3 Californ a Con ¬ solidated Electric Railroad Company, has bean taken possesslouwof by tho bin Holder on aco unt of default la paymsnt of, tho half year's Intorest on the $3. JO.00) bni is'us due last September. Fifteen suits, aggre gating over a million dOHars have bsen dis- m ssed at San Francisco, ratniving the la-t obstruction from the distribution of the im mense estate of John Bul-Doe, a weal h lumberman. Twenty -fly"a men were killed and eighteen seriously iajdred by an explo sl n at the White Ash mine near Ls Cerril los, New Mexico. f: .; . . j CALLED TO THE CABINET. William L Wilson " to Genera'. ha Pojtmxstfr- The Fret-ident sent the iollo wing nomina tions to tho Senate: State William L. Wil son, of West V rinia, to be Potmajter General; Louis M. Bu'orJ, of UllnoU, to be Consul of the United States' at Paso del Norte, Mexico; D.B. Spagnoll of C alifornia, to be Consul of the Uaited States, at MiiaD, I'aly. :'i 1 Interior John II. Brickensteln, of Penn sylvania, and Arthur P. Greeley, of New Hampshire, (now principal examiners in the Patrnt Office), to be examiners-in- chief in the Patent Office. -i; The fact that President Cleveland intend ed to appoint Mr. Wilson to the position Las been kn,wa for several days to the most in timate friends of Mr. Wilson and to Mr. Wilson himself. The selection is one which the President made of hi own motion with out any urging from Mt. Wilson's friends, and largely in recognition of tho member's eervioes in leading the tariff fl jht ia the Hor.se. ';, , : " No member has benifon more Intimate terms with the President than has been the chairman of the ways and means committee, and his speeches in tho Houss have alway been understood to voice-the opinion of the a I ministration, le was nited that Mr. W.l son's speech on the amendment to the post- office bill to compel railway clerks to live at the end of th-ir routes perhaps the last speech ha will make as a Congressman was an earnest plea to support tbo Postmaster Gen raU i 1 ' No man in Congress has a greater personal popularity among members of Loth parties than Mr. Wilson. j ' ' . ..- - .. f RAILROAD WRECKS Particulars of the Great Dis aster in Mexico. . HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED The Vlctlrrn Were Excursbnlstson a Rel glous Pilgrimage-A Pas senger Train on the New JeitstJ Central 1-allroad Crashes Into Coal Cars. a desp itch from City of Mexico, say?: One it the most frightful accideuts ia tho history f the Mex cai' railroa is, resulting in the tilling of 131 p;rsoj, anl the serious if not 'at.il injary of ab jut 85 others, ooeurro t ou h la er tceanio Railroa 1 at a point about 15 mdes from this city.; A fowdiys a;o n treat nuni bar of persons left the cap'tal aud ho towns la the vicinity to go on a p Igriin ige to tho Catholic sbriao nt Sac rem onto. A long train, nb ard of w ueh tbore vere 1,203 passengor, was returning from he place of pilgrimago. All went well mtil a point ou the lino about midway bo :ween Tern ithi Hud Tenanjo was reached. Du this p irt o' the road there is a steep lu ; in, tho line at o'ne place having a sharp surve wliero It runs closes to the edge of a liga preciploa. : In coming down the mountain tho engl leer lost cjn'rol of lhe train and it was run ning at a high rato of speed when it struck ;he curva. Tho engins jumpod tho track nd roiled down the s:do of a steep prec'pico into a deep canyon. It was followed by throe passenger coaches, ail of which were fltiod rith poople. Ia rolling down tho mountain :he coaches were broken into kindling wood nd not a passenger escaped injury. Two Dther coaches also loft the track, but after running along on the ties for a short dis tance, turuol over, but did not go down tho' precipice. The other cars of the train went on down tho mountain nnd were finally Clocked by the hand breaks. As sojn as wor 1 of the ncoldent was re ceivod, a relief train was sent out with sur tjeons and a wrecking foro;, an 1 the worlt of r s'eulng ihe.wo mded and taking out the