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VOL. I. NO. 26.
GOLDSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1888.
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The Spanish Ministers of Foreign Af
fairs have proposed to the United States
und the Spanish-American republics to
j,.in in the great celebration in 1892 of
the discovery by Columbus. Spain will
erect a monument at Palos, near Iluelva,
Columbus's starting point.
The Detroit Free rress says in an edi
torial: "When we consider what a fuss
the railroads made and some of them
crc still making about doing away with
the deadly car stove, it is humiliating to
learn that in Sweden the heating of the
( ars by steam has been universal since
During the progress of a religious re
vival which was recently held at West
Voiut, JihL, a little child of seven years,
while under the influence of the excite
mi nt of the occasion, mounted the pulpit
and made an exhortation which is said
to have been remarkable for its power
and eloquence.
Prodigies of all kinds are springing up
in various parts of the world. Chicago
liis a linguistic wonder in the person of
( oriune Cohn, aged six, who speaks with
fluency English, Cerman, French and
the new universal language, Volapuk.
She is now learning Kussiau and Italian.
Her father is Henry Cohn, President of
the National School of Languages.
Canada has a considerable balance in
hi r favor in the matter of fugitive em
bezzlers. Canada's losses in this respect
are est'matel at $3,000,000, while the
"penal colony" of the United States in
Canada represent some $20,000,000 in
natalities. It is difficult, says the Bos
ten A'lccrtier, to see why any hesitancy
should exist on either side of the border
line to putting an end to this effective
&7aiion of law and justice.
The largest Chinese mining camp in
the Northwest is at Warren, Idaho.
Hundreds of Chinese have been at work
there for several years, and each year
from fifty to seventy-five go back to
China with from $2,000 to 5,000, l
fortune for them. Most Chinese miners
work over old mines, and are very expert
at cleaning up every pn tide of gold;
but at Warren they are on new ground,
and their careful system results in large
yields.
The fact that fifteen to twenty-five
steamers a month are now arriving at tha
mouth of the Congo illustrates the growth
of commerce in that region since Stanley
showed the importance of the great river,
fine ocean steamer has already ascended
the river to I.'oma, fifty miles from the
f-ea, and the best channels are being
marked by buoy?, so that de?p-draught
vessels may safely navigate the lower
river. Little hotch for the entertain
ment of travelers have been built at Ba
nana and I5omo.
Mexico is making a high bid for im
migration. It is reported that the Gov
ailment has made a concession to a real
state company whereby 55,003 acres of
land in eleven different States is to come
into its possession, to be occupied by
immigrants. Settlers on these tracts are
'o be exempt fiom taxation on the land,
and the Government guarantees them
protect'on. It is proposed to establish
agencies in the principal cities of America
and 1'urope to induce immigration to
3;c:.uo. .
President Gerry, r f the New York So
ciety forth? Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, advocates certain rnd'cal
amendments to the exi t ng Factory law
in relat on to the employment c f boys and
girls under a designated age. It is pro
posed to extend the scope of the law so
that not only shall a physician's certifi
cate be requ'red of the physical ability
of every per on under eighteen years to
do the work such person ii engaged in
without prejudice to his or her health,
but also that no child under the age of
sixteen shall be employed in handling
dangerous machinery, poisonous drugs
and chemicals, or explosive materials.
Concerning the terrific blizzards which
frequently rage in the Northwest during
the winter, the New York Commrreiil
Alcr ifr sax: It is a mooted question
among men of science whether or not
puch stresses of weather are due to the
destruction of forests such as has for a
long time been going on in the north
west, and during a recent discussion of
the subject in Europe the weight of
opinion teemed to be against, the com
monly a ceptcd theory. But to what
ever cause the increase of blizzards in
number and violence may be due, certain
it is that tlu increase is noticeable,
as also is that of tornadoes and cyclones
in summer through the same regions, so
that tb-3 west and the northwest, what
ever may be the advantages they offer to
enterprising men, are not without serious
drawbacks. The man who goes there
"to grow up with tho country" takes
the great risk v,f seeing his house and
crops ruined in a few minutes and of
hastily observing hh children, his wife
and his domesiiraninials flying aloft and
and out of s'gl.t i.i summer, or having
them buried ui.de.- dee) drifted snow in
the cold season.
