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T H E S TA HOARD. Till Hill DM. LARGEST PAPER -PUBLISHED IX CONCORD. T AND ARB. The WE DO ALL KINDS OF job -woirik: IN THE XEA TES T MA XX EE -AND AT run LOWEST JUTES- THE LEAF. FUOM THE H.HEKRE. TUAXSLATED FBEXBH BY Torsi from thy ttortn, poor.withercd leaf. Where fjoost thou? Thy life is bi iff "I uothiii! know; the storm-swept ouk Where oucn I hung at last is broke. Tossed on tin- breast of 1 est less gale From woo.l to plain, fiom mount to dale, I go where blows th' inconstant wind Nor shu, nor lin I my fate unkind. I Ko where all thins fair uiut.t come, Where thou, too, soon mest find thy home, Theie ihe lose leaf will see its grave And there the b:iys lhat poet wave." t'ir-r ni.TcUoii't. State Chronicle. Some dayd ago we had occasion to wrUe to a North Carolina young man who is al Johns Hopkins Uni versity We addressed the letter to him at "Johns Hopkins University." He sot the letter after souie delay and w rites : "Maybe you designed a delicate compliment such as Johnson and Burke. I believe, exchanged. Burke directed a letter to 'Samuel Johnson, England.' And Johnson, not to be outdone, replied: "Edmund Burke, World.' " Speaking of directions on a letter we read a few days ago that a party in Michigan wrote a letter to W. L. Douglass, the famous shoe man at Brockton, Mais. lie put his letter in an envelope, sealed it, and pasied on it as ilie sole directiou a picture of ir. Douglass. He is so well kno.v, by reason o: h;s extensive adu is-ing. in which he always pub lishes his picture, tnat the letter went us safe'y iwid in ickly as if it had "out .lined the name, postofiice, a. id pu m be of street. Hp Tlhtnok HIM Man. A.i eciti.g little episode took plave a few evenings siuee in the g ill room at the Shoreham, whe e tli ee yooug fellows e.ite-'ed, aud af ter quietly seating themselves, pro ceeded to "give their oseVs, says the Washington Critic. Near by sat two promising yo.ig scions of Sena torial families, who evinced an un seeni'iigly amusement over t'ie Titan hi'cd locks of one of the new-comers. Exasperated li.iaily beyoad all en durance !y a very pointed remark on "ci'iot lops," the young athlete rose in. d, crossing to the adjoin'ng t.iMi- requested the Senator's son to repeat his remark?, with which r fj u est he UMt'iiiii kingly replied. A moment later and he spu.i with tlie vi b.e ty of a cannon ball across tbe r.ia. ble floo.. landing in a heap under a t..l le, from which ignomin ijih po-'tioii he was gathered up and hurried f o n the room by several Wi' ic.s. Voi'ng Titian locks then ivsi'mid I'.s s:t, mnarkiug to sev er.' waiters who h;id prepared to ekcc '. -li a! 5o that, lie had co-re into the grill r:jui as a geitlevan and p opo-nd i-j icive it i'i tiie same ca pac: noi ''a ibat a p'ize-fighter. A CJrU ou n Hum. Salisbury lie; aid. bon.'etiiiuu- nit her lenuvkaole was witnes-eu ou our street 'eSi, . tnrday A bo t'e of o'i'iu v idl uyioa t e pave-ije'ic iii iiot of Smitl'de;-' 'iVv'or & Co. sio-v, bi.eal.ivg to pieces a.id spi:iirg the liqaor. Sone of tins collected in a small hollow i ) o.ie of the ioiie.1, and p etty soo l a English sparrow Hew dowd am1 co ineiiced to drink. The spa". ow bteuied to ivlU'i the brandy aid too-v Si've al swa'lows of it. Fin'sh in j h;s d'i.i'gli. he attempted! to fy aay, but the b.andy had commenc ed 10 get in its worK and the bi u con Id only flutter around ;n an iu bec:,e ma i ur. Parties pas3:o along tiucht'd the sparrow but it was soon to drunk that it could not not move. Mr. Smithdeal took the bird into iis store where it regained fur so. ue fuse i i a stupified condi tio, and when linaHy turned loo. e itwi'Ssod link that it could only lly a very s'io t (Ustance at a t'me. Quiie a iiiinibcr of our citizens saw the b d while it wns intoxicated. A e have he.ird of c.ires of birds get ting dnink Ik-fore, bi't H'is is the first c:;so we have eve- known. Col. Uowland, the able l.V-presen i -live of the litn District, Ins intn -du 'ed a bi'l provu-iiig for the col lection of an iiieo'iie i k;:, that suits oir no'Jon !o ii dot, if it, could be passed. Bi't there is no likel;hood of the i'baiKtoiii.ient of the present systio! c t.ixatiu i and the restora tioit of the income ta.. Co!. Kow i:i 'irs proj ..vition is to lay taxes ou i i.e. .mes as i dlow: "i om tb Miousand to teu thon- E.u i dol'ti s, two ;er centum there of; from thousand to twenty five i loa-.f'a :'(na'?, i0,ir per ccoruni tlu-eor; ;n.n twerty.five thoasand to fifty thousand dollar?, six per cv -trm thereof: from fifty thousand to one henure.I thousand dollars (.,. i,t ,v.r ct iitnm' tliereor, and on all siicli liieoiims anioiiiMiiiff to over one in: n-'-eilt I'O.isa n uo-'iurs. feci rer Cc.it a in tliereoiV T!,rs would make the men who have v:' ,t we-dtli p.y ihe-;T propor tio uue pai t of the taxes; as it is now tli-v.ny bat little mo;e th'.