dead bas bo?n progresdag sine:. As fast as possible the woun led werj brought to the .ty, l'resident D sz having ordered tho lai itary hospital with its staff to caro for all survivors. A gsndarme who returned oa ons of the relief traius says that ho saw fourteen dead bodies taken from one coach. Those bodies wore mangled in the most shocking manner; 6ome of then were ia fragments, and limbs, heads an 1 bodies were mixed up iu such a mitnnor as to m ike identification almost Impossible. The scene about tho wreck was ims: sick ening, as well as sorrowful. Relatives wero search ,ng for miss. n.j members Of the fam ines, auu wJinen an 1 cui uron wno naa 10 st: husbands and fathers were crying and moan ing in a heartrending manuer.- This is the most serious wreck In Mexico since 1831, when a train load of soldiers went through a bridge, 430 of thitn being kill )d j Tn most careful inquiry in this section indi-i bates that ihere wero no Americans on tho: train, tho passengers so far as learned, being natives. i Tho train crew are Americans, aid iu ac- cordance with the Mexicaa custom all who wero not kl led will be arrested, the Mexican' laws placing the responsibility on trainmen lor such alia rs Lo ng stringent WRECKED BY A BROKEN AXLE. Coal Cars Thrown in an Expres3 Train's Way Two Men Killed. j The breWing of an axle of n gondola , car attached t0 aoal train on tho Central Ball- road of New Jersey caused a serlou wreck add the death of William II. Thomas ea- I l ' r ginoer, aad Winfleld Holland, fireman, at F rty-sixth s reo in Bayonne, N. J., at 6.33 o'clock P.M. Harry O'Roii, fireman, was hurt. The passengers wore shaken up, but notiDjured. The Boyal Blue Line expre s bad le t Jer Be City, wLst-boand, at C.12 P. M., nnd whoa it reacbe,! Bayonne, it ran parallel for som lime with a coal train eon-ising of twenty empty gondolas. The express was running at a high rate of speed, nnd it consisted of a locomotive, threo pas engT coaches, a rleeporaad a combination smoker and bag gage ca r. i i The cngi.io was in charge of William H. Thomas, the cnin-jor, of Philadelphia, nnl Winfiel 1 Holland and Harry O'Boil, firemen, of ihe bamoplace. ; Theri are four tracks at this place, two used for passenger serv c and the other two for' coal and freight traffic. While both trains were pp?eiiag along an axle of ono 0' the g nd. las suddenly snapped In two throwing a number of the empty coal cars over on to the passenger tracks a few rods in front, of the locomotive. Bt.-foro Engineer Tholnas was able to stop his en.ine crashed into ins gonioas. lne locomotive was wr eked nnd the baggage car ran up into the eng.ne. tlhe passenger coaches were thrown fr.m tho.trtcks,1ut wcro not overturned. MR. BISSELL RE3IGNS- The Fostmister Gensral Will Leave th President's Cabinet Fostma ter G-noral Wilson S. Bissell placed bis resignation as a member of the ca inet in the bands of Preddent Cleveland, to be accepted upoa the appointment of his successor., Though the rumors Of the c;m lng retirement of Mr. Bisse.l have been rl'e for s me time, the official announcement whoa it was made caused something of j a sei.sa ioD. Th fact spread rapidly through the hotels and clubs and tie discussion of the chances of Congress passing all the ap propriations bills quickly cave way to specul. t on as to who would be the new Postmaster- General lhe allegations which have been made that a disagreement between the Preddent and Mr. Bssell caused the resignation were known by almoet all In official circles to be Without the slightest foundation, and, there lore, the usuai interest and gossip which u-rally attaches to the retirement of a mem ber of a cabinet were entirely lacking in th's case, as it was oonceded by all that only the ce.-eonai desire of Mr. Bissell to resoms his luo alive law practioe actuate! him In taking the step which he did. . Estpebob Wiixiaji has onferrod upsn Emperor Francis Joseph the rank- of flrl I marshal-general in tho German army. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. SENATE. . SrxTT-ForTH Pat.