A GREAT WORK;
BUILDING FORTY MILES OP SUB
TKKKANHAN CANAL.
Some Types of Workmen Kmptojert
on the New York Aque
ductA Life of
Perils.
The army of workmen encamped along
the great ( roton aqueduct between New
Yont and Yonkers is a motley one, con
sisting of Americans, Englishmen,
Scotchmen, Irishmen, Germans, Scandi
navians, Italians and nejrroes. It isne-
THE EMiVATOIl GUARD.
cessarily recruited from a tough class,
because no high grade laborers would
work in the shafts and tunnels for $1.50
per day, and endure the wild life led by
the rude toilers whose hands arc prepar
ing the fort' miles of subterranean canal
destined to bring the city's water supply
from the Croton region. They work
hard under the supervision of the
' bostes," pay their shanty tax and doc
tor's tax, and obtain their provisions and
MUCKER ' AT WORK.
whisky by means of orders issued at a
stiff percentage. On pay-day they draw
whatever remnant of wages is due them,
and then occur those revels and orgies
which terrorize the neighborhood. Such
is life along the aqueduct in its worst
aspect ; yet, withal, the great work goes
on steadily, and tin city's responsible in
spectors say it is well clone.
Th? types of aqueduct workmen which
our artist ha? sketched includes the
"nipper," who keeps the compressed-air
drills in order, and the 'mucker," who
rt5IMlN4 DYNAMITE..
clears away the debris of the tunucl after
each stage of the work of drilling, blast-ing-jind
walling. Th delicate operation
of priming dynamite for the blast is il
lustrated; and the elevator guard at his
pest, in a position where he can watch
both the engine and the ascending and
descending cajje.?. The elevator cages
have in most of the shafts replaced the
swinging buckets, wh'ch formerly cost
as many lives as anything connected with
work on the aqueduct, unless it was the
falling of loose rocks after the blast.
THE "NIPPER,"
A "
During last year alone the -work vu at
tended with 64 serious accidents to opera
tives along the line, 27 of which resulted
in death, and 37 in serious in jury. From
the beginning of the work to January 1st
this year, 86 men have been killed and
144 seriously injured, making a total to
the date mentioned of 230 serious acci
dents. A synopsis of the fatalities dur
ing 1837 on Brown, Howard & Co.'s
works for thirteen miles of the aqueduct
shows that 6 men were killed by rocks
and bricks falling on them ; 5 were killed
by falling down shafts with cars, and 2
by the cars falling upon them; 3' by the
explosion of dynamite in an old Irill-hole,
and 1 by the premature discharge of a
blast by lightning; 2 were burned to
death, 1 was crushed by a descending
cage, 1 knocked his brains out against a
projecting timber while pushing a car.
Cf the 5 killed on O'ttrien & Clark's six
teen miles, 1 man fell from a wheeling
platform, 1 was killed by falling timber,
and 3 were buried in a cave-in of the tun
nel. These records may 6erve to illus
trate the dangers to which the workmen
are constantly exposed, despite the pre
cautions of division engineers and in
spectors. Frank Leslie' .
Ice-Yachting.
Ice-yachting is the monarch of winter
sports in this region. The frozen Hud
son affords a superb track for that winged
and steel-shod raer, the ice-yacht,
which here reaches its highest develop
ment and makes its most marve'ous
records. A first class Poughkecpsio
ice-yacht will spread nearly a thousand
feet of canvass and sail a mile a minute;
whi'e era k boats like the Northern
Light or Jack Frost think nothing
of going over a 21-mile course, tack
ing all the way, and making twice
TFIE ".TACK FROST," CHAMPION ICE-nOAT,
the actual distance, ins:de of an hour.
