North Carolina Newspapers

, WE'LL HEW TO. THE LINE, LET THE CHJP8 FALL WHERE THEY MAY. VOL. I. IIILLSBOItO, N. , C.f THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1887. NO, 14, THE; WORLD OYER, BPTTOME OF TUE INTERESTING jtzw? or THE. DAY. Tao Irish Troablea--f bor it (Halloa Kvery woero-waal la Uelua North, Kaati . Weal u4 Aeroaa lb Heaa.. The Czar of Russia caught the measles At Copenhagen, Denmark. '- A Statue of tile I.lcf Erirlrann tha TV. Isndic explorer, who is believed to have , discovered mis continent, was unveiled ? in Boston, Mum. News from Honnlniii h tpmnr Ana. trulla, indicate the probable overthrow ui in present jrovcmineol and tno re " con4rcction of the cahliier. i Gen. FcrronTrcnch mlnfaterof "war, ' nut nrobibiti-d militant mmiK at n.r - mont-Ferriind. Iwmiiu it nmtnnrM Ha wonatrations in favor of Gen. Boulangcr. . The 8cotch yacht Thistle, which left - Iw Tork arrived at Grecnoek. Scotland. , oe had a good voyage. , The best duvs run was 258 miles, the woret 73. She bo-' Laved well. ; , . .. . ,, A conflict between th Rtaf a anil Fnd end force at Jtound Valley, Cal.t ha FotlerdJ forwt until tho matter ia dispute wjuilhi in ilia rmiriA i - - . In New York city, the oldest Methodist church in America. Celebrated iia 12ist - Anniversary. Five aervico were held and a'l were largely attended. ' Gov. Rusk haa dctcrmlnm! n tk on freetic Stan to rlnnit nut tha tnf.m.iia : aens in Hurley and other place in the luuiwr uiaincu oi Wisconsin, unless the county authorities act very promptly "w gu-ernor win remove twin. The Chamber of Commerce of Cincin nnli, Ohio, has n jecled the application of JuhnO'ilara, a well-to-do bootblack, lor admission to that body, and has re solved that hereafter no saloon -kecpei " nor bootblacks may become members. Advices from Sierra Leone to . London, England, say that the native oaDQciiou nave irca sni tnas-acrcd ine native polioi and a number of tcople, f The mnboata Armn ami Einrtntrili tirn. - rtH-i t n tha imh a Vi i George Buy, an accomplice of Gen. D. Adrian in sale of decoration, committed - suicide in Taris, France, by shoot iufj himself with revolver. The police were about to arrest him and after a des , peiate attempt to cscane, he shot him nrlf. Hir Charles Dilke has published an ar- tide, la which he says Engl md is totally afMvi w vuitB wild anr in ma ruvn tie tLinks she ought lo spend about ten ' milliok nouula In Miumniniv anil arm. iing the army and in the building of fur- MuiAuona. 'L Bui ti more special t the Chlcijti, 111.. Intsr-Oream aava lh.it J. tlttultl it f men awl by a new rival in the telegraph ' X tkUklmaa Putt imnr MhitnlUt. m.m .a jumivn ine duik vi it e money oectsaary to build and equip a more complete rival telegraph system than any yet orgauized Jenay Lind (Madame Goldschraidi), the celebrated SwcdUh singer, died at her (i noma in London, tnirUnd. 8he -was ' f. tj"w years of age. She retired Tom the stage after her marriage in America, ia 1832, but reappeared at various coa cert in aid of charilice. She Lad not : appeared in public since 1866.- Th propeller Vernon, of Milwaukee, Wis., Capt. George Thorpe, was lost on - Lake Superior in a gale aud all on bo ir1 nearly 30 persons were drowned. The , . steamer Superior attempted to rescue , them, but she could do nothing; aa she became unmanageable on account of the . steering gear getting out of order. ' the most distinguished pbyiitiiiiaof Xcw York, died very . suddenly in thut city. Dr. Carnochan was born at Savannah, . Oa-, on July 4, 1817. He rrccived his education In Scotland.of which his father : waa aative, and was graduated from '' the . University of Edinburgh when 17 old. . Aa ezplonoa occurred in one of the cartridge buildinga of the American For cite Powder company at JliCninavillo, New Jersey. Four persons were making raruiugca at mo iime. nuroriy: juiin Faucker, Henry Dod.l, Philip Mrers and Fred McDcde, . aged from fifteen to t venty-four years, and with (he build ings, they were blown to atoms. . About 800 job printers, over half of the whole number in Chicago, ill., went on a strike for nine hours a day. A ' member of the strikers eo uiive com mittee aid that several of the lar-jc-t of flees yielded before the hour fct for the strike. Employers generally express confidence of victory and intimate Mhat their main line of action i:i be to fill their office with non-union men. At a meeting of tho Chicago, III., Live Stock