North Carolina Newspapers

MP ON VACCINATION D'J Down in Florida Where There Is Scare. SAYS MANY ARMS WERE BARE. Arp Then Talks About How Physi cian Have Become Famous for Their Discoveries. Jacksonville, Fla., April 12. Jack sanville has got the smallpox scare. St Is not a panic, for there has been &9 deaths, but there are about forty 'msm and the board of health have ot them out of town and have order 4d universal vaccination. A child aui't go to school without a ; sore rm and a certificate from the doc tor. My son is a doctor here and it Interests me to note the flocks of -children who come and go and to lis ten to their talk. Mothers or sisters veome with them to keep their cour Age up. Some are timid and some are Ivave. Young men come at night and -take their turns, and the city will doon be immune. What a wonderful discovery it was only a hundred T"ars ago Dr Jenner dared to pro- -oiaim it to the world and it took -twenty-five years to make tha world Jelieve it. Now every child that "Stores its arm to receive the virus is -a living monument to the sagacity of -that great and good man. It is pa thetic to read tow he was hounded mid persecuted by the envious and malignant of the medical profession. SHow patiently he waited for time and itrsth to prove his theory, and lived to see it confirmed, and when he died a beautiful monument was erected tia Trafalgar square to honor his -name and perpetuate his fame and memory. Our own Dr. Crawford tong is entitled to a similar memor ial, not only by the state, but by the nation, for although he did not pro--tect mankind from a pestilence, he - did give them immunity from pain ander the surgeon's knife. I re member well when the patient had to linch his teeth and strong men had to hold him while the doctor cut and awed his limb in two. I remember when it was my part to hold the foot and leg that was teing severed from a poor sufferer, and when at last the saw had j cut through the bone and the weight of the limb came down upon me I fainti d and fell down upon the floor with the bleeding leg. But Evans never groaned. He lived to make me an- . other pair of boots. I remember when at college in 1846, I had a jaw tooth extracted, and took ' what f was then called Morton's Lethean, and lidnt know when it was pulled. It took me some time to get over it and as I was reeling back to college I met Professor McCoy, and in a hi- j larious manner slapped him on the shoulder and said: "Hello, old Mack and he thought I was drunk and had me before the faculty. My roommate TJerrell Cody, was with me and tried to explain, but the professor would -not hear him 'and we had fun next morning when the truth came - out, "The professor apologized to me and not long after invited me to supper. Poor Bill Williams was there good, loving Bill Williams. He was my classmate and I loved him, and mourned for him when he died. He Chad charge of the hlind asylum, at iMacon for many . years. Every now and then the boys drop out. 1 Just drop out and the procession moves on. I read of every one and feel sad but that is all I can do. A friend in At .J lanta asked me the other day, "why didn't you write something about Eugene Harris, your college mate and one of the truest, kindest and 1 best men that ever lived." "Of course. of course." said I, "but what- could .write. He was a friend In need, a gentleman in heart and manners. Xost everything by the war except -the gentleman that was born in him. He died poor and was buried by his friends, but he was a big-hearted '. gentleman to the very last. How - .kind he was to my wife and little children during the war, when j they were fleeing from the foul Invader, and I was far away. That's all. He was not a great man in any sense, but he had a great big heart I and would have died for a friend. That's all! If I can't find him in heaven, I shall be disappointed. My wife says ius was the best friend she ever had when she was in the greatest distress. Easter is about over and will soon "be forgotten. I brought down some Easter eggs for a little grandson. Bis cousin dyed them for him and he was very curious to know more about btern, and said.to his mother, "Moth er, who is tMs Easter man and where -does he live?" "He lives up in i hea Ten," she said, "and his name fs .Jesus.". "Is he selling eggs up there" fie asked. How these little chaps do perplex us with their questions. Uttle Mary Lou has the whooping (Sough and didn't want to take her medicine. "If you don't take I it," said her mother, you may i die." "Well, mamma, if I do die I will go . to heaven, where God is, and he-, will give me a pony." I wish the grown up people were as trusting and inno cent as the children.' "Suffer little children to. come unto me, for of such ia the kingdom of heaven" is one of the sweetest verses in the scriptures. The preachers may quarrel about tbe confession of faith, and infant salvatfon, but the mothers don't want any better faith than is in that verse, and that one other where David said iJt his child : "He cannot : come to trae but I shall go to him.". There is another remark that I will make about mothers. Not one believes that her lead son is lost, s no matter 'how wicked he was. The mother expects to meet him in .heaven and if he is 5ot there how can she be happy? 