-iu the a-e -..'.I' ; .'.!. Oct o' thei.Jr nr. ph.B tibu h'h ce thy should pay greater proportion. v VOL. III. NO. 8. Ihe Cont of ElevBtoin. National Economist. A correspondent of the Rural World, E. W. K., writes from H'g- ginsville, Mo., as follows: It cost $7,500 to build an elevalor with a storage capacity of 50,000 bushels. Such an elevator wor'd elevate about 1,000 bushels per hour or clean 500 bushels per hour; of onrie the cleaning capacity cau be easily made 1,000 bushed, tje saire as the elevati.ig. The above in cludes an engine and eve.y.lr ig complete, aud by adding $7,000 more the slorage capacity cai be aad-y increased 50,( 00 busheU, thus mr -iog the total c inaeily of sto -e 100,000 bushels, aud at a total co t of $13,500. The eypeose of operat ing such an eleva 0", if run oi eco nomical piinc'ples snonldnut exceed $1,500 per annum, or pay li ceits per bushei. This includes every thing, even icsu.r.oce, which need not need not be excessive. Ttie profits of an elevator f om one source are this: Du-iugthe moii-'s f July a-id Augusi (la th:s teclic, Central Mifesoui-:) tno-th: cj of t. graiu (wheat) is t a-resli u i Dm t field, or out of the shoe ;r a d brought directly ;o na le.. T- cousequeoce is that the g-T'n bi;v, new and soft, it does noc g.Vt'e No. 3, thus losing from 4J to 5 cei; . per bushel ii g--ad:ng, or whatever difference there is betwee i No' 2 a'ld 3. and sometimes een N . 4. Here is oue sou ce of p ofit t'-al would be sr.ved were the w'.-rj stored in an elevalor un::l at le . this difference in the grade could be saved. From the above es.-ni!uj, wbch seems to be a fa'r ce. the io-. f building the proposed eub-Mt warehouses can te m-. The entire amount of all ki.'ds oJ t eV? produced ii the Lra'..eu Sia.e? o 18S9, may be put r.t 3,400.000,000 bushels,, the la "est i i the h.s-o y of the couutrv. Of th s umou there was wheal;, 490,500,000 bu0h tls; oats, 751,5''.5,000 bushe-s; co n -2,112,892,000 bushels. The exp ris of all ki'ids of gra a for the 6.oie year was about 210,000,000 bj&bels. Of this amount there was of whet aud flour 8S.C22.4G2 busbe's; r.. i and co'-n meul 70,241,070 bnbh's. The -res;t bulk of the grrin pro duced in ln;s country wt3 therefore consumed at home, aid by far the largest pat of the coarse grr iu mus:-. have bee-i fed to stock on tho fa. m. Brad si reels' reporis from more th.1 1 1,000 different points East of the l.'ockv Mounta'iis show totr.l anoa.i'; of grain ii stoe Febru-y 10th to be 89,684,000 bnshi Is. The toial amotnt of wheat in slo e md afloat for the same time i i the enli v world wa only 105,533. 415 bjs'iel3. W'tti this da.L. ap proxiu'aie Ci'lcuhnb n can be n?; de of the '.liable amount of g . i that would be warehoused ai any one time. If the present aTount or grain ia & o e, eay 90,000,000 bush els, is ino,e.ved to 270,000,000 be bb els or three t'mc3 the aTOint ac tually in 8Ure, it p obtibly would be an ouJs:de figure, fo" the numlxr bushels that would be reqwl cd to warehouse tit a ?y"o le time, at leat for the pveceDt. Tee cost o" buil-j-ing good and sufficient warehouses to store this amount of grain at the estimate quoted above, 15 cent per bushel storage capacity, would be but $40,500,000. The cotton crop of 1889 is given at 6,92S,290 bale"'. i cost of build' pg coUo.i ware houses is estimated at $1 per bale storage capacity. If the whole crop is taken irto the calculation it would amount to $G,93S,290. wb:c'i would build thobe for tobtcco also. If these figures are correct the en tire cost of building the recesv.ry warehouses for sub-treasury nr posea would amount to only $47,500 000 in round numbers. Certainly $50,000,000 would warehouee all the g 'al.i, cotlon and tobacco cc luem plated in the tub treasnry plan, and likely to dema id storagjataiy oie period for Borne time to come. In this calculation