Exchange, resolution were adopt ed asking Congress to reical the oleo margarine bill and to foster in every wsy possible the cattle trade,in order to facili- taU competition with Australia and South America. -'The resolution lino comitlains of the action of the Huron of Atrri. ul-tnr-. in unjustly declaring the i jti.iteiic of pleura-pneumonia In the greatest c ittie aaailaA AST ala lt...i . . I a a uiBinri ui ma uani.pnen, lllDicbr ili'lire r elating the price of cattle about $1 ner ,.' Mm. Kate Miller, of Cincinnati, O-. I went to the third story, ns she nil I, to awaken her two children. Upon rc.n h Ing the room she seized her nine-yeitr old daughter Viola and htirltnl her through a window to the sidewalk and inatantU leaped out sfter her. Mrs. Miller's bend was crushed snd s'ie died Innlant y. Mrs. Miller's mind has lcen thought lo lc im I paired by rlft over the Ion ef a b tlm s I ifi w niontha ago aud by mnlw t at bet husband, who is now out of 'bukiaeaa. - WASHINGTON ITEMS. PiCTvnEs 'or rne doings at TUB NATIONAL CAPITAL. The DapaHnrau Get tlaa Daw to Ba.lneaa AaaJa-The Mailaa'a Fiaaaeta-AaluU . airais aaal Ucauvala-Paraoaals. ; BECHETART WHITKET ICK. Information from New York states that Secretary of the Navy Whitney spent the day quietly at his home in that city. Dr. Loomia called to see him in the morning and pronounced him better, but repeated his orders to kep absolute quiet for sev eral days Callers were tola he wtuld be well uLabout a week. lie was , not allowed to see visitors. " . 0 DEATHS BEPOIITKD. , p The' official records of the Maritime Ilospital Bureau show the continued ex istence of yellow fever at Tampa, Fls., but nowhere else in the state." 'Reports have been received that cases have ap peared at different points in Pasco coun ty. They are being investigated, but as yet have not been confirmed. There have been between 223 and 250 cases and U deaths from yellow fever at Tampa. The number of cases under treatment on that date was 80. , , .-', aouTqsiiir offices killed. . A dispatch has been received at the Na vy Department stating that the body of Passed Assistant Surgeon George Arthur was found lying by tho railroad track at West Salem, V., having evidently fullcn from the train. Dr. Arthur has been for years past on duty at the museum of hv gicne in Washington, and left there for Shelbyville, Tenn., where he was to have been married. lie waa appointed 10 ine navy from Maryland in 1877. - , DEFENSELESS SEA COAST. "For the event of a war, we are no more prepared than we were a year ago," says Admiral Porter in his annual report to the Secretary of the Navy. He aays that toe narbora of botn the Atlantic and Pa cific coasts, and the lakes and the Gulf ports as welL are entirely defenseless. even against single modern Ironclad, and that a fleet of heavy ironclads could commence at the easternmost port, and, steaming along me coast to Uslveston, Texas, could lay every city on the sea- Doara under cottribution. . WOBS150 ME5 PABAD. The oriraniced laboring1 men of the District of Columbia, to the number of about o,ouo, made a demonstration by marching through the city with bands of music, banners and transiiarenciea. All of the streets along which the procession moved were brilliantly iUuminatud with colored fire and Cbineae lanterns, borne by tne marchers. The men made an ex cellent appearance and were' loudlv cheered bythr crowds which Tilled Penn sylvania avenno . and other ptincipa streets. A noteworthy feature of the parade was the total absence of violent or radical Inscriptions or transparencies. - : votes. The Acting Secretart- of the Treasury designated the Bank of Charlestons. C, a depository oi government moneys. ; The Secretary of the Treasury hat ap pointed ElxaT. lie cord to be store-keeper and gauger at Oakland, Ark. Chief; Engineer W. II. Harris, of tho navy, nas reported to tue District police that one of Tnon json's improved indica tors was stolen from the Navy Department. The Secretary of ihe Treasury has appointed John SL Wimmcr to be store keeper and gauger at Salem, X. C, and Wm. 8. Thompson to lie store-keeper and gauger at Yadkin College, N. C. The receipts of the government for Oc tober amounted to 931.803,173 and ex pen iturea to $12,474, M2, being an ex cess of receipts of 119,338.320. the de crease of public debt for October is estimated at 114,000,000. The President has resumed bis tri weekly receptions to the