43od knoweth. We do not All that 0. poor mortal can do is to trust Him arid do good. Bill Arp, In Atlanta jCoostltatloa. THE ELECTION LAW. fha Election System as Created by the Last Legislature. The new election low provides for the appointment by the Governor cf a State Board of Elections, five in number, to hold office 2 years, begin ning June 1, 1901, not more than three of ft he members to be of the same party. There shall be in every county a coun'ty 'board of - elections to con aist of three persons, appointed by the State board of elections, holding office two years, not more than two mem here to belong to the same parity. The State chairman of each party shall harra the right to recommend persons for appointment on the county boards, and the State board, shall appoint the county boards from ;the names recom mended; provided (they be recommend ed on or before the first (Monday in August of the year when appoint ments are to be made. The State board of electrons shall meet in Raleigh on the first Monday In July, 1901, for organization. The members shall receive as compensa tion $4 per day for time actually en gaged, together with actual traveling expenses, etc, ,,.; . .. The county board of elections in each county shall appoint registrars and judges of election. The State board shall have power to remove any member of a county boaord for incom petency, failure of duty, or any other satisfactory cause. The county board shafll have power to remove any reg istrar Or judge of election for satisfac tory cause. The county board shall meet not later than the first Monday In Sep tember, 1902, and biennially there after, and at any other times as tho chairman or any two members may direct, to divide the counties into election precincts and fix the polling places. They may. adopt the present election precincts or may establish new ones. There shall be at least oni polling place in each township, con veniently located for the-majority of the voters. Before the next general election on the Tuesday after the flrs Monday it November, 1502, there shall be an en tirely new registration of all persons entitled to register in every voting precinct of the State, and only such persons as are registered shall be en titled to vote. Every person present- ng himself for registration shaJl be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English lan guage, provided, itha; no person who was on or before Jaruary 1st, 1867, en titled to vote in any State, and no ineal descendant of such person. shall be denied the right to register and vote by reason of his lallure to possess itne educational quaiincation aforesaid. In all cases, the app.icant for reg- stratlon shall be sworn and shall an swer all questions material to his iden- Ity and qualification. The registrar. if 4n doubt, may require other evi dence as to qualification of applicant. No person shall be entitled to vote unless he shall have paid his poll tax for the previous year, except in case of those exempt from polfl tax. Removal fom one election district to another in the same county shall not deprive any person of the right to vote in the district from which ne has removed until four months after such removal The residence of a married man sttall be where his family reside, and that of a single man where he sleeps. The county board of elections ehal select, on or before the first Monday in September, 1902, and biennailly thereafter, one registrar for each itownship or precinct. The registrar shall, between 9 a. m. and sunset for 20 days preceding the day for closing the reglstraition books, keep the books open. On the second Saturday before each election, the books are to be closed. On the Saturday preceding the election, the registraitdon books shall be, from 9 a. m. until 3 p. m., open for the inspection of the electors, any of rwhom may object to the name of any person on the books, in which case the registrar shall appoint a time when he. together with the judges, shall