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t - .- f .- f SHIPMAN & f NE CO. ' , . ; HENDERSONVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2,1 ' - , 7 ARE SH01. ed at Riga Factories. TROOPS FIRE ON BODY OF MEN Strikers From Suburban Factories Were Attempting to En er the Town in Spite of Op position of Troops. London, January 26 - 8:45 p. m. A dis patch to a news agency from Riga, Russia, filed at 5;30 p. m., the striaers in the suburban faotories there attempted to enter the town, but were opposed by trooSs who fired, killing and wouudiug many p ersons. The strikers were dispersed. The strike here Is general. Deipnstra tions are in progress and the newspapers are not publishing. l The encounter occurred near 1 akkum railroad station. The strikers attacked the troops and attempted to disarm them, when the order was given to fire. All the workshops and factories rare closed. The strikers are parading, the srreets and forcing all workmen tooin in the procession. N e A 'dispatch to the Reuter's T) egram Company from Riga confirms tbe previous announcement of a collision there between strikers and troops. Thi rty work m en w ere killed or wounded and a substitute chief of police and two soldiers were rportally l , 3, wounded. 3 r London, January 26. A dispat$ St. Petersburg, time 9:26. p. m., U agency, reports taat l'ahl's facton large cotton mill have been set oy are burning fiercely. S4 b4 Reval, Russia, January 26. Negotia tions are going oa between; strikers and their employers. The government is par ticipating in the exchange of views. Libau, January 26. The workmen here are being compelled. to leave the faetories and mills by the more militant factions of the strikers. The telegraph Hues have been damaged. Saratoff, January 26. All the printers havs struck. The men on the railroad have ioined in the movement. There has been no rioting thus far. SOMETHING MUST BE DOING. The Industrial Battles ot the World Test the Steel in The Men. A Boston business man, conspicuous among the successful men in the com mercial world, said: 'The grain must not remain In the elevator nor the coal in the pit." The expression translated mans that something must be doing in the world all the time. The purpose of the world is to keep moving. -The more we cun do in the general tumult of pushing it along the greaterour success in life, the nearer we have come to achieving our divine destiny. It docs not follow that we must make a deal of noise and bluster about it, Our names may never appear in print nor public office may ue yer blindly seek us from the midst of a waiting throng, yet we can ablv do our portion in the world's a work. The point to remember is tht the world is destined to move and that each of us as individuals must find his certain work to do, so that in tbe end it cau be counted in as a necessary and valuable portion of the whole. The best livaa are the most actvie. The world is not a great resting place. The best men, tbe most successful and those that accomplish anything, everlastingly keep at it. They sever let go except to recuperate for a nw start and more vigor, .a. good way to consider it is that there will be plenty of time to rest and idle when we are no longer able to work and to do for the great pleasure there is in achievement. Wars aud conquests claim few; it is in industrial battles where most of us are re quired to test our steel. And be who best tquips himself for the fray and continues unceasingly is most often claimed for the greatest victories. "The grain must not remain in the elevator nor tbe coal in the pit." New York Commercial Advi riher. There's a pretty girl in an Alpine hat A sweeter girl with a sailor brim, But the handsomest girl you'll everee, ib me sensinie gin wno uses STRIKERS HanyKMandWouiitt Mountain Tea. SOME STRANGE OCCUPATIONS Very Peculiar Methods of Making a Livelihood. To be a valet to a begger sounds an im possible -way of earning a living. Yet in a recent police court case in Loudon it trans pired that a man named Webb acted in that capacity to a man without arms who begged In. the streets. Webb slated that his master was "most perfider," bad to be shaved every morning, .aud had hiafjeth brushed three times a day. Webb's wages were $10 a week The man who bites dogs tails for a living is a well-known character In parts of Eng. land, " ' The north country miners have a- super stition that, if their Lpuppies' tails are "shortened" with a knife instead of in the old-fashioned way, their fighting qualities will be injured. Ouly recently a man named Graham was sent to prison for a month for exeruisingthis peculiar calling. An equally odd and cruel profession has been allowed by an East End man in Lon don for the past twenty year. He buys bad meat, and doctors it up in such a faah iou that it will pass must.er when exposed for sale on tbe casters barrows. He carves off all bad portious of a joint of beef, and washes what is left with a sol ution of permanganate of potash. This has the effect of removing tbe smell of taint and enabling the meat to pass muster