public, These receptions are held in the East Room on ilnmlays, Wednesdays and rrma.s at half past one o'clock, and are intended exclusively for persons visiting the Capi tal who may dcire te pay their xespecta to the President. , , - , ..POISONED SUPPEB. It rartk-laaais la a Meal al sv Ball, Ms . a BaMaa Dcaib. .. . George C. King, who resides four or five miles southwest of Lamar. La.. gave dance and supper at his residence. Alter auptier was nearly over, all the guests Were taken Violently sick and a doctor was sent for, who pronounced the t ckness caused by poison of soma kind and was unablo to render in urn relief. George King. J. Hen King, Walter Bell, Lee f ord, John O'Brien, Jr., Misa Minnie Brown, all white, andZeke Hill, colored, have since died, ai.d wife of Zt ke Hill and his six children, Aa Ford and six ihildren, whites Mr. Louis King and children, Fronie Wslkcr and child, one "i ine Durham boye, Bruce spiers and IMIIard Butler, wife and children are langeroualy sick. Abe Wsalitmrne waa nuiie sick, but is but of danger. No motive can be assigned for tho dastardly deed. The cook ia not supposed to be uuilty as she is dangetoustv airk and her husband and one or two of her children are doad. . GALA DAT. Fair weather and great enthusiasm pre vailed at Charleston, S. C, during the fall festival. Crowds of visitors entered Ihe city on alt trains, and it il estimated that there are six thousand strangers. CLAIMED FOR DEATH, TIIE UNITED STATES COVBT RE FUSES TUE ANARCHISTS' WRIT. Prrparallaaa la CMea, III., for the Ezeeo-lloa-Frleada Exeladaa' Fran, Iba l'ris , a-U.M.Traoaa Meat tha (fees. Chief Justice Waite, of the United States Supreme Court announced the de cision in the Chicago Anarchist case, in a long and exhaustive opinion, concluding ns follows ; "To give us jurisdiction un der section 709 of the Revised Statutes, because of the denial by tho State court of any title, right, privilege or immunity claimed under the Constitution, or any tuc-tty or statute of the United States, it must appear that such title, right, priv ilege, or immunity was specially set up or claimed," at tho proper time, and in the proper way, To be reviewable, a de cision must be against a right so set up or claimed. As the supreme court of the State was reviewing the decision of the trial court, to make the question review able there, it must appear that the claim waa made in that court because the su premo court was only authorized to re view the judgment of that court for er rors committed tbcra, and we can do no more. This is not, as seems to be sup posed by one of the counsel for the peti tioners, a question of a waiver of right under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States, but a question of claim. If not set up or claimed in the proper court below, the judgment of the State court in the action is conclusive so far as tho right of re.iew is concerned. The question whether the letter, if ob tained as claimed, would have been compe tent evidence is notbeforo us, and there fore no foundation is laid under thia ob jection for the exercise of our jurimlicticu. As to the suggestion by counsel for Pe titioners Spiea and Fieldcn, that Spies having been born in Germany, and Ficl den in Great Britain, they have been de nied by the decision of the court below, the right guaranteed to them by treatiea between the United States and their re spective countries, it is sufficient to say, that no such questions were made and decided in either of the courts bclow.and they cannot be raised in this court for the first time. We have not been referred to any treaty, neither aro we aware of any, under which such question could be raised. Being of the opinion, therefore, that the Federal questions presented by counsel for the petitioners, and which they say they desire to argue, are not in facta involved in the determination of the case aa it appears on the face of the record, we deny the writ,'1 Within fifteen minute after the decis ion of the U. 8. Supreme Court was known, . eight or tea officer! in citizen' clothes apjieared at the Chicago jail. Two of them stepped quickly into the jsil and the others disposed of them selves in the criminal court building and about the neighborhood. Without any previous intimation the rule debarring visitois from the jail was quickly put into effect, and nono waa allowed toentet the building during the afternoon, ex cept officers, reporters and