hear and decide the ob jection, giving due notice to the voter objected to. But no elector shaal be prohibited from challenging the name of any nerson registered at any time other ithan that above specified. l The county board shall appoint two judges of election at each place, of holding elections. No person holding office under the United States or the State of North Carolina, except jus tices of the peace, shall be eligible. No registration shall 'be allowed on the day of election, except in case a person shall prove that he has become Qualified after the time for registra tion. The polls shall be open on the day of election from sun rise to sun set. In case of challenge, the registrar and Judges shall examine the challenged person, and administer the prescribed oath; but, even if he takes the Oafth. the registrar and judges may never the (less refuse to permit him to vote. They are authorized to administer necessary oaths to witnesses brought before them. A space of not more than fifty feet In every direction from the polls bali be kept clear of all persons except the judges, registrar and election bailiffs. and after the elector has entered no one except registrar or judges shall be permitted to comriunicate with him. In case of challenge, one challenger for each party shall be entitled to en ter the space during the hearing of the chllenge. The ballot may be deposited by the voter or. by one of the judges or the registrar. -1 The registrar and judges may ap point one or more bailiffs for each precinct to keep the peace, protect the voting place and enable all persons to vote when others are not voting. There shafll be ballot boxes for each class of officers to toe voted fori and each one shall be labelled in plain Ro maitt letters. Any ballot found in the wrong box shall not be counted un less the registrar and judges shall be satisfied that it was placed there by mistake. The registrar and judges shall an- c!rt one of (their number to attend the meeting of the Board of county Canvassers and the' members of the several precinct boards of, election so appointed shall constitute the Board of County Canvassers. The County Board of Canvassers shall meet on the second day afiter ev ery election, at the court house, except in the counties of Carteret, Hyde and Dare, where the meeting shall take place on the seventh day after the election. The Board shall then, in the presence of such electors as choose to attend, open and judicially determine the returns having power to send for papers and persons for examination Any person who snail fraudulently vote more than once, or shall Illegally vote, shall be guilty of an infamous crime, and Imprisoned not less than six nor more thna twelve months, or fined not less than $100 nor more than $500, and any registrar, ox clerk or copyist making any fraudulent entry shall be liable to the same penalty. It shall be a. misdemeanor to break up any election, deprive ithe officers of the ballot-boxes, disturb the registrar or judges in their duties or the State Board of Canvassers, behave in a dis orderly manner In the presence of said officers, while discharging their duties, treat with either meat or drink with intent .to influence an election, injure, threaten or attempt to intimidate any voter because of the vote he may or may nt have cast, bribe any elector or bet upon any election. The registrar shall receive three cents for each name registered in the new registration herein ordered, and thereafter in the revision of the regis tration book he shall receive One cent for each name copied from the origi nal registration book. Each chairman of the county board of elections shall be allowed one dollar per day for time asctuaHy employed, and five cents per mile for distance traveled, for mak ing the returns for Senators. Each sheriff shall receive thirty cents for each notice he is required to serve un- rof Klc to Tho. "Ron rri rwf Sfaiha Can. vassers may employ two clerkg at four dollars each per day, during the ses sion, of the board. The members of the county hoards Of elections shall each be allowed one dollar per day for each day actually employed. The com pensation of the registrars and judges shall not exceed one dollar each for holding the elections. The election bailiffs shall be entitled to one dollar per day each. The registrars shall re celve in addition one dollar per day for each Saturday during the period of registration. The governor and four members of the State Board of Elections shall constitute the Board of State Can vassers; but no member thereof shall take part in canvassing the votes for any office for which he