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- i ' iirti""r wm i r-v. Brief Glimpses of the General News The next Democratic convention of Virginia will be far smaller than the one which nominated the pres ent Governor. The Baltimore Sun fays it is re ported that Gen. W:de Hampton viil be retained as railroad commis sioner. Captain 1L W Rred, of Georgia, who was Tom Watson's right hand man dnring the late Presidential campaign, is now an advocate of gold, and has gone extensively into the mining. of that metal in Mexico. Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, "who has been quite sick, is improv ing Rev. Father B J. Kelly, of Sa "vauEah, vicar general of the diocese of Georgia, is confined to his room as the result of a painful accident sustained while superintending the dm sins of the middle altar of the ca hnlral. He fell from, the sttps ah. the b;ick of the altar. Mi?s Julia Penough, a deaf mute was struck by a train near Athens, Ga ; she was knocked from the track but was not seriously injured The region around Hamburg, Arkansas, was swept, by a cyclone. The Southern bicycle circuit is conducting a series of races at Atlanta. At the Washington camp, a negro -convict was whipped to death by a guard. Atlanta brick-layers are out on a strike. The Mississippi river is higher at Vicksburg, Miss , than has ever be fore been known All flood records are broken. Old planters say the overflow is the worst on record. Teresa Tai reno,tf greatest woman pianist o he time, yve a recital at Atlanta ;ist nirht. The losses or insurance companies at K-oxvil'p footnp $556,250. In the superior court at Macon, Cfa, I Poland Iied, the noted actor, is suing the Southern rail way, for dam age0 n ctiv d in a ra:!road accident. T k'ative commission to rr-Tis-. the constitution of West Vir ginia is in tc-sion at Charlestown, W. Va. Indicai '-ng of oil md coal have "been discovu 1 hi Harper's Ferrv, In the university town of Athens, Tenn., I-Vrry Wigglev, son; of the local commander ot the G. A. K., was married Mnoday to Gid Helms, a negress of low repute. The cere mony took plnce in the street, and the krot was tic d by a Justice of the P.ace while the pair stood mounted ou a'grods box. A large crowd bud g ithe'vd in Athens from the country t see a T liiig circus The ex c;'err:-iir h c;. u:e intense as the storv oi'th' m-.n i;;ge spread, and threats o vii-'j- vi:v v.-(-IP. heard on every side. II 5 -.'1' c rtdnlv be tarred if caught. Ai Clinton, S. C, yesterday engine No. 532 on the southbound freight t'ain on she Seaboard Air Line went down an embankment turnirg hot torn sid e u p. X o on e w as hurt, b i t is consid'raolv dam -.ccident was dn 'o rot a;.d. Th t n tics. A drunken man tried to burn the V.v iv . G;i.. i ii 1 hv set tins: fire to hia c-11. Jatnes Fietc! -r. ih0. to be a sur-vivi-i- of (in- ehari-e of the Light Brig .de at. BiUkKvn. died at Har risbuig. Pa. lie was over sixty ypars -dd. Fletcher was afterwards with Go-dun in the Soudan. damaged the dwell , Ohio, occupied? by u relative of Pre.:i :v.'kson, and destroyed 'ho df ceased Presi mg m . n - 1 1 J nme? J tlent A; V. i many reli.-f. dent. Am "s" .re n the o'd - j. lie them was Gen. Jack - " '"he wheels of which s i timb'T taken from :;fte Constitution. passed the G re iter Hrif.r over Mayor a vote of 106 to ?yi New York otrc'ng s v if, i Ibis Is dis oeti up take p'-.-i.s : :": ethhr',. . . ;.. :. .-dh-r propo.-es two 'he Goernment to f. he Carnegie and r pte factories un . t-n.mt nt domain, t the ai m or plate 'iy three Lew battle- of Macedonia cgp i important strategic ni'ed Turkish posts '-rkngia. They are i' the communications "re s The raulers' r the .' b: arid to fr puzzle and marider3. worry ekett, of NewpHa vromica by mistake. bicycle and rode iched a -doctor in treatment that saved U Mcllvaine, for Brick Church, has n the New York will enter the Epi3- : issues a proclama n all citizens to di ant Day, April 27, o do the same, shop keepers have ung the outcome of . the war on them inaugurated hut week. It is learned that