relatives of the anarchists. As soon as the news from Washington had gcncnlly circulated throughout the city, there was a rush of miscellaneous people . to see the con demned men before it waa too late. They entered the sheriffs office in droves, but the latch-striug had been withdrawn,and the jail guard was as obdurate as the prison wardens Friends of the doomed men, bearing basket of delicacies for them, begged admittance. The dain ties were passed in, but only relatives gal ilea an entrance. Said the sheriff: "I do not want to make any fuss about it, but tho visit of other anarchists have got to stop. Henceforth the doomed men will nut be allowed to have any mere recreation hours. Personally. I would like to grant them all the favors 1 could, but I .don't tbink it would be wise to do so. It may seem foolish and 'perhaps it is foolish, but I dont want tlicse men to cheat the gallows by kill ing themselves. Their friends might f ve them daggers or poison,ndalthou h know that if they should want to kill thcniselvea, we would bo powerless to prevent it, still, I should hot;iikc to have it said that if I had attended to my duty, the suicides might have been prevented." A significant incident of the day had its scene at police headquarter. The mo ment word of the decision was received, alt the detectives iu tho building disap peared with surprising suddenness. to what districts or placet they were as signed, their superiors werenon-commun-kative when asked. It is known, how ever, that for aomo days the men have nad scaled instiuctiont to act as aoon as the decision waa re ceived. "We will not lie caught nap ping," waa all the offlceis would say. Two companies of the 6th U. 8. infan try have been ordered Xrom Foit Douglnsa, Salt Lake City, to the new military res ervation near Chicago. A number of other troop will be ordered there for the present. Ihe troops will be avail able in cae there should be any riots in Chicago, but is stated at the War De partment at Washington, D. C , that thia is not the primary, cause for ordurincr them there. IftNt-LT TO AMERICA. Husslan advices to the Frankfurter Ztituny, of Berlin, Germany, ri port tie i xpulsion from Russia of Van Iil.r, form erly American con mi I at Moscow, who at the request of tho Itua-inn gi virn nient, was dismissed for scllin, medals to Itimiatt exhibitors at Now Orl-an. Tho government l f r srndini Van lliper to the Itmi it r. In formed tho American gorvrtiimiil of its (Mention. " SOUTHERN FARMER. PLEASANT ITEMS TO READCOOl EVENINGS BY TUE FIRESIDE. fireal Vain ia Ploe For eat a-B lea Going t'p, ' aa4 Calto Uoldlna lis Owa-Cottoa Tax to Be Kefaoded. . FINE LANDS ADVANCING. 'Six years ago, D. C, Bacon, of Savan nah, Ga.. proposed a schemo for buying up the pine forests of South Georgia. About $600,000 would have been re quired. .. At leat $2,000,000 could now be realized on that investment hid it been made. There is money to be made In buying Georgia pine lands or holding them at present figures. The pine belt is rapidly diminishing, and the reputation and uses of pine are multiplying. Indeed, all southern forests are valuable. Pros pectors are buying them up in vast tracts at low prices. So of mineral tracts. We should not sell our patrimony for a song. The South is a new field aud the coming Hold, and it will pay to watch and wait. CHOP RECORD. The annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of South Carolina, esti mates the aggregate value of the princi pal crop produced iu the state tho pres ent year at $409,080,000, which excels the value of agricultural productions as returned at the tenth census by about $5, 000,000, and that of last year by abou'. $3,000,000. The yield of cotton is esti mated at 605,114 bales, an increaw over last year's crop of 75,114 bales. Tho yield of corn ia 17.490,690 bushels, an increase of 3,565,523 bushels. Itico, 67, 783,920 pounds, a decrease of 1,843,003 Socods. Wheat, -1,121,443 bushels, a ccrease of 39,655 bushels. Oats, 4,001. 075 bushels, an increase of 300,318 bush els. Peas, 795,310 bushels, an increase of 13,424 bushels. The value of form supplies purchased during the year is es timated at the same as last year $5,000, 000. -. . RICE GOING CP. . Owing to the unfavorable spring and the July floods the rice crop in the Sa vannah territory, Georgia, is short fully 40 pip cent. The receipts at the Savan nah mills lost year were 680,000 bushels. This year they will not be over 436,000 bushels, and may possibly run 50,000 lower. For the whole country the short age ia 237,000 barrels, or . 