himself is a candidate. This board shall" open the abstracts transmitted to the Secretary of State, eramine the returns from all the counties and conduct a public canvass in the hall of the House of Representatives. Any person registering in more than one election precinct, or in one in which he is not entitled to vote, or who shall falsely personate any regis tered voter, shall be guilty of an in famous crime, and punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisoned at hard labor, for a term not exceeding two years or both. Any person who shall give away in toxicatmg liquors, except uppn pre scriptlon of a practicing physician within five miles of the polling place. and within twelve hours next preced ing or succeeding any public election. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000. The persons elected as electors of the President of the United (States, shall assemble on the second Monday of January next after their election, at the capital in Raleigh and give their votes on behalf of the State for President and Vice President. They shall be allowed the same compensa tion as members of the General As sembly, and shall be entitled to the Same privileges. An Absurd Fnrsuit. Free trade arguments travel in a circle, like a dog chasing his own tail. Getting Tlieir ISeward. Commercial travelers throughout the country, according to the Troy Record, are all mailing the same report, all agreeing that trade was never better. and that ' orders are uniformly large. The Bry unites made a desperate effort to win over the commercial travelers during the last campaign, with direful prophecies of the evils that would be fall them in the event of the re-election of President McKinley. Most of the traveling men were too busy taking or ders from customers who had been made prosperous by Dingley law pro tection to pay much attention to the Bryanite enticements. Most of those who did take time to listen were alto gether too good business men not to see through the "tariff and trusts" fal lacy, and consequently Bryanite travel ing men were about as scarce as hen's teeth during the last campaign. The overwhelming majority of them voted for McKinley and protection, and they are now getting their reward. There are no rewer than 250,000 ha bitual criminals in the United States. CORPORA! IONS FORMED. All Sorts of Charters Granted by the Legislature. The last session of the North Caro lina legislature created a numer of new corporations. A full list of these is given below: RAILROADS CHARTERED. The following railroad and traction companies were incorporated: Dur ham Traction Company, Southport and WeLern Rsiiko.i Company, H'iOJon Railroad and Logging Company, Pied mont and Alleghany Railroad Com pany, Blue RDA&a and Atlantic Rail way Company, Duplin and Onslow Railway Company, Trent River and Cape Fear Railway and Logging Com pany, Rutherfordton Railroad Com pany, New River Valley Railroad Com paq, Jackson Springs Railroad Com pany, Marion and Norfchwesteirn Rail way Ociaupany, Cha-rlottie, Monro and Goliiiiiibiia Riaihreuid Ccip-amy, Tfcom ats'ville and Eldorado Railroad Goat pamy, Whito Oak River and Ons low Tramrsay boanpaiiiy,- Raleigh and Virginia Railway Company, South and Western Railway Company, Transyl vania RaihiCtad Company, Ru-3hrford-ton. Hicbory Nut Gao and AsbeviHe R'ziilway, Washi'instaiii and Plymouth Railroad Comparuy, Asheville and Waynes v II le Railway and Power Com paray of Buncombe County, Elkin and Allei'hany Railway and Power Cam pany, Preach Bread and Southern Railroud Compamy,Montana Road and Power Company, Soutfoport, Wilming tcia amd! Durham Radlroad Company, AtLamtic and Northwestern Raalway arJd Mlnin'ir Camp-any, K&rnersville Aiir Line Raiiiroad, Atlantic and North -weeteiia Railiod Company, The Green vill'a aod Vancoboro Railroad Com pany, Scotland Neck and Roanoke R'aiiLrioiaid1 Comfpany, Raleigh arid Cape Fear R. R. Company, San'teewaRafLlroad Oompuniy, Durham and Rail tffii Elec tric Railwaiy Com.paaiy. Wayne and Sampsom Railroad CannpafEiy,. Raleigh and- Virginia Railway Company, The Aberdeen and Gibson Ra&lrotaid Com pany. BANKS CHARTER.TD, The following- banks, banking, trust and insurance companies were Incor- pora'jsd : Hertford Bamki-mg Com-pany,- Surry Couty Loan and Trust Company, Bank of Hendersonvllle, Bamik of Olini'loai, Security, Life and Ajnmuiity Company, Bank of Mt. Olive, Bank or Fremont, Comimeraial Bank of Rutherfordton, Bank or RanJdle maai, Bank of Plymouth, tatesville Loan and Trust Corapamy, Bamik of MOntagamry, Bank of Rod Springs, Vance .Banking and Loan Compaaiy, Snow Hill Banking and Trust Com pony, FayeiUtevil-ie