The sport is a glorious one. full of ex
citement and eh!l.irat'o i at all times,
and particularly s vvlen there are ice
cracks to be jumped. If the 'crack" is
practicable that, is to say, not more
than six or eight feet across the bold
skipper of the ic yacht has only to "hold
hard, and bead her for it." She usually
makes it, aiighting with a clanging shock
on the other side, and skimming on as if
nothing had happened. Sometimes,
however, there is a spill, and once in a
while a "ducking." Mr. Archibald
Rogers, a well-known yachtsman, bcth
on water and on ice, ana the owner of
the Bedouin, relates how once in a race
lie attempted a crack almost as broad as
it was long, plumped into the water,
went completely under, but struck a
lower stratum of ice, rebounded to the
surface, and gained the opposite side of
the fissure in safety. Being speedily
fro en stiiF. however, his ardor was tem
porarily chilled, and he lost the race.
Very funny f f the spectators, too,
though a sericus matter for the owner
and for the people on the ice, is a runa
way. AVhcn the w'nd is high, a yacht
will occasionally throw out its naviga
tor, and start wildly on its own hook.
Th.n there is a scattering in all direc
di:ections, though it is usually safer to
stand still, for nobody can te'l what ec
centric curve tho unpiloted machine will
take in its mad course. Valuable boats
lave been wrecked in th's manner,
though we h ive never heard 6f any loss
of life. Fia;tt LelWs.
The Tiniest Horse in America.
The tiniest horse in New York, and
probably in America, is a graceful little
quadruped, named Yen Hoc, which
re cntly arrived in this country from
Clina. The little animal stands just
thirty-five inches high and weighs only
seventy pounds. It is no taller than a
three-year-old child, and will easily pass
under a man's e. tended legs. Experts
who have examined Yen Hoc say he is
four yews old aid full grown. One
peculiarity about him is that he has but
four teeth in either jaw; otherwise he is
a perfect miniature of an ordinary Ameri
can horse.
YEN HOC AT DINNER.
Yen Hoc came over on the ship Ariel,
wh'ch was 158 days in making the trip
from Hong Kong. The ship ran short ot
provisions, and for days Yen Hoc lived
on nothing but a few handfuls of rice.
The little horse's owner is a New York
policemen named Benjamin, who had
saved a sea captain's son from robbery.
In gratitude the captain promised the
policeman something worth having the
next time he eturned to port. He kept
his promise by bringing over Yen Hoc
on his next tr'p from China and present
ing it to Policeman Benjamin. The
eiuinc cur'osity has been placed on ex
hibition in a New York museum.
Time Wasted.
"Mr. Editor, did you read that article
I handed you yesterday?"
"Yes, sir."
"What would you think after reading
that if I told you that I had but one
year's schooling in my life?"
'"I would think that you must have
wasted your time most abominably."
Nebratht State Journal,
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TELEGRAPHIC TICKS-
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
News Collected by Wire jnd Mail From
All Parts of Dixie.
KORTII CAROLINA.
Hog cholera is raging in Jones county,
and is pjoving very destruuetive.
Four hundred and one farmers' allian
ces have been organized in North Caro
lina. The revivalist. R. G. Pearson, has be
gun a great meeting at Newbern. The at
tendance is the largest ever known there.
An incendiary burned the residence of
Mrs. Saunders, in Beaufort county. A
reward is offered and efforts to capture
him are being made.
Rev. R. G. Pearson, tue famous revi
valist, will hold meetings in Newberne
for the next fortnight. He goes to "Wil
mington March 18th, to remain a month.
The fast mail train struck and instant
ly killed a deaf mute, who was walking
on the track near Whitaker's.
It has been decided to double the cap
acity of the cotton seed oil mills at Ral
eigh. Their capacity will be 150 tons per
da'?