2,607, 000 : bushels. The acreage of rice ;' ' planted' this year waa about the same as last.- But, owing to the deteriorating cause in growth, har vesting and milling, there i a marked diminfshment of yield ; and. in compari son with the previous crop, Louisiana produce but about 67 per cent; Geor gia, 77 per cent ; South Carolina, 91 per cent; North Carolina, 93 per cent Messrs. Dan Talmage's Sons estimate the total crop at 433,000 barrels, which, combined with 25,000 barrels, stocK on hand September 1st, gave viikde supply for present year of 473,000 barrels, against 715,000 barrels in 1886. The sales of new crop thus far have been 150,e00 barrels, against 63,000 barrels, 183G. This amount refers only to the outwardmovement of the new crop, an i unless combined with the stork of the old crop at distributing centres, does pot show the actual distribution or c nsump tioo. The total to date for each of the respective years ia 165,000 barrels this year, against 143,000 barrels Iat year. Deducting these two amounts from the total stock and crop, leave a visihln supply, first hands, of about 81.1,000 barrels, against 575,000 barrels in 1886. The partial failure of the potato crop in Europe has already caused a marked en , largement of the demand for rice abroad; and although Ihe output of the Indies wm 6 per cent, greater than Inst year, the risible snpply is now nearly 30 tier cent less. Three prominent factors determine the course of the domestic rice market the amount produced; the cot of im porting foreign; the amount produced of other crops such as potatoes, etc., which are related in a greater or less degree to the same channels of consumption as rice. The facta in regard to these show that the cron is nearly 2' 0,000 barn-Is short of trade requirements east of the Itocky Mountains; that the domestic in primary markets ia below the cost of competing grade in foreign; that there is marked shortage in crops which are, ordinarily, competitor with rice. These several reason are though ft clearly indicate that then will be a high range of value throughout the season. Parkers' alliance. The County alliance of the Farmers' alliance, of Schley county, tia., met at Ellaville. Among the most important business was steps taken for the organi sation of ftate alliance, therefore, all the county alliances of the state are re quested to elect delegates at once to meet in Americu, on Wednesday More the third Sunday in November, next f the purpose of organizing a Farmer State alliance. . THE COTTO TAX. The Baltimore Mtmfitlnm$' i!Wwi?, In view of the fact that the cotton tax collected during and immediately after the" War ha been declared illegal by the United State Supreme Comt, sngtrcls that the acvcnty-five.millions i f dollars which were collected from the frmcr of the Southern states be restored t the South by Congress to be used ns a fund for educational purtwsc. Tne money belongs to the farmers of the Southern states, and Congress ha nothing to do but to re tore it to the states Iu which it was collected. It is a fund which be long to the clasa which paid it . INTENSIVE FAKXIKO. M. A. Ransom, a fanner in Aiken county, 8. C, has furnished the Depart ment of Agriculture of South Carolina a report on an exiierinient he has raad this tear -on one acre in cotton. It shows what can be accomplished with a proper system of fertilization rnd cultiva tion. Tho land on which tho crop was made was good pino hind, with clny sub soil. . It was in oats laet year, but has been moderately well fertilized for several years. The land wat broken early in March with a turn ' plow, running six or seven inches deep. In bedding a six inch shovel plow was used, followed in tho same furrow with a long bull-tongue, bi caking to the depth of ten or eleven inches. t Planted on a low flat bed and "knocked hit" with board. ' A. good stand was obtained. Chopped out in the usual way before 'running .around." First plowing or tiding waa done with A cultivator, subse quent plowing with sweep. The gen eral plan observed was deep breaking aud shallow cultivation. , Tho entire cost of producing the crop, according to an item ized statement furnished the Department of Agriculture, including labor, fertilizers and average rent of land, was $54.03, the product was 901 pounds of lint cot