until some poor woman has taken it home for dinner. Until receutly a wooden-limbed man named O'Hara did a brisk business in second-hand le'gs. Whenever a wooden-legged man or other ctipple died at the Hospital close by where he lived, O'Hara promptly bought up the prop and crutches, if the relatives were willing to sell. These he disposed of to other poor patients wbo were uuable to af- ford the surgical instrument maker's prices. Wearing the stiffness out of new boots 1 is auotber peculiar calling, yet a Loudon bootmaker has a man who, for a consider ation prepared to do this for wealthy cus tomers. He is kept busily employed, too, averaging twelye hours' tramping daily iu and about Hyde Park. - Even this occupation, however, is sur passed in noveliy--at all events, m ,its mode of carrying out by tnatttfnne ujitf whose profession is teaching, gentlemen how to shave. Some years ago this man lost a fairly good situation by reason of a disfiguring barber's itch, caught at the bands of an un cleanly barber. He got rid of the complaint at last and took to shaving himself; and now Barber stands at barbers' doors the man's name, curiously enough, is Barber delivering hand-bills, headed: Why catch the itch? Learn to shave yourself," and offering a course of lessons in the art at a nominal fee. He gets $15 a week. Some commercial travelers earn their in comes in novel ways. None more so, per haps, than the gentleman whose "line" is selling to the natives of Africa the idols turned out in such quantities by well-known Birmingham flrjns, ' Tbe commonest way to dispose of a god 8 to "square" with the witch doctor. Tbe savage holds a "palaver" at which he de clares the "gods" want propitiating, and this, of course, takes the form of a new god. " Another way of booking orders is to steal quietly into the sacred grove of a village and set up an Idol unobserved: When the natives see it they are paralyzed, and wonder how it got there. Tbelr first act is to fall down and worship it. Then tbe smart traveler comes along with explanations, and leaves the village with another sale to his credit. London-Answers. LAST SUMMONS ANSWERED. Col. Allen T. Davidson Passes to The Great Beyond. Asheville, Jan 25. Col. Allen T. Da vidson died this morning at 11 o'clock, at his home in this city, after an illness of several months. Colonel Davidson was one of the most prominent men in this section of the state. He was one of the few surviving members of the Con gress, having been elected from the western district of North Carolina dur ing the civil war. Colonel. Davidson was a native of Haywood county, at the time of his death was in his 84th year. He served in the Confederate. Con gress until the spring of 1864, and in the fall of 1865 located in Macon count ty, and,in 1869 moved to this city. In 1864, and 65 he served as a member of the council of Governor Vance and acted as commissary agent of the State. The latter duty was to distribute provisions to widows and families of Confedeate soldiers in Western North Carolina. Three sons and three daughters survive him. NEW LAWS ENACTED; Synopsis of LegislatiYe :PrK ceedings at Raleigh. TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION! Liquor Must Go From Rural Com munities and Small Towns. General Law with Such Re- . strictions LikeJy to be . Passed. Party Pledgod to be J Temperance. 1 Nearly four weeks of the 60-days time allotted to the General Assembly fur the transaction of the people's business have passed and excepting several measures of local import little has been done in the matter of legislation. There is really no great amount of legislation of general significance needed, or demanded. Little remains to be done save the enactment of the Revenue Bill and Machinery Act, both of which arc practically completed by the Finance Committee; the adoption of the new Revised Statutes; . passing appropria tion bills; enacting strengthening clauses to Watts Law; adjusting the bonded indebted ness and placing a more equitable divorce law upon tbe statute books. It is evident that more ample proyislons will be made for confederate soldiers and "the insane people of the state, and for these two clashes au increased appropiration is an ticipated. Other institutions will have to be content without additional allowance. While the Senate has passed a bill provid ing for an increase in the salaries of su preme" and superior court Judges, from $2,750 to $8,500, there Is little likelihood that the House of Representative a will concur. The merits' of the preposition are unquestioned, but many leaders In both houses are inelinedito the idea that this is -nctt-cpoTtune llme'Rrralse salaries. .' The following acts have been ratified: To prvoide the erection of memorials, at Appomattox court house; exteud time for registering certain state grants; regulating manufacture of whiskey in Asheville; providing for court stenographers in Craven county; printing Governor's message; bene fit of stenographers . in .Rowan county; authorizing city of Wilimington to acquire land for purposes of a public park; to