AtFaulkland, Pitt county, King Bros.,
general merchants, have failed. Liabil
ities eighty-five hundred dollars. As
sets two thousand.
Rowan county grand jury has returned
a true bill for murder in the first degree
against Will Keen, who killed John
Murphy last month.
The superior court of Guilford county
will shortly take up the case of O. G.
Morgan and W. A. Browne, charged with
the murder of Charles Crittendon there
in December last.
The undertakers of this state held a
meeting in Raleigh a few day ago as an
organized bony, to attend lectures on
embalming
Calvin Stockton, colored, has been ar
rested at Winston charged w ith having
caused the death of George Harris by
striking him upon the head with a stick.
Mike Cook and William Lending, the
negroes charged with burning the town
of Oxford, will be tried at the next term
of Durham Superior Court, the case hav
ing been moved there from Granville
county.
The state board of pharmacy has had
an exanrnat'o l of applicants for licence
to practice pharmacy. G. F. Heflin, Wil
son; C. S. Jordon, Asheville; Charles S.
Kingsmore, Chrrlotte; B. W. Hunter
Raleigh.
Joseph Dortch and Scabury Sasscr, ne
groes, have lecn arrested at Goldsboro
for robbing John G. Cose, a prominent
farmer, on the ridgeway near that place.
They "held up" Coxe and got all his
money.
Within the next two years the North
Carolina State board of education con
templates doing a good deal in the way
of drainage and owning of the vast
bodies of lands it holds, aggregating very
nearly 800,000 acres.
The North Carolina Colored Teachers'
association meets in Raleigh June 12th,
at Shaw university. The programme is
very complete. The meeting continues
six days. Rev. Joseph C. Price is presi
dent of the association.
Miss Josephine Williams was burned
to death at her mother's residence near
Raleigh. She caught fire in the house
and rushed out. When the family caught
her, all her clothing, save her shoes,""had
been burned off.
A'gold mine in Lincoln county has
just been sold to English capitalists, and
other party of Englishmen, who not long
ago bought the noted Christian mine in
Montgomery, arc preparing to spend
three hundred thousand dollars in its de
velopment. Last week three men were arrested in
Iredell county on the charge of having
assassinated Abraham Barker in his moth
er's house. Another man, named, Wil
liam Hepler, has been arrested c harged
with complicity in the same offense, and
is in jail at Statcsvillc.
A colored man, while engaged in cut
ting down trees near Charlotte was
caught under a falling tree, and instant
ly killed. A similar accident occurred
about the same time, another colored
man being caught under a falling
tree and probably fatally wounded.
At Salisbury, N. C, Johnson fc Ram
say's tobacco factory was burned, with
all its machinery and stock of tobacco.
The latter was insured. There was no
insurance on the buildings, the tobacco
being property of J. L. Heme!:. At
one time the town was in danger of de
struction. All the stock of the Charlotte City
Water Works have been purchased by
Mr. E. B. Springs and Dr. R. J. Bre
vard, of that city. This is satisfactory,
inasmuch as the names of these gentle
men guarantee a just and equitable set
tlement of the differences nowT existing
befween the ciiy and the works.
Governor Scales has commuted the
death sentence of Adeline Allen, a color
ed woman, to imprisonment for life in
the penitentiary. She murdered her in
fant child last autumn by throwing it
into a mill pond near Winston. The ap
plication for commutation of sentence
w as signed by the judge, solicitor and
jury.
Revenue officers, finding some irregu
larities going on at the bonded distillery
of J. B. England & Co., near Morganton,
seized the distillery with all the fixtures
and 175 gallons of whiskey. Storekeeper
D. F Denton and all the distillery firm
were held in a bond of three hundred
dollars each for appearance before the
commissioner.
The body of a negro man was found in
the suburbs of Raleigh, lying in a hk
of blood. The body was that of Andrew
Fenner, who had a store near by. Two
negroes, with whom he had recently had
a fight were arrested. While Fenner's
body was laid out in his 6tore awaiting
the arrival of the coroner, a negro named
Alfred Pearce broke into the place and
stole a pocketbook and other articles
from the dead man's pocket, Pcarcc was
caDtured and iailed.