the number of warehouses is net considered, but the whole amount to be stored is provided for. The ex pense of the undertaking cai not be urged, therefore, as an objecfo:. There is to-day in the XJhited States treasury $25,000,000 of miner coin, classed as unavailable assets, for the payment of any Government debt. The National Economist will take this sum and build half theie warehouses, and use no other kind of money. The mechanics of this country will not stand on the size of the coins; it is the amount that is doing the mischief. The above is a fair statement of the cost of the warehouses, &nd it is hoped that the a'fri'i - ds of the sub-lreaaury plan I will read it caret oily. Tbe I.nte t'ol. Julian Allen. Portland (Me.) Transcript. Col. Julian Allen, who died at Statesville, N. C, a few days ago, had a rather romantic personal Vs tory. His shr.y is of infe.est, as showing au instirce of g eat berfii conferred upon our cor ?rry by i-he unselfish palrioMsai of a ma i of fo -eign birth, who ea-'ly in lre mde his home among us. He was boru in Toland of a noble family, and, wh'le being educated iu a Pol-sh uaive -si-ty, joined in some revolutionary movement that rendered him liable to be sent to Siberia. Being warned that such wa: to be his fate, he fled by night, and succeeded after much difficulty in reaching England. IDs younger brother, implicated in the same movement, was less fortunate. He was sent fo Siberia, a mere boy, and for years suffered the terrible fate of a tortured political exile. Julian came to America, obia;."ed employment in New York, and in a few years was a wealthy n-erchant, doing a wholesale business in tobac co. His name was Alle.iski. In the ardor of his allection for the cbunt -y that had befrieodeu him, be dropped the ski, and became kucAvi as J ulian Allen. He marred a Td:ss Ilus-ey, of Portsmouth, who is of the Tani'ly of John G. Wlrtt'er's nr other. Taking great interest i.i pol;i?cs, he was at one time put in nomination by the Republicans for the mayoral ty of BrooUy. At the b enk ig out of our war he raised a re :enl, one of tbe first of the New Yok reg"meiits,.ai)d was comnv-sioned its colonel." He was noanded io. the first ba.tle of Bull Tan. IToon h:J reoove y he wot o En 0;ie wh?.e he rendered i rno 'hot Le v'ce. espe cially ia Aosi a a id Ge' ii:"iy, ia cbao'ng the t'de of oy lion that was sei.t:ng ar-st the Northe n cause iu con t c'rcles. He rece'vee the special thanks of Ab abani IA i coln for Miis service. P.e&'dent Li i colu aod John G. Whitt'ev made ie sonal appeals to the C:'a'' of Russia for the releie of Col. A Pen's broth er and I hey were successful. Tlrs brother, who had giveu up all hope of leav'ng Sibe-'a alive, sui-deu'v foud himself a free man, ra-re to this count'-y, was natui' lized, ad entered upon his dut'es a? a c'tizei with all the ardor and en tl:usla.sj: that has characterized Ju Tan's course He was given a government pos:i;oa in one of the territories. Col. Allen, just before tbe war, assisted Helper in compiling that remarkable wo k, 'The Impending Cr'sis." Allen ateo wrote a book in regard to the tyranny of Russ'a iu Poland, in which the terrible story of his brother's suffer ings is (old. Through Helper's in fluence he became interested iu North Carolina where he bought a fine old estate in the vic'n!ty of Siatesville. Here he res'ded for the past fifteen year3 and won the love and res;.ect of even his political opponents. He was active in every good work. Pu fa re spirited and enterprising, tht State and h's town have often called for his service, and it ha3 always been promptly aud faithfully rea dered. We met him in New York last tpriiig, wh'ther he oame as com missioner of No th Ca olina to the centennial celebrafoa of George Washington. No betler patriot or truer Amer-caa was to be found in that immense gathering do oue w ho more fully appec'ated the honor of being a citizea of ouTepubPc than this warm hearted, 6omelimea cho leric, but always brave aud loyid Pole. Col. Allen was fond of music and the violin was his favorite in strument. When he fled from the wrath of the Czar, although othe. wise almost empty-handed, he brought h's violin, and upon it we heard him play tbe Russia! national airs with a fine sp'nt in his hospi-r-ble Southern home. When a student he played these tunes on tbe2iuei' slrument before an imperial