ex-Postmaster General William L. Wilson, President-elect of Washington and Lee University; has engaged to write a biography of President James Madi son. ' Many documents bearing the handwriting of George Washington, William Penu, and King George have been unearthed by workmen employed in remodelling the West moreland county Court House, Pa. In Arizona the errand festival of Yuma wound up with wild west sports and Spanish bull fight. Charles O. Scull, general passen ger agent of the B. and 0. R. 11 tendered his resignation, to take ef fect Thursday. The inauguration of a new line of steamers from Jamaica to JbJalti more is expected to cause a cut rate war in the sale of bananas Drs. J. W. Pendergrast and O. V. Limerick, health officers of Cincin nati, Onio, have been arrested on charges of blackmail. O.Ver COO convicts were safely transferred between the prisons 'at at Michigan City and Jeffersouville, Ind. Sophie Trauhmann, the singer, was married to Charles Patzowsky, in New York February 15. The marriage has just been announced. Governor Ramsdell, of New Hamp shire, has appointed April 22 as a day of fasting and prayer. The new cave at Cjistalia, O , is believed to connect with Perry's cave, at Put in Bay, and also with Flat Rock cave, which would make it extend over an area greater than the Mammoth cave. A reception will be given April 19 by the members of the section of eeology and mineralogy of the New York Academy of Sciences for Sir Archibald Geikie, director general of her Majesty's Geological Survey of Great Britain. President John R Lor don has been appointed receiver of the Globe cotton mill at Rock Hill. The as sets are $188,000; liabilities, $119 -000. The municipal elections in New Jersey yesterday and the day before show Democratic gains. Arthur bewail, late Democratic candidate tor Vice President, said in an interview that the recent Demo cratic successes in ci'y elections were due to local causes. Governor Bloxham, of Florida, has called a national fisheries con gre?s to meet at Tampa, January 19, I Southern women in New York have organized a chapter of Diuyh ters of the Confederacy with Mrs. Jtfferson Davis us honorary presi dent. Mrs. George L. Harrison represents North Carolina on tin advisory board. Sunday whs the seventy fifth birth day of tne Rev. Dr. Edward Evere Hale. Three hundred peitons greeted him in the parlors of hi--church and presented him with a acknge containing seventy five gold dollars, commemorative of his fct-venty-five years. Forty-seven women graduated in one class from a New York law s bool this week. Mine. Calve has been restored to health, and tonight will sirg "Carmen" in the Metropolitan Ooeia House, New York. Saturday afce: noon, for the farewell matinee, .she will repeat her famous Margiv rite, in Gounod's "Faust," with Jean and Edouard de Reszke in the caat. Sever al Charlotte people will be present at this far? well performance. The Greco-Turkish crisis has produced a rupture in the Turkish legation at Washington. Norighian Eil'endi, Fi-sc Secretary of Legation, is going home and will probably leave the Turkish diplomatic service. The battle ship Oregon was dam aged by running ashore in Puget nd. Andrew de Glodia, V ce Conui lor tne itaiian yovernnien t in Si governmeht Paul. Minn, committed Suicide bv taking a- doce ot isulpbunc add. Mrs. U S. Grant has written a bo k. I'he Juu.rna.1 says: "Ic is not, so much the chronicle of thy wife of a great American soldier and states nirtn as it is that of - a tender, wo UKiiily heart telling its story of the lif ltd with the man she loved all t e years of her life. It is the home siory of General and Mrs. Grant as it has never been told before." I. is claimed that Mgr. Satolli, former Papal Ablegate it this coun try, is planning to cucceed Leo as Pope The New York Journal says there will probably be no grand opera at the Metropolitan opera house next yaar, as Abbev, Senoeffei and Grau 1 do uot see their way clear to produce a series of performances next season. Quiutiu Bandera, the well known I insurgent leader, has