A school teacher named Walter Pearson
has disappeared from the town of Win
der, in Monroe county, in a very myste
rious manner. He was teaching, and
left a note on his desk saying he was
called away, and would not return.
Deeds of trust of the Lynchburg and
Durham railway to the mercantile trust
company of New York, in the sum of
one million six hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars were recorded at Durham.
Several physicians of Durham county
have been indicted by the grand jury for
prescribing whisky in Durham where pro
hibition prevails. It is charged that they
prescribed liquor when it was not need
ed by persons who applied for it.
Treasurer Jenkins, of Durham, has for
months refused to pay out funds for the
maintainancc of the graded schools in
Durham township, and much feelingand
law suits have sesultcd. He has, at last,
receded from this position and has be
gun to make the payments. These - Dur
ham school cases have been vexations,
and one of them is now before the su
preme court. Some have been compro
mised. The schools now get jwssession
of their funds and their success is assur
ed. At CottgevilIe a colored boy named
Toney Dore, fell back- upon a
circular saw while it was running and
was nearly cut in two pieces. The saw
struck him across the buttock and cut
through the hip lones, leaving a thin
strip of muscle and skin in front. He
lived a short while after the accident
and retained consciouseess nearly to the
last. He died in about four hours after
the accident.
News has reched Raleigh of a murder
in Tatam's township, Columbus county.
A venerable negro, named Squire George
was in his house seated in a chair in front
of the fire, when he was approached
from the rear and knocked on the head
with an axe or some other heavy instru
ment. It has l)eeii discovered that a
young negro woman, Alice Brown, com
mitted the crime. She has been arrested
and is in jail at Whiteville. No cause
for this murder can be discovered.
feOl'TIl CAROLINA.
During the first six months of its ex
istence the bank of Cheraw has made 6
per cent above all expenses.
Mr. Epp Griffin, of Ableville County,
last year made eighteen bales of cotton
with one horse.
The State Convention of the Young
Men s Christian Association will be held
in Florence from March 21) to April 1.
There is a movement on foot at Branch
ville to form a new county from
Orange and Barnwell, with that town as
the capital.
Charles Randolph, of Greenville, has
been apiKintcd to weigh the mails on
the route between Charlotte and Atlanta
for four weeks.
Allendale wants to le the capital of
a new countv. Twenty-rive thousand
dollars has Wen pledged to put up the
necessary public buildings, the Legw
laturc will grant the proposed county.
Mr. John Propst, who lives three miles
from Halsellville, had his barn destroyed
by fire. It contained his corn, fodder,
four fine mules, and one horse. The horse
was saved. It is supposed to have been
set on fire. There was no insurance.
Justice Davis has issued a warrant for
a man nanied Ncal, a United States court
witness from Edgetield. Ncal sold his
pay certificate to one party and his parole
to another, and departed from his home.
The warrant was handed to the sheriff,
who will make the arrest.
At a jarty in Greenville a row accur
ed between the factory hands and a num
ber of town boys, who were present.
During the evening, a quarrel occurred
between the parties, and a fight followed
in which R. K. Gilbert, an outsider, was
seriously stabbed in the shoulder by
some unknown person.
A company, consisting of John B. Mar
shall, Professor C. II. Judson and George
Westmoreland have liought the Green
ville S. C. ice mills. The sale f The
mill was made to satisfy a mortgage held
by Mrs. Susan Hall, of Charleston, S. C.
The property sold for $6,000, which is
only $ i00 above the amount of the mortgage-
Jim Brooks, who was recently lodged
in jail at Greenville charged w ith for
gery, had a hearing before United States
Commissioner Hey wood. Brooks pre
sented a false claim against the govern
ment for mileage as a witness in the Uni
ted States Court. He was placed under
bond of $ 100 for his appearance at the
j August term of court in this city.