Saiviags aild Trust Company, Chapel Hill Investment Company, Robeson Countiy Lcian and Trust Company, the Trust Com pamy of North Carolina,, the Southern Loan and Savings Bank of Charlotte, N. C-; RiChmcad County Savings Bank, Charlolibe Courity Savings Bank, Chtar Ictte Savinigs Bank, Farmers' Bank ot Rockiaighaan., Bank of Dunn, Eastern Inismi'itniee Ccmpsaiy, Souilmiern Manu- faotuTers' Mutual Insurance Ocmpany, Groan-ville Ban!kinig and Trust Com pany, Farmers Bank of LaGranga, TQue Kindton Savings amd Trust Com pany, Gilliam and Lyon, Bankers, Toisnot Banking Co.mr.say, Bank cf Youngs vllle, Southern States Trust Company, Ba-nk of Bea.nf.ort, Citizens Saving Bank of Kinstctm, Bank of Benson, Bank cf Davie, Central Trust Company, Oililzejcts' Etaaik of Franklin, Salisbury Loan and Trust Company, Clayton Banking Company, Asheville Savings Imtiti'tuLiion, Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Edge combe county, Citizens ' Banking and Trust Ocmipany. TOWNS INCORPORATED. The following towns ware incor porated: Biscoe, Mcmgomcry county; Wlingaite, Union county; Mapleton, Her'lfiord countty; Rose Hill, Duplin county; East Spsncer, Rowtaa. connCy; Merry Oaks, Chai'.fham county; Pin nacle, Stokes county; Spencer, Rowan county; Bushnell, Swan couniiy; Rae- ford, ChHnborl'amd- and RobcsiCin coun ties: Fast Lumbertcin, Ro'beson coun ty; Pairkiron, Rlcbeson coucnty; Chock- eyote. Halifax county; Toxaway, Tranaylvan.'ia counity; Lawrence; An gler; JnQ3ville, YadMn cournty; Lan- dis; Woodside, Rowan couniiy; Swana Station, Mcicc-e and Hamallt counties; Olarkllion, Bladem county; Spe3d, Edge combe county; Mildred, Eidgecombe county; Macclesiield, Edigecombe county; Dover, Craven county; Staley, RJaiBcliolph county; Rutherford College, Burke county. SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES. The following ocieties, aesocialltlons and churdhias wiere incorporated: Uniii'Od Some and DaugMecs of Salem, Wii'minguon Ledge No. 532, B. P. O. Elks; Chamber 'of Commierca ait Wash ington. N. C: Thta Chiirloite Brother hood, Oasis TempCe, Ancient Arehdc Ordiar, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Trustees of Lincoln Hospital, Pied mont Gfun and Athletic Club, Uniited Amef loan Pre Will Baptist Denomi nation (dolored), WaneOon Aid ama Benevolenit Associaliion of NorLth Car- oiiitua, BTe;d Winners' Mutual Beme- volemt As2ociat!ion, Pamlico Lodge No. 73, K. of P.; Home Mission Commiit- tee of the Presbytery of French Broad, Ki'Btrel&s M. E Church, Ladies' Aid Sociaty of the M. E. Church South, of Mxn-freasiho.ro, Hertford couniiy, cer titin. chuches in Robeson county, churches in Snow Creek Town-shrlp, M'iliChiell oounfty; Cape Foar Free Will Daptfet Conference, Corinthian Lodge No. 230, A. F. anid A. M., of Rocky Mount; C&iroUn-a BenevOleat Acocia tion, Greenville Lodige No. 284, A. F. gind A. M. ; Unity Cemetery Associia- tiorf of Rocky Mount, Board of Trade of Aefheville, North Carolina Pcailtry AesoolaJLiion, J. M. Ray Camp of Oca- fadeirate va'.ierans, West Abbeville Cema-ery Acsocieiliion, Befa-vr Is!and Baptist chuTOh, Rockingham county. SOCIETIES AND CHURCHES. The" following named schools, acad emies, college and Inatltutea were in oonporated by spaojal acts: derveland Oornimerolal OoH eg, of Shelby, Cleve- land county; Wintterville High. School, Pitt counUy; Fruitland Inglftuite, Hea der an counity; Tuckaseegee High School, Jackson county; Yadkin Val ley Institute, Yadkin county; Free Will Baptist Theological Seminary; Oxford Seminary for Girls; Yadkin Valley Normal and Industrial Aoad eiaw for the colored race, i!3 Walkes- bciro; Sylvan School Hcaise, Ruffln Towinshiip, Ridhmond coumitjy; White Oak Academy, James Sprunt Insitfitute of Duplin counity, Peru School House in Anson county, Bcilgrade Instituted n' Onslow county. DISPENSARIES ESTABLISHED. Dispensaries were establiished in the fol'Lawing coun'taes and itowns: Towtn-e-j'p No. 1, Eidigeccmto county; Win ton, Hertford couni:-; MTzrfreesborO, Hertford oouni:.y;Mayodan, Rocking hiam oo-rcty; Ke-nly, Jcfemfcon county; Lucaima, WtLlscn county. SUNDRY CCMiPANIES INCOR PORATED. Companies of var'ious kinds were incorporated und&r the following nian&s: Eagle Hcee company i. , of Gieensbcoro; Goldstoro Oil Com pany, The Carolinia. Art Company, Hertford County Telephone Ccmpany, Valleyilown Cerrue-ifery in " Cherokee county, AfhevtEMe Wood Working Ocm pany, New River Develop memt of North CarciMna, Eliza-bsKIh Oiliy Water Compainy, Yadkin Flails Electric Com pany, Durham Ldghit and Power Com pany, French Bread Ponver Company, Central Power Company, North Caro linia Talc and Mining