passed the Tub Btet Medicine Ever I'ut In a Kottie for Chills and Fever. Mr. H. II. Faver, Yorkiowu, Ark., write?: lcame herewith nay wi e and five child. eti. I he tiistyear my tam ly wire all own with chills and fever. I tr ed all the -nownrrme-dit-s without succes . until I got Hughes' 1. mc ; which hds cured them emiiely 1 hve Kept the me cii.e in the house tver smce. mig-bes oaic is the bes meaiuii.e eveui in a i,ottle for chills and lbT.r.' bold v Irugjriut8. ft t military line across the Province of Puerto Principe, Cuba, from Jucare to Moron and the island of Turigu ano, known as "the Trocha." The insurgents succeeded in passing through the swamp lands between the islands and Moron. President D wight, of Yale, says he will not resign. At the Jefferson day banquet in Washington William J. Bryan de clared that Mr. Cleveland was more than any other man responsible for the creation of the monetary isssue. and said the position taken by the Democratic party in 1896 would not be surrendered. Vice President Hobart's home town of Paterson, which gave him 3,500 majority in November, elected a Democratic mayor by 1,500 ma jority. Democrats carried Jersey City and made gams in many paceF. In receivership "proceedings con nected with the failed Globe Savings Bank of Chicago charges were made involving former Got. Altgeld. President Spalding was accused of hypothecating the securities of the bank and of the University of Illi nois, and using the proceeds. His typewriter returned stocks worth $61,000 to the receiver. Agents of the trusts are in Albany, and there are rumors that desperate and disreputable means willbe used to defeat the Lexow anti trust bills The.question of the - constitution ality of Senator Wolcott's appoint ment to the Monetary Commission has been raised by Washington law yers and politicians. In New York seven alleged mock auction swindlers were arrested and warrants are out formany more. There are said to be 200 in ihe city and a school for the instruction of fraudulent bidders. Pugilist Fitzsimmons arrived in New York and was greeted by a crowd that packed the downtown streets and blockaded traffic. He said he will fight no one for a vear. Sixteen Cuban women from the town of San Francisco de Pauln, in Havana province, Cuba, have been thrust into the Recojidasor House of Detention for disreputable women in Havana. They all belong to families of the highest respectabili ty. On their way to the prison thev were insulted by the soldiers, and one of them,4$irora Veh z, who at tempted to protest, was knocked down by a blow with a ride. Advices from Epirus says . the Turks are laying the country with fire and sword. The reported offer of the United States government to intervene j amicably in Cuba is favorably com- ! merited upon at Havana. ! Secretarv Sherman has sent a note to the government j)f Great Britain j urging that the indiscriminate ! butchery of seals in Alaska waters j be stopped immediately. I The Honduras syndicate, compos ! ed of capitalists ho live in the ! United Sfate has received sweej)ii!g ; concessions. A dispatch frnm Trikhnla, Greece, last nignt a.-.- ; f insurgent band -have returned :.. (ireek territorv. Captain-General Weyler, on a- ' riving at Sancti Spiritus, . Qub:, iearned that the insurgents had crossed the trocha. lie ordered pursuit. American and French fishing ves sels have been refused bait at Sr John's for the Newfoundland Jiaukcs fisheries. It is reported from Canea that the Cretans recently imported a Turkish non commissioned officer whom thev had captured. United States Minister McKenzie has left Lima, Peru, for the United States Yellow fever has broken out at Panama. Tile London Daily Telegraph has a despatch from Vienna saying that the Austrian Government has be-n informed that the United States de clines to recognize the blockade of Crete. The Salisbury World says: "The Southern will shortly have a new wrecking train of an improved pa tern. The car will be provided with buuks and other modern para phernelia and will in every way be much better fitted