and: ence. Amer'ca has room for. a.3 many adopted citize is of Col. Allen's sort as Europe Can send vs. P. Beba.inz Kocleilea to tbe Front. New York Tiibune. It is, we kuow, the universal cu . torn of college clashes to det-'goate themselves by the last two figures of the year in" which they are to be graduated, or, for ustance, tbe class of '90, or the class of r99. This beiug sn what are the boys io do, who in the course of time will be graduated iij 1900? To be consist ent they will have Jo say that tbey belong to tho class of '00, which is not only absurd but unpronouncea ble. Let the college debating socie ties tackle this momentous question. Come to think of it, too, won't it sound a little queer to speak of the class of 01' and the class of '02? Mr. Mills thinks the Democrats will have a good working majority in the next House. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 14. 1890. A Nketcb of Fdmon. Mecklenburg Times. The subject of this sketch was born the 11th of February, 1847, at Milan, a small canal village iu Erie county, Ohio. Here be passed the first 13 years of his life, after which he became a news boy on the Grand Trunk railway. It is taid that he never went to school regularly for more thai a couple of months of his life. However he was fond of read ing and bad a searching speculative mind which more than compensated for his want of ''book learning." It is not generally known that Mr. Ed- son ouce edited and puausned a newspaper. But it is a tact. While on tne road ne erected a cnemica labratory and a printing office in an old baggage ear. The title of his- newepaper was the Grand Trunk Herald. On one occasion while ex perimenting, the car caught Pre and the conductor tfter extinguishing the flames threw the labratory apparatus and the Grand Trunk Herald out of the window. One day having a heavy load of papers to take into the cars, he asked some geotleniea standing by to help him in the car, whe -eup-' tbe ire i obligingly caught him uy tbe ears aad lifted him upon the ptfoim. This incident impaired Irs hearing and he ha3 been some what deaf ever since. WhiJe on the road he learned a good deal abort telegraphv and was ever afterwards a ;ec'1e.,se'pe iventer. For several years after at slicing his major iy he moved about from p'ace to place as telegrapher, sometimes beiog dis charged for negligence. At Start fotd, Canada, being req aired o ie po t the word "sis" io tbe manager every hou" to show that he wa9 awake, le i evented au apparatus to do it for him. At Ind'auanos be kepi pre:s report walt;ng wV-.'e be e7pe:"re ited with new methods for iece'v-i tVem. Oie niht whi'e employed at Loivsv"'le, he waseipe- -aieoiiog for his ow.i purpose w'e i he upcet a carboy of sulphuric ac'd wh'ch played the micchief wiih a baijVnj efface below. At New New he -uvented aa instrument to pii.it the slock quotations by which he made come money. This caused h;ui to be relained by the Western Union Telegraph company, to give them first b'u on his telegraph inventions. From that time unt-1 tbe present lie has had u linteirnpted success. He Pved for several years at New ark, N. J., engaged in the manufac ture of the Gold Indicator. While there he fell iu love and married Miss Mary Siillwell. Becoming dissatisfied with the manufacturing business, be located at Alenlo Park, N. J., w here most of his inventions were made. Here he won the appellation of ''The Wizard of Meolo Park." His labratory was in a two story wooden buildiuj; painted white. Here eve y day aid night surrounded by nume-ous phials of chemicals aud curious in 8liamenls he could be seea ia ab're flannel suit, upoLed over w'th ac'u seel'og new ideas aud inventions. Mr. E. Keeps a ri.te tecretary So look aier his eeosive cor-'esnoii e' en e. It is said that he receives over one ham .ed letters a day. Mr. Edicon has two children, oae Doi a ?d the other Dash, named af ter two tymbals of the telegraphic alnhabet. Long live Thos. Alva Edison, aud may his s.ay in the Soulh be pleas ant and p- o5 table. Who Can Best be Spared. The Medical Record, iu giving ad vice to young men, t.a.'s: "Youug men, the first question your emp-oy. ers ask themselves when business be comes s'rek, and when it is thought necessary to economise in the matter of salaries, is, 'who can be spured?' It is the ha'-tUieV tbe shirks, the make-sh:ft, bomebody's