in crease pay of jurors in Pitt county; road law for Henderson' county; incorporating Sanford and River Valley R. R. Co., relief clerk of Henderson Superior court; pro tection of Fish in lakes of Bladen county; amending charter ot Salem; holding courts in Martin county; incorporating Pamlice Banking Co; election of commissioners in Granville and Franklin counties; incor porating State8ville Airline R R. Co.; draining certain lands in Lincoln county; road law for Halifax county; game law for Northampton and Richmoud counties; extending corporate limits of . Lexington; regulating pay of jurors in Craven county; abolishing Neuse river as a lawful fence; reducing special tax an poll in Moeresville; authorizing commissioners of Henderson and Lincoln counties to change county homes; incorporating Durham and South Carolina R. R. Co.; game law for Madison county; relief ot Sheriffs and Tax Col lectors; prohibition for Richmond county; game law for Nash county; disbursing public funds in Sampson county; special tax for Stokes county; autborzing Gov. Glenn's inaugural address printed; regard ing jurisdiction of police officers and Justices of the Peace; road law for Lincoln county; ameudirg charter of Hexelena; election of commissioners iu Bertie county; game law for Person, Granville and Vance counties; regulating improvident injunc tion?; enlarging incorporate limits of Clinton; hunting in Montgomery county; chauging boundary lines between certain townships in ' towan county; changing name of Baptist Female Univeisity to "Baptist University . For . Women;" in corporating Rbodhiss Graded school in Caldwell county; amending charter of Lit tleton; incorporating Granite Falls Graded school; alowing town of Clinton to levy special tax; amending dispensary act for Marshall; directipg State Treasure to cancel certain bonds and return to Alex ander county; regarding juror in Iredell county; to allow Justices of the peace jurisdiction in offence of unlawful riding on railroads; amending charter of Brevard; regarding appointment of Aides-De-Camp; providing local tax levy for advertising Pine Bluff as a winter resort; - prohibition for Scotland Keck In Edgecombe; and Fountain in Pitt county; incorporating chuicbes in Columbus county; road law for Ashe county; to . prevent fast driving over bridges in Randolph county; special tax for Brunswick county; to validate deed from state to P. H. Hughes; game law for Rowan and Hertford counties ; di vision ofdispehsairy proceeds in Johnston county; regulate stock running at large in Ashe county; ' requesting reports from superintendents of state institutions; act Tor relief of county commissioners. - . f ; 'lne- Senate number has reached 845, snowing about tbe usual progress at. this period of the session. The following bills have been laid upon the table by vote of A. " .L ' luo ocnawre; act io permit mariea wo man to make contracts; to defray traveling and other incidental expenses of the Gov ernor; fixing punishment for carrying con cealed weapons; to make title, of an act a part thereof; preyenting riding bicycles in the town of Roper; regarding salary and expenses of , Judges; ; appropriation of partnership funds to personal benefit; mak lug punishment for assault with intent to commit rape discretionary in cases of con victton of simple assault amending sec tion 087 of the code; to place certain con federate soldiers on the pension roll; penalty for assaults upon women; resolu tion to establish a committee oa Liquor Traffie; barring.power of sa'e in legal pro ceedings; relative to takiug depositions, providing the age limit .if jurors to sixty years: makiug it a felony to appropriate partnership funds; to prevent hunting in Caldwell county without consent of - the owner; to supply clerk of Henderson coun ty Superior court with certain books and providiug for some to be rebound; to ap point committee to investigate State's bonded indebtedness; bill to increase salary of Governor and Judges. It is practically certain that some gen eral temperance legislation will be enact ed. Many demands are commlnz ud from various sections asking for local prohibitory laws and the purpose of the Legislature, at present, seems to incline toward a gener al law rather than crowd the statue books with so many local measures. The pre vailing opinion appears to be that a bill will be passed excluding towns having less than 50u inhabits from the provisions of the Watts Law, thereby confining the manu facture and sale of whiskey to incorpora tions strong enough to provide for ample police protection in regulating the liquor traffic. , Several bills of such import have been Introduced already and the fight is sion progresses. The Senate is a strong anti-liquor body; tbe House . debates long and loud upon all prohibition propositions; Anyway, the democrats are pledged t stand by tbe state platform of their party, which is plain upon the question. M. L.S. The Pantheon. The Pantheon is the most interesting of all the interesting places of Borne. It was used for its present purpose as a place of religions