Jessie Belchor was arrested at Green
ville with breach of trust. T. R. Martin
claimed that he had given Belchor a
watch to have fixed for him, but the de
fendant swaped the watch for an infe
rior one. While before Justice Davis,
Belchor was asked what he had to say to
the charge, and in reply, said that he
had done as stated and deserved punish
ment. He was given twenty days in jail.
An experimental factory, for the man
ufacture of plain and cheap men's pants,
was started at Greenville renccntly un
der the management of T. W. Davis.
The experiment lias proved a success,
and it is probable that a company will lc
formed to conduct the business on an
enlarged scale. About fifteen women
and children are employed at present,
and a hundred pair of pants arc turned
out every day.
Ransom Jones and his wifv, of Lancas
ter county, S. C, went to a mill, a few
miles away, leaving at home their four
children, the oldest aged nine years and
the youngest eighteen months. Shortly
after their departure the older children
locked the youngest in the house and
built a fire near one corner of the build
ing, which soon became ignited. When
the Joneses returned they found their
house and baby in ashes. A coroner's
jury exonorated the children.
UEORGIA.
The anti-prohibitionists of Baldwin
county have withdrawn their petition for
an election,
Mis. Todd, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Ab
raham Lincoln, is stopping at the Central
hotel in Valdosta.
Mr. .Robert Moody of Glvnn countv,
was killed by the 'lever of a timber cart.
The lever came down on him while sit
ing on the tongue, and split Ins head
open, killng him instantly.
A strange fatality seems to hang about
the railroad bridere across the Oconee
river at Milledgevillc. Two deaths and
three serious accidents have occurred
there.
Congressman A. D. Candler has intro
duced a bill for an appropriation of
f 25,000 for establishing a Government
office of assays in Gainesville.
Parties said to' come from Pennsyl
vania are actively engaged in taking op
tions upon mineral bearing anfl other
lands in the eastern part of Polk County.
The grand jury of DeKalb Superior
Court has found four indictments against
Major J. W. Green, general manager of
the Georgia Railroad, for running freight
train on the Sabbath day later than the
hour allowed by law.
The Albany Ga. street railroad is an as
sured fact. About $15,000 of the $25,000
required has lccn subscribed. The first
tramway will extend from the union de
pot up Washington and Broad streets to
the mineral artesian well.
At the sawmill of W. C. Gentry, Mr
Sofford had his arm cut off at the elbow.
He was handling lumber and fell against
the saw while it was in motion.
The negro Tom Marsh, w ho forged sev
eral money orders on senile of the leading
merchants of Chipley, has lcen captured
and handled by proper authorities. Thir
ty dollars reward will lc paid as soon as
uec nlcu by a conviction in the superior
court.
The ncg?N, Tom Marsh, the lwiss forger,
while leing carried to the county jail by
Constable Hardv, at Chipley, lcaied
from the train while in full speed, hand
cuffed. He made good his escape. The
last heard of him he was begging some
of his negro friends to loose his hands.
They refused to do so. An additional
reward of $25 has been issued by Mayor
Tucker.
To sell $:0,00 worth of goods on time
and collect all of the amount out 'J is a
wonderful record for a merchant to make.
It was done last year by one of the lead
ing merchants of Sandcrsville, George
Warthen.
A piece of pure lead, weighing two
pounds, was run from a rock in a small
furnace in Heard County a day or two
ago. A large deposit of black lead was
found near Franklin last week.
There has been more building and im
provements in Cuthbert during the last
year than for a number of ycarss, and it
is still going on. There are no vacant
residences in the city, and several are
now in progress of construction.
More new buildings will p up in
Athens the present spring and summer
than ever known before in the history of
the city. Several magniticient private
residences will be erected on Prince ami
Milledge avenues, as also a number of
public buildings.