protege, son-ebody's nephewrs, and especially Eonieoody's good-for-roth'n". You 05 mi.1, please rencember that, these are rot tbe ones who are called Tor when respnsible positions are to be filled.. Would you like to gauge your own future for a position of prominence? Would you like to know the proba- bilat'es of your getting such a posl tionr inquire within. Wnat a'e you doing to make yourself valuable in the pqsition yon occupy? If you are doing with your might what your hands find to do, the chance3 are ten to o le that you soon become so valuable ia that position that you cannot be spared from it; and then, singnlar to relate, will be the ver time when you will be sought out 1 promotion for a better place." The niece of Mme. Christine Nil son, who hoped to become a great prima donna, has abandoned her plani, having discovered that her Toice is inadequate. A Solnr Phenomenon. Charlotte, N. C, March 5. Many people throughout Western North Carolina are now discussing the very mysterious phenomenon which appeared in the heavens day before yesterday, and seems to have been visible in a few sections. It was an immense circle with a white misty circumference drawn upon the northern heavens with the sun located upon its southern cir cumference. Around the sun was a smaller, but st;ll large circle, the circumference of which had all the colors of the rainbow in it. There were other circles, aud parts of circles, with circumferences ojIv partly defined, in which the rainbow colors commingled coucentrical w;th arge, rainbow circle around tne sun. At tne poims wnere tnese circumferences and parts of circum ferences crossed the g-eat white cir cle, whose southern edge been-ed to cover the snn, the effect in color was brilliant. The sun was on the circumfer ence of a large white circle, and was only the cenLer of the Bmaller rain bow circle. Tbe day was clear, not cloudy. There were sPeM accumu lations of haze about in the heavens, but the sun fchoae brghtly through the thickest of it, gathered togetre- ia the circumference of ihe circle. The curious sight attracted much attention, and caused many an eye to water from strain, and whenever the circumference of one circle crossed the periphery of another, a br'ght poi it was rccentuated, which was so fcla 'ji'g that it hurt the eyes to look at it. a'd it was evidently a picture cf ibe sun mi rowed orth from the cloud. There were a hair doen ia these tolar photographs, and tha.t fact made the whole brU- l:avt cene ve y difficult to obse-ve. It was thought by some that they obce.-ved the rainbow c;rcle tur- rouuding the sun and cutting the great circle at two points, reproduced twice around the great circle, mak- three rainbow circles grouped around the circumference of the great circle. The whole picture was visible thirty minutes, gradually fading away. Mr. J. B. Onke. (iieensboro North State. Very few of the young men of North Carolina have aclreved any thing like the distinction in the business world won by J. B. Duke son of Washington Duke and mem ber cf the firm of W. Duke Sons & Co. Not many years ago "Buck," a3 his father loves to call bun, broke the shell, and planted himself down iu tne city of New York, determined right there in the greatest commer cial and money centre of the conti nent, to make all cigarette concerns take off their hats to W. Duke Sous & Co. Upward and onward he went. The country boy was as much at home in the great metropolis, driv ing his business with all the artful management that industry and ge nius could control and devise, as if he had never been out of the gre.it city. All who know him and come in contact with him. admit that he has phenomenal business aud com mercial gifts. The American Tobacco Company, the wealtbie3taod greatest corpora tion of its kind 5n the world, is or ganised with a capital of $25,000,000. Mr. J. B. Duke is the president of the Company. North. Carolina may well feel proud of her young son who went forth among strangers and reached the topmost round of tne business ladder in so snort a time. - . A Big Scheme. Wilmington Star. One of the biggest engineering schemes yet thought of will shortly be submitted to Congress; it is to tunnel the Sierra Nevada moun tains for the use of the Pacific rail roads, thus avoiding the snow blockades and the delays to travel occasioned thereby. The plan is for two