worship befere the found ation of the Coliseum were laid. Its huge doors have opened to admit the great ones of the earth, from Augustus Caesar to Napoleon, an assertion that will scarcely be disputed. It stauds in the very heart of old Rome, and the vicissitudes which have befallen the Eternal City during the 2,000 years of its existence .have .left it practically un changed. The gilded bronze that lined, its roof has been carried off to "decorate" St. Peter's, where, in the form of clouds and Cupids, cords and curtains, it fills the be holder with displaced amazement . The tiles of bronze and gold were remov ed to Constantinople 1,500 years ago, and the statues which adorned it have long since perished, but the mighty walls yet stand, firm as ever, sweeping up to the majestic dome, the largest though not the highest, in the world. One hundred feet across, a hundred feet high and perfectly circular, no architect could design a building more perfect in its proportions, more harmonious as a whole. It is lighted solely by an aperture in the dome, a circle thirty feet across. Stand ing on its marble floor one looks up to the greatest dome man ever raised and through that the blue dome which bends above it, sending summer sun or winter rain through those bare wards of space. The effect is so impressive, so entire! unmatched and unrivaled, that the dullest of hearts and the most untaught of minds must perforce acknowledge its influence. A man may think St. Peter's" disappoint ing," may condemn tbe Colesium as barbaric or decide that ' he does not card for the catacombs, but every man who has viewed it has been impressed, even to the pitch of Respectful silence, by the Panthe on.' .. ' ";' : The huge leaves of the bronze door revolve on their mighty hinges as they have done since the . days of Caesar, and so perfectly balanced are they that a wo man's wrist can unclose them. Through those doors they carried Julia, Caesar's daughter, . with ' all the pomp of her im perial power about her. And after the lapse of twenty centuries. King Humbert was brought across the selfsame threshold to Bleep his last sleep in the ancient place. Ex. CAR LINE Froi HendersonyiDe to to Asheville. PROPOSED PUNS DISCUSSED. ELECTRIC Horse Shoe. Mills RivAranH nthftr1 W a Confederated Places to be Benefitted Chimney Rock 'the Final Destination. Judze H. G. Ewart and W. A. Smith. vi xxenaersonvuie, representing me tfoara of Trade of that place, met with the di- rectors of the Asheville Board of Trade yesurday afternoon for the purpose of dis- cussing the proposed electric railway ,from Asheville to Hendersonvilie and thence oh to Chimney Rock, in Rutherford county; The matter was discussed vesterdav in a general way and with a view to bringing the Asheville and Hendersonvilie interests of the projected enterprise in closer touch. It developed daring the conference that the people of Henderson and Rutherford counties are enthusiastic over the matter and that sufficient subscriptions have been secured to enable the projectors to secure a charter and make a survey. Application for the charter will be made at once and subsequently the survey will be under taken. " There are two routes proposed. One is to parallel tbe Southern railway line from Asheville to Hendersonvilie and the other through West Asheville, and the Horse Shoe and Mills River . section . The latter route is deemed the best and it is probable that if the road is built this will be' the route selected. By coiner through the Mills River and Horse Shoe sections a great deal w leruxe ana vaiuame iana win oe toucnea for the repeal of the Fourteenth Amend by the road and the country brought in - . - tl - A. . closer contact with AshevUle and Hender- m6Dtf the .ConsUtutiOn .of the United The projectors of the road and those citizens most interested do hot propose to allow the road to stop at Hendersonvilie. . . . . - . nsvarairor nana in thn nnnfinn.tiAn mv i w v , mww iu uuuu due liUUUUUauuu Ul a trolly line into Rutherford county past Chimney Reck and into South Carolina. The road would be ased for both freight and passencrer service. It is said that the cost.of grading via the Mills River route would be reduced to the minimnm owins to the apparently level condition of the country and that the prospects for the sue- cessful carrying out the scheme is bright. -Gazette-News. BIG WILD CAT KILLED. Chase In Craggy Mountains Pro ductive of Results. Panther Story. Asheville. Jan. 26. M. M. Jones, the celebrated bear hunter of the Black Mountain section, was in the city yes- teraay ana in conversation witn a newspaper man told of the capture . in the Craggy mountains last week of the largest wild cat ever trapped in West ern North Carolina. Tha cat measured four feet and ten inchs from tip to tip and weighed a fraction over 35 pounds. Mr. Jones said that the .chase after the cat and the fight the animal bad put up after It had turned, was one of the most exciting he had ever seen. The race lasted for more than two hours and dnr ing that time the dogs and the hunters followed tbe cat