Company, Clin ton and. Dunn Telephone Company, Swicegood Toll Bridge Company, RowLainid Lumber Oomipany of Faison, Marion, Eorrnsvllle and Bakcosville Turmpike Compainy; Halifax and Northampton Development Company, Weetiern Carolina Power Company, Salisbury Light and Power Company, Weldon Bridge, Steamboat and Ferry Cfccnpaniy, Croatian development Com pany, Nortih State Minamtg Company, tm?ith field Fire Company. FREE-TRADE LEGISLATION. Its Invariable KfTect Has Been' to In crease Itritish Trade at Our Kipem. Figures recently compiled by the Bureau of Statistics show that the United States now stands at the head of the world's exporting nations. A quarter of a century ago the United States stood fourth, being surpassed not only by Great Britain and Ger many, bujt by France. One feature of the trade records for the past quar ter of a century is their showing of how the export trade in domestic pro duce declined under a Democratic tariff bill, and how it expanded when the Republican party was restored to power and put again in force the pol icy of protecting American products. Standing alone these figures might be explained by the free traders on the theory that it was a general return of prosperity to the whole world, which brought out an increased demand for American goods and thus swelled the export trade, and in explanation of the depression under Democratic ad ministration that the hard times then complained cf were also Avorld-wide in their effects. mo explanation is plausible, and might be difficult to refute exactly wen; it not ior certain otner ugurea which appear in the same report These figures show that as the Anier ican export trade in domestic produce declined under the maleficent influ ences of the Democratic tarff, iu al most precisely the same proportion the British export trade advanced, and further, that the instant the American export trade commenced to expand after the passage of the Dingley bil that instant the British export trade commenced" fall off. Jbrorn 1S02 to 1S93 ihe annual vol- nrne of the American export trade de clined ?115,494,900. From 1893 to 1890 the years when a Democratic admin istration was in power, the British export trade expanded $105,509,000 an nually. The immediate result of Dem ocratic success in a Presidential elec tion in the United States was a falling ott or the American export trade, which in four years amounted to an annual decline of upward of $100,000, 000 in amount. It was not a mere co incidence that during the same period of Democratic control of the machin ery of the Federal Government, and the existence of a Democratic tariff law, the exports of Great Britain ex panded annually almost in the precise proportion that the American exports declined. lAuie elm iuiiuer; xae expansion in the volume or American exports com menccd the Instant the Republican party took up control of the Federal administration, while the British ex port iraae mat instant received a de cided setback, from which it took some years to recover. The American ex port trade for 1S97 exceeded that for 1S90 by upward of $93,000,000; the British export trade for the same pe riod declined nearly $29,000,000 in value. From 1S97 to 1808 the Ameri can export trade expanded over $150, 000,000 more. During the same period of good times the British export trade declined another $4,000,000. At the close of Mr. Cleveland's administra tion the total volume of the British ex port trade exceeded that of the United States by upward of $182,000,000. In 1900, after three years of Republican tariff legislation, the exports of the United States were upward of $34,000, 000 greater than those of Great Brit ain. From these figures It Is clear that a considerable portion of the gain in the volume of exports from the United States has been at the expense of Great Britain, and it also appears suffi ciently clear that the Immediate effect of Democratic tariff legislation was to increase the volume of British trade at the expense of the United States. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. . . Owing to American competition the Northeastern Steel Works, of Middles boro, England, is unable to declare a dividend for the first time for sixteen years. I HIGHLY COMPLIMENTED North Carolina Called One of the Richest States in the Union." -' An agreeable. fast and very kind and complimentary allusion to the Old North State an contained in the fol lowing from the Charleston News and Courier: . "North Carolina is one of the richest States In the Union, and will make an exhibit at Charleston that will cost from $10,000 to $15,000. The exhibit is already nearly available, the State department of agriculture having . de voted for years a great deal of inteli gent attention to the establishment of a State museum in which is assembled specimens of nearly every mineral, wood, crop and manufactured product In the State.' Mr. Bruner, who has been engaged In the work of waking these collections for the last 20 years, and Professor Holmes, yrho en joy3 a national reputation in his special field, have already gone Into the work with energy and enthusiasm,' and promise that the North State will make a bril liant display at Charleston. The Gov ernor is heartily in sympathy with the enterprise, and the money for making the exhibit is available. Philadelphia and Baltimore and the Northern and Western States will find in the exhibit from North Carolina much to inform them as to the richness of the Southern field, which they will find it "to their interest to cultivate. We shall have to work very "hard if South Carolina is not to be beaten on its own eoll by other, and in some respects, the greater Ga.ro Una." Ma .' Martin's Defalcations. The discovery Is now made that Maj. W. H. Martin has stolen funds of the State Hospital, the Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Blind In stitution, and the Agricultural De partment. He says when first arrested that the stealings were from the peni tentiary alone. Now that the facts are known he confesses that he stole from the four other institutions and De partments above named, but says he stole from them only to pay up steal ings from the penitentiary. Nobody believes anything he says. The com mittee went out to the penitentiary to see Martin, and it was then he made the new confession. He declared he had not stelen from the( other asylums or school. The total amount stolen from the penitentiary appears to be $16,000. ' Tar Heel Notes, , The citizens of Back Creek have de cided to put in an electric light plant. Rev. E. A. Oshorn will move to Monroe and become pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal church. Congressman Kitchin, of the Fifth HotHnt will nflilt-paa .1ia fla,lpm lodea of Odd Fellows on the 5th anniversary May 6th. . " ; Orange Presbytery i3 in eesiorx at Graham. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. J. W. Goodman, of Hillsboro. The East Carolina railroad from Tar boro to Farmville will be completea by " the Fourth of July. It goe3 through a very rich country. Franklin, Macon county, had a fire last week, and the Episcopal school building was destroyed. Several near by buildings were saved only by the herois effort of neighbors, A special from Salisbury to the Char lotte Observer says: "Mr. J. S. Tatum, book-keeper at the Cool eemee Mills, has on foot a scheme to 'put a steam boat on the South Yadkin from Coolee mee Junction, on the North Carolina" Midland, to the mills, to carry freight and excursion parties. There Is already a home-made steamboat on the main stream, with headquarters at the toll bridge. It Is a flat-bottomed affair and was very popular with the Easter Mon day picknickers. The fact that the Yadkin is navigable by flat boats for fifty miles up stream has entered into the calculations of the street railway people in planning an excursion to the river.' . Chinese Indemnity, Pekin, By Cable. The committee of minister!? which Is considered China's financial resources, has reached tha conclusion, based upon what Informa tion is obstainable. that $3O0.,000,000 in gold can be raised without injuring China's resources. The examination by the committee into the subject Is thus far incomplete, and it will probably bo subsequently learned that other Chi nese resources for indemnities are available.1 The ministers openly express their desire thot the foreign troops leavo Pekin. They are seemingly as anxious for the departure as were the besieged ministers anxious for the arrival of tha troops. Fire in Wilmington. Waimdnglon, Special. -Fire did tea thousand dollars damage here Satur day morning in the Van Kemper block. It caught in the rear of an oysteir roasting place acid connnuni cal'cd to a storage warehouse cf the street railway company, also to the roar of Hardin's pharmacy, the stock of wfcich was damaged to a consid'er- ahle extent. The los3 was covered by insurance. Vice President of S. A. L. . v New York, Specials-James M. Barr was elected vice president and general manager of the Seaboard Air Line at a meeting of the directors In this city. The pool of the company's first mort gage bonds was dissolved and It was decided to retire $2.483,0C0 5 per cent. bonds on the Georgia & Alabama Rall- road on July 1, at on accrued interest. r