ton, which told at 9 cents per pound giv ing a return of $81 .09, to which must be added the value of the seed, 50 bush els, at 20 cents a low price $10 mak ing the aggregate return $91.09. De ducting cost, $54.03, leaves a net profit on tho yield of the acre of $37.07. De ducting from tho cost of production the value of the seed, it will be seen that the cost of growing the crop was less than 5 cents per pound. Mr. Ransom conducted the experiment at the request of tho de partment, and he says in his report that while the result is nothing wonderful, it is so satisfactory $37 per acre profit as to make it an exceedingly favorable showing for the intensive system of farm ing which ho thinks should be followed more generally by our farmers. PRICE OP COTTON. Leading cotton brokers in New York say that the general reduction of crop estimates has given increased confidence in the value of cotton at about present prices, and this has led to a considerable outside speculation in contracts. This large business, which greatly encourages the commission houses, has sprung up within a few weeks. New England spinners have been largo buyers of actual cotton in the South a fact which, in cotton circles, is accounted a very favor able feature. ED1T0E O'BEIO AEEESTED taliSetu mt Tnrbnlroc Enwra. Tb People Aasrwble by Tbaaaaajda, The appeal of William O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, pgninst the sentence of three months' impritonment imposed on him by the MichulUtown court, has been refused and the sentence of the lower court confirmed. The charge of which he was convicted was of using seditious lan guage under the crimes act at the na tional league meeting at Mitchelltstown. A most exciting scene ensued in the court room at Middlcton when the de cioion confirming the sentence of the Mitche'town court was announced. The room was immediately in an uproar, and people clustered around Mr. O'Brien to prevent the law officers from arresting him. Mr. Harrington contended that the police had no right to arrest Mr. O'Brien. A terrible struggle took place in the court room and in the passage leading to the street between Mr. O'Brien and his frier ds on onu side and tho police on the other. The police finally succeeded in arresting Mr. O'Brien. The people re muiucd ia. the street ouUide the court clamoring for ths rescue of Mr. O'Brien and vengeance upon the police. The vi cinity of the prison at Cork, where Mr. O'Brien was taken, was occupied by a strong force of pol ce. Fully one hun dred mis followed the car occupied by Mr. O'Brkn, which was driven rapidly through the city to the prison. On ar riving at the prison Mr. O'Brien com pelled the police to remove him forcibly from the earrinpo. He was accompanied to prison by the mayor. Throughout the proceedings the wildest enthusiasm was shown. WIIITK XYtHOItrit ftllOT. The striker shot four lalmrcr at Ti gcrrilte, La., from an ambush. The su gar plantation of Mr. Lncawgne, where the shooting took place, is in the pariah of Tcrre Bonne, on Bayou Black, eight mile from Tigcrville, and between that point And Homer. Prior to the strike, there were employed upon the Green wood plantation about sixty laborers, twenty-five white, and the rcma'ndcr colored. On Friday the latter all struck for higher wages, but all the white hands rcinaim d and continued at work ns usual. laKasagoe at once made arrangements for filling up the number of laborers required upon Li plantation by engaging white men in New Orleans, and fotty-tivo were tent there. Advices from lluilnud, La., rcpnttthnt strikers in that section are turbulent and threatening, and the citi zen have acked for protection. Judge Beattie has ordered the sheriff to leave with pos-e. A FttkAf HEtt HltXItn, While A colored minister, John Drpcw, A prominent minister and politician, wn peaking to an tmiirration meeting, near Sturgia, Miss., another colored man on the outside of the bouse fired through an open window a load of buckxhot, blow ing oat hi brains. The murderer was arrested And escaped, was captured again, and for A second time got away. It hap pen that the preacher was about to re port the man who did the shooting for calf stealing, and lie and his brother got up the so-called finigtatioa meting os tensibly for tho purpoafl of dicusing Liberia as A future home, but really to get Drpcw in a place where they coul i murder him. , SOUTHERN BRIEFS. READABLE ITEMS CAREFULLY