for wrecking work than the ear used at present. The cir will be stationed at Salis bury." A nine year-old negro boy who is mute and insane, claws, tears things, roots and grunts Jike a hog was car ried yesterday from Concord to the Goldsboro asylum. A VTirginia colored preacher nam ed Nelson ha3 been convicted of murder A discharged negro farm hand criminally assaulted Mrs. Ida liiedel, of Fairfax county, VaM yes terday. George W. Kyle, a prominent cit izen of Buckingham county, Va, fell from his horse and broke his neck. Richmond and Danville are to play a match game in Richmond Monday. A bust of EJgar Allen Poe is to be placed in the new library of the University of Virgin ia. Mr. Joseph H. Sands has resigned . e office of general manager of the Norfolfe and VTestern. Wm. W. Wysor, of Lynchburg, conQul to Cadiz, is dead. There is renewed talk of ex-Sec-retary Carlisle as a compromise can didate for United States Senator to Kentucky. "The giant lobster 'Fitzsimmons," said to have been 100 year3 old, died in the Castle Garden Aquarium, New Yrork. Enormous flocks of wild geese flew so low in passing over Beloit, Kan., that many were knocked down by pole3 by the villagers. Senator Mason has proposed a $750,000 appropriation for the Pans Exposition of 1900. Camilla D'Arville is alarmingly ill at the Auditorium Hotel, Chi cago. Sir Archibald Sreikie, director general of the geological surveys of Great Britain and Ireland, is ex pected to arrive in Baltimore Tues day to deliver a course of lectures on The Founders of Geology" at the Johns Hopkins University. Just after a passenger train left the village limits of Johnsburg, N. Y., a trainman saw the body of a man lying on a pile of burning ties near the railroad tracks. The train was stopped, and trainmen ran back to the spot and rescued him. His clothing was iu flames, aud his entire body was burned. The men he was tramping with determined to murder him, and bound him and threw him on the pile of burning ties. The Franklin Institute scheme of a textile exposition at Philadelphia has been abandoned. One-half of the city of Argentine, Kas.. changed hands in-a real estate deal a few days ago. Important discoveries of gold have been made at White Plains, N. Y. Kansas bribery inquisitors have found a law to compel witnesses to testifv. A Birmingham (Ala ) boy of 17 aud a girl of 13 years ran away and were married. Sangnilly says that he came South on account of his health A sofa, a revolutionary relic, upon which Lafayette rested, was destroy ed in the Post Road Tavern firm. Experiments in the Pasteurizing of butter for the foreign tr;d are beiug carried on by the Agricultural Department. Banker Spalding of Chicago fail ed to apppar to acquit himself before the Board of Trustees of the Uni versity of Illinois The threatened Canadian export duty on saw logs is driving Ameri can lumbermen to establish plants in Canada. Governor Culberson, of Texas, has vetoed a bill to p:ry $"25,000 for the San Jacinto battleground, near Houston. Several thousand rr.zor back hos imported iuto Iowa from Texas dur inir the past vear have died from m kidney worm. South Dakota's State Treasurer, W. V. Taylor, (who stole $350,000) has been released from the peniten tiary aftyr IS months imprisonment. KiTzimmons, the pugilistic cham pion, his an attack of muscular rheumatism. The League base-ball seasou . be gins this week with a few scatterii -opening ga mes. Milwaukee brewers' troubles have been adjusted. " As a result of exposure manv flood refugees have fallen victims to malaria. Legislative committees, represent ing Minnesota, Michigan, Wiscon sin and Illinois, will meet to devise uniform game laws. Mills in which Secretary Bliss are interested have been compelled to close down. They couldn't stand M' Kinh-y's "prosperity " Japan's navy, according to the St dames Gazette, will be a tough prop option for the United States to combat iu case of a rupture between tne two countries. Richard Uoever, four years old. of UoBken, was reported dying of a fractured skull. He said he was