tunnels, each about five miles long, penetrating the ranges at the most feas:ble poiuts, the com panies interested doing the work and each having the right of way. To enable them to do this the com panies will ask Congress to allow them to use the money which they are due the Government, payable in instalments, for this purpose, instead of paying it the Government, and at a later period when the tannels are completed and paid for, to resume the payment to the Government. They don't ask further Government assistance. It is estimated that the work will cost $10,000,000. This will dispense altogether with the mountain grades, and will give a roadbed a thousand feet below the snow level. Alliance T-2ninph. Abbeville (S. C.) Medium. President Stackhcuse of the State Farmers' Alliance says thai the jute trust is now offering to sell bagging for this year's crop at seven cents per yard. We . presume the state ment is correct It indicates a great triumph for the Alliance and snould eucourage that body to contiuue its work against monopolies and trusts. If such a reduction can be effected by so short a period of union aud concerted action there is no tell;ng how much can be done "to lighten the burden uuder which oar farmers are groaning. The war against the jnce trust has been in progress in this State for only one year. The Alliance met with great opposition, but the success of their elTort has silenced most of their opponents. We now hear noth ing of cottou bagg:ng being so flim sy and Worthless. The Charleston buyers are no longer clearing seventy five cents per bale from the stupidity of the Alliance. Tbe farmers had endured the enactions of the jute trust until there was no remedy but to fight the monopoly. They are in a position now to dictate their own terms to the trust. This advantage has been gained by standing together and is aa in ducement for the members of the erg. nization to persevere in the good work. The farmers are now in bet ter hea't than they have been for years, lney nave nta more rer.dy money, have met their obligations more easily and began this crop year under better condil-ons than usual. The outlook should be g-atifyiug to every man woo desires the general prosperity aud hapAJ; less of the country. If the farmers prospe", a-1 other occupations w;ll reap some of the benefit of thei" good fortune. The Alliance is on the crest of the waves. Tankees In the Holy Laiifl. The Holy Land is to be modern ized and turned into a pleasure ground for the tourists. General Ben Butler and several other well known yankees are organizing a stock company to be called the New England Land com pany of Egypt. It is proposed to purchase land in Port Said and Al-, esandria and build a two hundred mile line of railroad through to Da mascus. The road will go through the mountain region in southern Palestine, running north through the valley of the liver of Jordan. Gen. Butler is deeply engaged in the study of Biblical history and Holy Land topography.- He says that when a railroad equipped with steel rails, eighty ton engines, opens the countrv to travel there will be gen- i eral rush ol sight-seers from all over the world. The stopping places in Palestine will include Hebron, Rama, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Jeiico, Naz areth, Gallilee aud Damascus on the extreme ea3t. Tbe enterprising cap ical'sts at the back of this project contemplate notidog less than yan keeiz dg Palestine. They are satis tied that their railroad will develop the couniry, bui'd up towns, and re sult in the influx of4many colouists. With the sound of the locomotive whistle much of the romance aad mystery of this land of the Eible wll d:sappear. The old landmarks will be covend with patent medicine ad vertisements, big hotels will spring up in every direction, and the whole country will be turned into a sort 0 side-show under the management of a party of sharp New England spec ulators. The profane hand of progress spares nothing. John Jacob Auto? Forgot Six HilDon At the deathbed of William B. Astof, father of the late John Jacob, says the New York Star, after everything pertaining to ths enor mous personal estate was supposed to be arranged, the dying man sud denly said: John, what did we do with that six millious of registered U. S. 4'8?" ' "We have forgotten them, father," replied the son. ' "What would wc