-Iu the Senate the chief Interest of the day's doba.e ceoteivJ around the debate upon tho delt-etrti!liate plaa proposed by Mr. Gorman. A!tir it" had i-ecn debnb-d by Mr. Gorman. Mr. Miflv'Mr. Voprhees, Me. Allison Mr. Hill and othW Senators, It was withdrawn bv Mr. Gorman:' There was further consideration of the civil sundry appropriutl n biit SiXTT-Firm Pat. Ia the Senate the sun dry civil appropriation bill wn pasd.- in cluding the t5.0C0,0J0 for sugar bounty aud Ihe provision tor the npr'iMita!ion o't' th- United States at an International monetary' conference. The deficiency appropriation bil was reported. The civil sundry bill wa atiended to lncludo an appioprtat.n of 125.0 0 for tho Tenno- Kt position, .A night session of tho iMxinte 'w hold, nt whih Mr. Chandler con-uined the jtr'"'''' I art of the time in disausiu; cb-etious la several Democra le stab-s. Sixty -FixTH Pay. In - th Sr'enate many tills of Ucal imp irt.viert wro a. I. . Mr. Minder ou's ieso!u ion was adopted for a Committee of inquiry a- to tho a Ivlsabi ity t f a joint commute t on n-cr.-)log to do away, w th : hocus o n of pronouncing- u!oi' ujvn eceasod m -mbrs of C ixnm . An ani'-n I ment to the general dllcinoy bill was of- ' fere.l approprl ulujr (AMU) for an nrt.itr i ti n commi.-sion wi:h Grc.it Itrit an lo ad just clairm srowint out of tli lier tig a M'lzuiov An a'noiidint-nt o(TiTvt by Mr. Sherman to appropriate fl 5,00;) to pa Bering tea o'niins, in accordance with the President's ' recoil, memlatiou, was r-j ctd. It was required that the. work of tho eleventh, census to completed before July 1 next. Tim general deficiency bill wa p'isvl. Trlva pension bids, to which there wan no objection were consldo;ed. Sixty-Sevknth Pat. In tho Senate the Hesion teg in at 2 1'. M. , a'ti r a recess from 3 A.M. Great ciowd Idled the g.illoiii-s. The naval approprl itio.t bid was p i-c l providiug for two battlo t hi s, cix gunboats nd throe torpelo-oa's. Early ia the d:iy in agreement between the two house's was reichod on th buhiry civil appropriation oil), and later on the diplomatic and con-,n ar bill. Mr. liar. Is accepted tho i rovl-i m of ;he civil tundry bill look ng to nil inter national monotnry confore 100. Tim provis ion In the sam 1 bill (or the retirement of tho revenue mnr ne officers was withdrawn. Tim conference report on the sundry civil appro priation bill fas concurred in. A 6 1". M. 1 hi Senate" took a recms uuti! 8 ; ) 1". Ml Tun Senate receded from its ameailmont to tli'i diplomatic and consular b II appropriating $303,000 to begin the construction of 11 catno to Han ail. HOUSE. Sixty-Fourth Pay. In the llouso tl.ero was opposition to tho joint resolution pro hibiting tho Importation of good-i lu bond from the United States through tho free zone of Mexico. It was agreed that the Itnporio. tion be prohibited. Au agreement was re ported as having been reached- by cou forces n tho pension appropriation bill. Sixty-Fifth Pay. In the Houso - fifty-four bills passed by tho Sennte wcro dl-posed of most of them being of minor importance. Tne Senate amendments to the bill authoris ing the Washington and Marlboro' Railroad. Company to extend i s tracks into llio Iis trict of Columbia wero passed. The House insisted upon its di-ngreemnt to tho SenaM provision in the consular nnd diplomatic bill for a cable to Hawaii. The President's veto of the bill lor a enslon lor Hiram'Khca was susta'ned. Several measures relating to the District of Columbia wero passed. Sixty-Sixth Day. In tho House of Repre sentatives thore wus a gooonil contot lor ho passage of private bl Is. Tho legislative, ex ecutive and judicial bill was sent to confer ence. The bill to add two criminal sec ions to the interstate commerco act was defeated, , The bill designed to proorve fur seals in.-' Bering Sea was passed. '1 he nnli-loitery bill'' was p,assod. A bill was passed to lund West' Virginia 181. 306 ns her share of the direct, war tax of 1HC1, leys 27.328, th amoimt' heretofore paid by t lie goverumout.