bound i by playmates and thrown over a fence. The firm of O. II. Sampson & Co.; dry goods commission merchants of New York, which handled the prod uct of many mills, has dissolved partnership. Under the will of Mrs. Maria L. Vanderilt, St, Bartholomew's Prot estant Episcopal Church, 'of New York, receive $250,000. Jobu H. Jordaz, twenty-one years old, of Hohoken, N. J., went crazy from smoking cigarettes. He smok ed 80 to 100 of the ctffin tacks a day. Iu Boston it ig proposed to make Faneuil Hall, the famous old histor ical structure, fire proof, the interior being practically made hew. Frank Baker, a camp cook for a gmg of workmen on the Pittsburg, Vnr Ovtr Firry Yfnrs M8. Winslow'8 Soothfnir Svrnn tor ow tlity year by millions of mothers tor ihei children while leethinjr, with perfect sue ess It SMOthes i he child, s f tens the trums allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is ihe SfM.rTiJS Diarrnt- " ill relieve the poor little sufferer, immediately. Sold by JLruKifit in e ery part of the world. Twenty five iits h "utile, lie sure and sk fofMrs. kind! Soothlnjf oyrup." and take no otker Bessemer' and Lake Erie Railroad, Pa., died of delirium tremens super induced by overindulgence in lemon extract. Baker sent his assistant to the storehouse Wednesday to get one dozen bottles of lemon extract. He drank the contents of eleven bottles and died the next morning. Garter Harrison, the hew mayor of Chicago, has taken his seat, and en tered upon his administration. The damage by the Moresque fire in New Orleans amounts- to ,$750, 000. . ! m ' After four years search, Million aire Mohler of Minneapolis located his divorced wife, who had fled with their young son in defiance of the law. .The boy will be taken1 by the father. f It was recently found that Repre sentative Bricker, of Michigan, is in very much the same predicament as Gov. Pingree was. Bricker is mayor of Belding and at the same time represents his district in the Legis lature. Ninety-one Chinamen have reach ed Montreal en route to Cuba to work on the sugar plantations. Jesse Evans, colored, who at tempted to misuse little white girls at Edwards, Miss., ,was shot to death by a posse Theodore Roosevelt says he had declined to speak at the Nashville Exposition before those Tennessee women kicked. inomas M. I5ram, convictea oi ii.. 1 -C -i.' . -vti cue muruer ui auiam ixasn auu Rpnfenned to die on June 18. will he tfemporarilv respited. - - Presbyterian ministers in session at Chicaeo, III., are discussing methods for a closer union of all branches of that religious body. Wells Finch, a flour broker, acci dentally shot and killed himself in his New York office while cleaning a revolver. While three men were repairing the tower of a church at Salome, Quebec, the scaffoling broke, and Trepanier St. Benoit was kilkd and the others were fatally hurt The Uontmeutal nre insurance Co., of New Vork has withdrawn from ''all combinations with other companies to regulate rates. Two professors of Amherst Col lege, "Mass , were fined for riding a bicycle on the side-walk. There died Thursday at Clark Bros.' ranch at Chateau, Setoncoun tv, northern Montana, Baron Max von Grotthus, a Russian nobleman and a former Lieutenant in the Czar's Guard, who left Kussia in 1875 on account of having lived at too fast a pace. Frank Johnson, a Kansas City thi' f, has a fad for stealing ede tools, and nearly enough to sfo.ka J i rare store were found in nis hardw lougings Ernst liidgeway, one of the four young' men who on Thanksgiving nmht last held Up and attempted to rob acar.full of peopleou the Inde pendence electric line, in Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced to one year m the county jail. Representatives of the Republican league have called on the Pn-sident to ure a modification of Mr. Cleve land s civil service extensions that would throw about 40,000 offices open to political appointment. They 1 they received great encourage ment trom Mr. Mcliinley. In a vote completed Thursday the Knights of Labor adopted n. free silver amendment