better do with them, John?" "I tbiuk, father, they'd better be given to the girls" his sisters. "That's a good idea, John. Hurry a man to Washington speoially, aud have them transferred before I die." This was done, and the incident is a suggestive pointer as to tbe vast ness of the property held and to be disposed of. Henry Watierson ia inclined to believe that the fight between Cleve land and Hill will make it impossi for either of them to be nominated by the Democrats in 1892. WHOLE NO. 112. A Cur Ions Cane. A St. Louis dispatch says : "The local press is puzzled over the case of John O'Connor, which is certainly a most remarkable one. It was as serted that he had d-ed, aid that his body was taken to the morgue, where it was identified by his wife, who had him "buried in Calvary Cemelery. A few days later it was stated that O'Connor was alive, that his wife had been mistaken, aud that the man who wa3 taken to the grave was not her husband. It is learned that there is every reasou to believe that O'Connor was not buried by proxy, but in his own proper person, sometime between the nigh't of Monday, February 10, and the afternoon of Wednesday. O'Connor was seen Saturday night, and stated most emphat;cally that the grave in the cemetery is empty, and he exhibited a cut which had been made half way across the ab domen. He is of the opiniou that he was really buried and that his body was taken up and conveyed to a dissectiug room while in a state of suspended animation, and that when the first incision was made it caused a flow of blood which restored him to consciousness. He states that when he went to a lodging-bouse on Monday evening, and that he knew uothing more until Wednesday night when he found himself seated on the court-house steps in a dazed condition, w?ak and sick. Crime In orlb Carolina. Raleigh News and Observer. The clerks of the courts are re quired by law to make reports of all c.'iopual cases tried, and Col. Olds has fu -cished the Messenger with a summary of these reports from wh'ch we use the figures below. Ia 1889 there were 7,695 criminal cases t -ied, the accused being 4,409 whites, 7 Indians and 2.279 negroes. The greater proportion of crimes is reported from the Western counties where the negroes are not 80 numer ous asm tne .Last. itatner more than one eighth of the accused were women. There were 58 murder cases and only five couvictions; 18 rape cases and only one conviction; six arson cases and only oue conviction; 31 burglary cases and only two convic tions. There were 1,227 larceny cases nd 6,354 cases of lighter offence. There was one Jew tried and he was acquitted. We take it that the above is an excellent showing for our popn-a- tion. Siy, we have but one crimi nal case to every 240 persons. . We think we have seen it stated that in some of the Northern States the pro: portio.i is one criminal to the hun dred. A Queftliuu of Tune. A story is going the rounds about a local juryman, an Irishman, who cleverly outwitted a judge, and that without lying. He came breathlessly into couri, saying: "Oh, my lord, if you can excuse me, pray do! I do not know which will die first, my wife or my daugh ter." "Dear me ! that's sad," said the innocent judge; 'certainly you are excused." The next day the juryman was met by a friend, who, in a sympa thetic voice, asked : "How's your wife?" "She's all right, thank you-" "And your daughter ?" "She's all right, too. Why do you ask ?" "Why yesterday you said you said you did not know which would die first!" "Nor do I. That is the problem which time alone can solve." Did Yon Know Thin Berore ? Salisbury Truth A gentleman asked us a few days ago to give a reason why the first day of May and Christmas of the same year alwaysonie on the same day of the week. For instance : If the first day of May is on Thu-sday, Christmas of that year will come on Thursday. T'ie reason is because there ave just 238 days or 34 weeks between the first day of May and the 25th day of December, and giving seven days to every week it always brings Christmas on the same day that May came ia. Leap year does not interfere, because it does not af fect any of the months between May and December or January following. The daughter of M. Eiffel, on tne occasion of her recent marriage in Paris, received from her father as a dowry $100,000 in cash and an equal earn in' the