- At 0.'2 ) P. M. the House took a recess until H 1'. M' At the evening fees-ion private pension bills were considered. Sixty-Sevknth Pay. Tho Houqo was in continuous soi-slon all day, with recuses from i A. M. untib2 P. M. and fr. m 6 until 7.3) in tho evening, clearing tho decks 01' conference reports. B.dore mldulght the final coher ence reports on sundry civil, Indian, ljls'a tlve and diplomatic appropriation bids ha 1 boea adopted, leaving only the naval till ami general deficiency bill in issue between tho two houses. Mr. Din-more's attempt to pusi the bill to grant a riht of way through tho Indian Territory to a railroad company over thePres dent's veto fajled. Mr. .lone- lemo- crat, of Virginia) opposed the' bill urauti jr a pension of $100 per month to Major-U ihtnI McClornand, out atter a speech by tienerul Sickles (democrat, of New Vork) it pas-ie.l. The Hons ) was in session all day Suturd.'iv. Twenty-five bills and resolutions were pa -se 1. 'lhe bill ,to appropriate ai,0)0 to build a statue to General Stark was defeated.-. The general deficiency bill was reported by con ference and agreed to. , ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Bkv. Du Ait Mas ilKXitir M. I'iki.o ar.J passing the Winter in Wa-ihinto i t'eitj y tho near cotnpaaois!i:p of Jutiej Fi id who is said to bo ageing rapidly n'w. Jclhs Veune is 7S pears old. -His -llri novel waspublishcd when h was 3.3, and he has been producing them at the r.i.e of two a year ever sinco. Vjrne is v -ry fon 1 of E ilish literature, au 1 he think Char es Dickeu9 the greatest of ail British hove ist-.A Hue H n Slodg 'latum, of Go irg a,. con d . not escape with ih it mm: Ho ii iropariiig" to go west to sup Jrlu'.eu i tho surv ;y of a part of th U o lie ervatl 11,11 po.-iti m 'which ' was recently given him by tlrs Hi;r-jt.ary of the Interior. . Judge Boswobtii, of Middleborouh, Ky., has ordorel that alt gam1; ing m.-nhi ies in that city ceas? operations, aud that any j.cr- ' son tbrow-ng dies either f-.-r drinks or any thing else shall be arte, ted and niake or given an opportunity to make au explana tion in the City Court. Mits Platt, wife of ex-Seuator P at,! of Now Yoik, while her husband has bc;n em-, cerned over the Gotham jatronage is in Florida looking over .the devastation whiou the severe woather of thepi-t month lias worked in her orango groves. Oat of 38JJ boxes only 800 boxes were savod, the ot.h-.-rs being frozen solid. Tho late President Carnot Is to b3 cjrn memorated at Anpu'.emo by a statute, which U the work of M. Uaoul Vtrr'er, a clever young scJlptor, who carried off tho prizo at the Salon in 1887, and a. ; medal of honor in 18?'). He also did tho monum'tnt in Maupassant. The Caraot monument is . twelve feet high. W. J. Ely, of New York, who rcc?jatly re turned from an eighteen montbs.' pro-poct-iag tour in Venezuela and British Guiana, 'dec ares that peri's aa 1 haidships Ua t the path of the gold hunter in .tlioas region'. Mr. Ely is ab3Ut thir.y years" td I, tall, wel formed and of evident pluck and determina tion, hut-he Had the South American E! Dorado isnot all it Is cracko 1 up to ba. Miss Bilgraml, of Hyderabad, the fir t Mohammedau girl So try a university exam nation hat pass-d the first examination iu arts at the BIsdras University with honors 1 1 Arabia Not being a'lowcd to leav th zenana, she pursue 1 her studies by hrs:i under very great difficulties, as the c ui 1 notatteni college lectures. Shu took- her -examination in aTfirl, ecbool under the eye of -he hiad mistress. W. W. Lowd gave a suecce est at- ilinr Daluth, Mina., nt his invi ill vi" pictures by telegraph The faintest do a n were transmi ted, evei to lhe ' '" ".v.-' futures. The object iou to tne telautograph" has be.a its Inability t re. produce shaded linos. '
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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March 8, 1895, edition 1
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