to" their declara tou of prieiples by a pfactically u i niimous vore. The new $6 000 Presbyterian church at Gaffney, S C, is ntanng comp'eMo Those who are troubled with rheu matism should try a few applications ot Ubamberlain s ram Balm, rubbing me parts vigorously at each applica tion. If that does not bring relief dampen a piece ot tUnnel with Pain Balm and bind it on oyer the seat of pain and prompt relief will surelv follow. For s;iltf by S. L. A!e,xande' & Co. LADIES arf what we an offering" every day o oi.iu-iuues j ei use oners, j.uc ours seldom or nearer. We make so many of fers with o ir eudlcs vari ty .f footwear tha' buyers-, have the wide-t r, om f r choice and can u t themselves to n nice ty. Our sto-k of Ladies' Fine Nho-s includes a fine d splay of stvles ranffino la price fr m 5 ) to 'Ynn teahze hnW cheap .he-e goods are unless you see them, aud yu can't appreciate how fine they ar un il you have exam ined them ca efullv. This is the'most excellent and complete assortment of Ladies footwear we have ever a own A large stock Urabre lasr. Trunks Va hses and Handings lwa s on hand A. E. HANK IN" & BRo! - lO South Tryoa St. In Feeble Health Unable to do Her Work- N lerv0U3 and Tired-All These Trouhu Cured by Hood's Sarsaparia " For the past four years I have been i feeble health, and lor two years pas owing to ehange of climate, I have been able to do my work. I was nervoUs and had a tired feeling and was under the treatment of physicians, but I continuijjv grew worse.. My husband insisted onmv trying Hood's Sarsaparilla and I tjnaU consented, and began taking it 1 he first of June, 1896. The first bottle did me So much good that I continued with it, an,j after taking four bottles and one fotueo Hood's Pills I an- able to do my ?:ct ana cne ureu, ucivuun ivcuug is entirely cured." MRS. G. N. Hosea, Suwanee.Qa, If Turifler. , Sold by all druggists. $1 ; six for Hood Pills llckHd1 Still in the Race, I am still in the race for the PAIXT and GLASS business arid am gatiag there with both feet. I have the best goods at the lowest prices, and these are winning features. If voU want a picture framed eh J " - V , . .. . - mo . I , . u you wans a goou larniinre polish I m upP.y WdUls- J. J. EZELL, 21 N. College street. ervous yebility, OR. E. G. WEST'S NERVE AND BRA!M TREATMEN1 THE 0R1G1WAL, ALL 0TKERS i?;l!TATI0NS, Iseoldunder positive Wrttt-it is-iraiitee, by authorized asjentf only, to Memory Dizzmoss. W akefnliie88, 1'its, Hyei;-' a. Quick, ness, Night Losses, Evil Dreams, Lacs of f'oiitt. deuce. Nervouanesa. Lassitude, ail Drains. Youth. ful Errors, or Excessive Uee of Tobacco, Opium, or Liquor, frich leads to Misery, Consiircption, xnaamiy ana ueaxn. az etore or oy man, 51 a box; six for $5; with written eimrantee c cure or refund money. Sample pack age. contaiuing five days' treatment, with ful instructions, 25 cents. One sample only sold to each person. At store or by mail. SSRed Label Specia! Extra Strength- 5Vir Tmnn(pnpv Trfsa iT.fl Power, Lost Manhood, Sterility or Uarrennens., 23vk$1 s-sis for ?5, Yitl"if" tvfl written ai'ante,? tocurin sodars At etorof 3 DR. S. L., ALEXANDER & CO., Drnggists ar d Sole Agents. harlotte, N. C. utm 1 win 1 an ' ii' mi mi'iw (I FOR I vflJER SEX This remedy being in jected directly to tlifl seat of those diseases of the Genito-I'rinarj Organs, re qn ires no change of diet. Cure guaranteed in 1 to 3 days. Small plain paoK- GURS as:e. by mail, S1.00 Sold only y DR. S. L ALEXANDER & CO., Druggists and ole Agetitn. Charlotte, N. C. LADBESdoy-jckci DR. FELIX LE BSUN'S SteellPesnyroyal Pills 1 rKiliNCH, s.-it"o and reliable cure on f .a -market. Price, sent by mail. Genuine sold only by DR. S. L. ALEXANDER & CO., Druggists ancl Sole Aeents. Charlotte S. C. FARMERS Bring us Yoiir Hides our Tannery is now ready for Them. If you need anything in our line come and see us. Harness, Colars, Saddles, Whips, Bicycles, In fact everything in our line will be found in our new home on Fourth Street. HARNESS CO. -2 j c " " 1 a s
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