stock of the Eiffel Tower Company. CONTAINS MORE READING MATTER THAN ANY OTHER PAPER IN THIS SECTION. Ellison at the Phoenix. A Concord correspondent of the Philadelphia Timeg has succeeded in placing Mr. Edison's mission in a clear light. He says "Thomas A. Edison, Orange, N. J.," was the not able signature I came across ou the St. James' Hotel register, at the lit tle town of Concord, to-day. I learned that Mr. Edison had come over with two colleagues from Charlotte Monday night, and had gone down yesterday to visit the Phoenix Gold Mine, seven miles away. Mr. Edison had been in Charlotte for a week or ten days, and has taken offices there for the year. His business is to try his latest experiment of separating gold from the ore by means of electricity. At the Phcemx gold mine, which he visited yesterday, the gold is mixed with sulphate of iron, and the process of separation is so tedi ous and expensive as to make the profits very small. The superin tendent told me that but for the steady, unfailing supply of ore, which seems simply inexhaustible, it would not pay at all. Be kindly showed me the whole process from the elevation of the ore to the month of the shaft to where tiny specks of gold , appeared in a green blue liquid, in which he pre cipitated it, with a few drops. When the ore comes up fresh from the earth it looks to the uninitiated eye like graystone with bands of light gold through it. This is the combination of gold and sulphate of iron from which it is to difficult to separate it. This graystone is thrown into immense crushers whence it emerges in the form of thick gray mud. Next this gray mud is put into huge revolving ves sels and subjected to an enormous heat, where it looks like powdered red hot coals and where, in a place nearer like the infernal regions than any place I was ever in and which made cue shiver on coming out in the hottest July sun, it is stirred by great half clad men with long iron rods and from whence it emerges looking like dark brown ashes. From this State when it is cool, it goes into the chemical department where it is changed into liquids so various in color, and so fearful in smell as to baffle all description. It goes through these various processes from oue vat to another until at the last our host stopped, aud taking out a bowl full of the liquid, pre cipitated it with a few drops of some liquid revealing the tiny specks of precious gold which gl:6tened through the blueish green water in the clear sun-light. Only so far was the process in operation that day, but the rest of the operation was simply the accumulation of these tiny speck3 into gold dust aud its melting in the retort and mould into the solid brick of gold, which he showed ns and which never seem ed such a precious metal as when seen as the result of such a long, tedious aud laborious process that made it seem incredible it could pay. And now here comes the "Wizard of Menlo Park" and says he can, with his wonderful friend and servant, electricity, separate the gold, even when mixed with the closest and most peetifierou3 of its companions. If the electric process can be done ht all inexpensively the gold mines of North Carolina will boom, in deed." An Editor's Dalles. Sank Rapids Sentinel. We apologize for mistakes made in all former issues and say they were inexcusable, a3 all an editor has to do is to hurt news, and clean the rollers, and set the type, and sweep the floor, and pen short items, and fold papers, and write wrappers, and make the paste, and mail tbe papers, and distribute the type, and talk to visitors, and carry water, and saw wood, and read the proofs, and correct mistakes, and hunt shears to write editorials, and dodge the bills, and dun delinquents, and take cussings from the whole force, and tell our subscribers that we need money. We say that we have no business to make mistakes while attending to these little matters and getting onr living on gopher-tail soup flavored with imagination, and wearing old shoes and no collar, and a patch on our pants, and obliged to turn a smiling countenance to tbe man who tells us that our paper isn't worth $1 anyhow, and that he could make a better one with his eyes shut It is reported that Mr. Pendleton, the Democratic Congressman from West Virginia who was unseated, will bring suit for his salary, in the United States Supreme Court.