over the most rugged of the Craggy mountains. Six of Mr. Jones' dogs participated in the chase and in the fight that followed two were seriously hurt by the hunted animal. Another interesting wild cat or pan-1 ther story comes from Alexander's this county. According to a correspondent tnere, tbe people oi the weaverville section are excited over the report clr- culated by several prominent people of tnat vuiage to tne enect tnat tney ana otners nave recenuy seen a pa inner in tne wooas near tne weavervine ueme- tery. it is stated tnat wmie Mr. and Mrs. Lotspeich, of Weaverville, were on their way home. irom church last f bunday mgnt tney were ottacKea Dy tne animai; tnat mr. uotspeicn nrea at the Deast ano tnat it went oounding in- to tne wooas. . in speaKing or me pres enceof the animal the correspondent savs. Air. juotspeicn says mat it is eitn- er a panther or catamount. Alh that u. ,w th.. 1, " v - j " a i along at a rapid rate. The people are afraid to go out and a hunting party ho. hfln nrtmnlzftd and will pnnr , . T , , capture tu muii. mr. .uowpeicn is a prominent man ox to. is section ana much credence is given to what he W f. nl ttin thfnif " Two) 1 Kno! liam H EnfelU to-day clerk by terrupted t ist's .conclusiw "Asheville, were sweethearts aiA promises. The war cam ictuiu uumc mm una nis sweetfieart goneT leaving no trace. In his grief: and in the hope that he: might one day. see her, he traveled over many States and in many countries, finally settling down on a farm near Jackson Miss. A a r . i " oYioi,awj iwme scenes or ma vnnth i ana went to JSorth Carolina, By chance near bis old home, he found the sweet- neart of foity J8 S Hring Like him I ShA hod hflfin hrna' fs V.n- J . ' . M 7.? hoping one day to see Wiilianu Their mutual hopes realized,- it required but a Iew bours tor;her,ta' accept his hand, pack ner TOIngings an onboard the train for Mis- sissippi. They-, stpped over here and were married at noon to-day. - THE WAY TO DO IT. Hew To Proceed fn Repeal Of nfteeoiAiiieiitti- FOURTEENTH IS FIRST. Then Way Will Be Open For Obliterating the Fifteenth. A resolution introduced in the South Carolina legislature to memorialize comm blates has failed to pass. Under ordinary rJ-TT """ ii iriTTrMni-t'r' ii - f " i ' "f tinr-i i n niint I circumstances; : it might be considered ' scarcely proper to insinuate that the gentle lu - I uiyuuuug euuu it resolution does not I . .... 1 ' .... -r, " I x uuium Amenament is, out inere 13 a suggestion in it all that he aoes not. i here is much , confusion resPectlDS the Fourteenth and .Fifteenth Amendments tQ the Pederal ConstituUon, a Tev natural confusion, perhaps, consider- iu the f.act that very few people whodis- vuoo mis uianer u&ve taaen the two minutes' time necessary :to read; over the amendments. ' The Fourteenth Amendment--that oart of it referring to the elective franchise and the apportionment of representatives among the States is inoperative because it has been superceded by the Fifteenth. A' mere look at the two amendments will show this, and will show also that ' all talk of reducing the representation in the South is simply and solely bosh. That : i what it has been intended to be from the very beginning of the agitation, that and noth ing more. Claus 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment reads: - "Representatives shalj be apportioned among the several State according to their respective number of persons In each State, excluding v Indians not taxed But when the right to vote at any election for President and Vice-President of the Unit ed States Representatives in CoBgress, the executive and iudicial officers of a State or the members of the' Legislature , thereof is -denied to any of the male members of such State, being of twenty-one years of age, and citizens ef the United States, or in any way abridged except for p&rticipa tlon in rebellion of other crime,- the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the. number of such citizens shall bear to the whole num- ber of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." Very well; that is plain enough. Eatified by the aid of bogus governments of ten Southern States it was proclaimed in 1863. it was meant to ; apply- to the negro. But two years afterwards another amendment. the Fifteentby passed which deelared: "The right of the citizens of the United states to vote shall not be denied or abridg- ed by any State on account of race, color, 0r previous condition of servitude." Hence if you cannot deny the right to vote, how are you going to reduce rep- resentation because you have denied it? in other wordsr if you enforce this , clause oi tne ouneemn . Amendment on aecount OI cusrrancnisement ior race, color, or Previous condition, you thereby annul the uiteenth Amendment. Accordingly the way for the Southern people to get tbe Fifteenth Amendment repealed wouia oe w insist upon the en- forcement of the Fourteenth and nowhere wouid it be opposed more stubbornly and bitterly tnan among tne very people wno began the hypocritical agitation. Charlotte HeWS. I J" 7