In Mitchell andDougherty coun ies,thc
acreage in melons h:is increased from two
to three hundred per cent, If this increase
is general throughout the melon growing
sections, the growers may expect a glut
in the markets, and in that event the
melon crop will prove as unsatisfactory as
the cotton crop.
Bethune Jones, of Mellcdgeville, was
bitten by a mad dog last Sept ember, and
has suffered none scarcely until a few
days ago when he began to complain,
and soon afterwards was thrown into vio
lent spasms and fits. It is now ascertained
that he has hydrophobia and is not ex
pected to live.
WesJJrinkley has been arrested in Rus
sell county charged of placing obstructions
on the Mobile and Girard railroad track.
Sheriff IMIamy, who is one of the most
vigilant officers, says he heard of the at
tempted wreck by accident and did not
obtain the fac ts from the railroad author
ities, although an employe of the road
was approached vion the subject. There
are six nccrro prisoners con lined in the
Russel county jail, charged with attempt
ing to wreck trains on this road.
HO I TH E K N ITEM
Fire at Ocala, Fla., burned alxiut a
dozen business houses and residences,
and caused a loss of about $60,000 ; in
surance is about $30,000. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
F. D. Pourport, confidential clerk of
Adolph Schrielier, treasurer of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, is a defaulter
for $23,000.
Two brothers named Smith were killed
in an attempt to arrest an Irdian at Bcn
tonville, Ark.
KORTII, EAST AND WEST
Thirteen prisoners escaped from the
jail at Newark, Ohio, by digging through
the floor. Two had been sentenced to
the penitentiary.
A, family consisting of father, mother
anddaughter, at Camden, N. J., arc dead
of trichinocis. The poisoned pork was
eaten two weeks ago.
The City of Pekin, arrived at San
Francisco from China and Japan, is the
fifth steamer of that line in succession
with smalltox on board.
Ninety per cent of the insurance com
panies in New York have signed a docu
ment looking to the re-establishment of
the old insurance tariff in that city, which
means an increase of rates.
Startling statistics are published in re
gard to the Western and Northwestern
railroad rate war. Over the whole terri
tory involved the companies affected
have lost in two weeks in the neighbor
hood of $2,000,000.
The jury in the case of August Hetzke,
at Chicago, III., charged with beating to
death with a strap his little step-son,
Max Gilman, returned a verdict this
morning finding the prisoner guilty, and
fixing the penalty at death.
Eight firemen were caught under the
falling wall of a burning building, at
New Brunswick, N. J., and were seri
ously injured, and another of the same
company was run over by an engine. Two
of the firemen will die. The tire was of
small importance.
FLORIDA'S WELCOME.
THE PRESIDENTS GREETING IN
THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
Jacksonville Arrajea la all her Glory to
Receive the Chief ofthe Kailoa mm
him Beaailfal Wife
As the President's train arrived at
Jacksonville it was greeted with a salute
of twenty-one guns and the acclamation
of an immense concourse of people. The
party was escorted to the St. James Ho
tel by the State military, the recep
tion committee in carriages and a band
playing patriotic airs. Mayor Bnrbridge
rode in the carriage with the President
and Mrs. Cleveland, which was decora
ted with flowers and evergreens. At 1:30
o'clock, after the Presidential party had
taken lunch, the marshal of the day, Ma
jor Harkishimer, with twenty aides,
formed the procession, The following
was the order of the procession :
The line of march was along the prin
cipal streets, which were gay with dec
orations of all kinds, including ever
greens, bunting, fef toons of oranges and
orange flowers. Masses of Feople in
holiday attire lined the route, and it is
estimated that 100,000 citizens and visi
tors w itnessed the procession, including
thousands of Northern tourists. On the
arrival of the procession at the Exposi
tion building another salute of twenty
one guns was fired by a detatchment of
Wilson's battery.
The President, Mrs. Cleveland and
their party, and visiting Congressmen
were met at the north entrance by the re
ception committee of the Sub-Tropical
Exposition, with Director General Paine
and the officers of the Association, and
were escorted to a platform in front of
the north gallery. The military then en
tered ami stacked arms, except the
guards on duty. Scats were provided on
the platform for representatives of the
city, State and United States Govern
ment's distinguished citizens and com
mittees. When the President, Mrs. Cleveland,
and the accompanying guests were seatr
ed, Col. J. K. Daniel delivered an ad
dress of welcome, which was warmly ap
plauded, after which a short address was
made by the President.
President Cleveland resumed his seat,
but the applause and cheering continued
to break out anew at short intervals, and
at last Mr. C. II. Jones stepped forward
to the President asd suggested that the
jcople desired to see Mrs. Cleveland.
He acted at once on the suggestion, and
as Mrs. Cleveland rose he took her by
the hand led her to the front.
Then broke forth a perfect tempest of
cheering hand-clapping. Five thousand
throats poured-forth their greeting and
hundreds of waving handkerchiefs show
ed that the ladies shared enthusiasm and
joined in the honor to the first lady of
the land.
This ended the formal part of the cer
emonies. The ladies and gentlemen on
the platform came forward and were
presented to President and 3Irs. Cleve
land, Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, Col.
and Mrs. Lamont, and then the party re
turned to their carriages and were driven
to their hotel.
The President's public reception was
held in the evening at the St. James Ho
tel lasting two hours, during which time
over eight thousand icrsons had jssed
in line and shaken hands with the Presi
dent. A Family (Jnarrel.
- In Jackson township, Wilson county,
N. C, Noel Eatman went to the house
of his cousin, Noah Eatman, and while
endeavoring to persuade Noah's wife to
approve the sale of some land, which he
was endeavoring to buy from him, 'be
came involved in a quarrel with her.
Mrs. Eatman quarrelled so loudly that
she was heard by her father, John Bat
toms, who lives a half a mile away. Bat
toms armed himself, ran over to Noah
Eatman's, sprang into the door of the
house, and demanded the cause of the
row. Seeing Noel Eatman, who had a
warrant from the sheriff of Nash for his
arrest, he fired at him, breaking his
thighiHinc. The shot penetrated the
other leg, when the firing became pro
miscuous, ten or twelve shots exchanged.
Eatman Fell, and drawing a revolver,
emptied it at Battoms, who was struck
by two ballets. Noah Eatman, his wife
and children and several other persons
were in the room at the time. One of
the children, seven years" old was shot
through the head and fatally wounded.
Battoms is sixty-five years old, and has
leen dodging the sheriff of Nash county
for three years, and is a desjicrate man.
Both he and Eatman have their parti
sans. There is considerable feeling and
more trouble is expected.
Cause of Cotton Fires.
A New York letter ays: The national
board of fire and marine underwriters
have investigated the recent cotton fires,
and have decided that the fault must be
laid to the planters. The underwriters
contend that the sewing of bales is so
faully that large spaces are left which
expose the cotton to danger from fires.
The ; underwriters invited a committee
from the Cotton Exchange to meet them
yesterday evening. They notified the
cotton men of the results of their inves
tigation, and stated that they wbnld
shortly issue rules and regulations which
must be adhered to in baling cotton if
planters and shippers wanted insurance.
The cotton men agreed fully with the
underwriters, and at the next meeting of
the Exchange they will recommend that
cotton not baled according to the forth
coming rules shall not be dealt in upon
the exchange.
The Earth Cracked.
A remarkable phenomenon manifested
itself iiear Akron, Ohio, the other
morning. People in the vicinity of the
seat of trouble were thrown out of bed,
and windows and ceilings crumbled,
while the earth rocked, the convulsions
being preceded by terrific reports of an
explosion. ' A great fissure in the earth
is the only sign of the strange occurrence.
People fled from their houses and the
greatest excitement prevailed,
There are 703 incubators in this coun
ry, ard the prolu tion U from. 10,000,
)0 to 12, VI I', 10 chifks annually.
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