GATHERED HITHER AND YON. ( floclal, Tompernnee and Rell!oa Move ' Meats Flrea, Death and ulclde-Rall-. .road Operation and Impraveaaeaita. On the Georgia Railroad, at Thomson, G., one freight train ran into the rear of another, breaking up five cars, but doing no injury to any one. A passenger train over the Cincinnati Southern Itailroad.collided with a freight train near T.nnninrr Tenn. Tlin Vincancrft and mail cars were telescoped and both engines badly wrecked. The road was blocked for five hours. No one seriously hurt. ... ; -. Two freight trains collided on' the Richmond, Fredericksburg ds Potomac Railroad, near Taylorsville, Vu. Both en gines and several freight car wero badly wrecked. Engineer Denell and a brake man named Page, were injured, and a colored brakenian named Edmund Carter, was killed. The accident was attributed to a misplaeed switch. The Frank Tobacco Company, whole sale dealers in cigars and tobacco, of Danville, Va., has fulled, with liabilities of about $44,000; assets, a stock valued at from $7,000 to $10,000 and book ac counts, which Mr. Frank snvs. will show $25,000. There are preferred creditor to the amount of $4,850. The failure is, attributed to dulL business, poor collec tions and the expense of doing business. A force of five hundred hands ha com menced work on the connecting link be tween Clinton and Oliver Springs, a dis tance of twelve miles, through one of the wildest districts in the mountains ol Tennessee. The grading is to bo con pleted January 1, and trains running March 1. This will connect the East Tennessee system with the Queen and Crescent route at Knoxviile junction, and gives Knoxviile two outlets to Cin cinnati. , About 600 men, including oyster openers, boatmen and others in tho em ploy of canning companies, at Biloxi, Miss., struck work. The atriko wat ordered by the local assembly Knights of Labor. Sometime ago shippers and packer were notified that uuless ten cents per hundred for opening oysters was paid on and after November lst.theii employes would strike and call off all the boats engaged in fishing. Tho ship per and packers have resolved not to accede to the demand of tiie strikers and all of them will soon shut down their establishments, throwing thousand of persons out of employment HOBMBLE ACCIDEST la Hl.Leala, Ms., Ry bleb Two Fomlllre Aro Alueet ExtrrMlaaied. A terrific explosion ocenrred in tho grocery store of Michael Newman, in St Louis, Mo. The grocery and two ad joining two-story brick buildings were nearly demolished, and twelve persons, including the wife snd five children of Newman, and two families living in ad joining houses were buried in the ruins, eight being killed outright. The cause of the explosion is a mystery, some at tributing it to the ctiminal use of dyna mite, other to powder stored in tho building, and others to sn accidental ex- . - .... .v a i .. i! . . plosion oi gasoline; mc nremen lui-unc m the last theory. The bodies of a'l were recovered. One of tho survivor is Misa Hattie Brown, of Columbus, Ky., sister snd visitor of Mrs. DeVerc, Sue state that she awoke to find herself buried be tween heavy timbers. Some were against a wall. On one side of her a wall of fire reached to the sky, whilo crashing tim ber and clattering iron 11 w in a storm ibouther. The scream of persons in the adjoining building were feai f uU How the made her way to the little back yard, where she was found, she cannot tell, ex cept that it was by staggering And fall ing and rolling over through or fron the ruined house. - FHACDILENT EXPOSITION. Buffalo Bill's Wild Wett has closed th fc ison in London, England, and the pro prietors of the enterprise will come out about $250,000 ahead. It wai intended to go to Piiria this winter, but the Hip podrome there was engaged and an ef fort to secure the Palace of Induxtry wu abortive. The Wild West would have made at least half a million dollars in London if it had not been tied up with the so-called American Exposition, which waa a shameful fraud. If it had not been for Buffalo Bill and his cowboy and In dian, Ihe American Exposition could not have remained open three weeks. It was the moit paltry, miserable affiir tbntever bore the Dame Exposition, and as long aa it liwtejt, was a standing discredit to the United States. liOOO-RY, JAY J Jay Gould and party sailed f- r Europe recently. The party consisted of Jay Gould, Mrs. Gould, Mis Ncble Gould, aged 16, Annie Gould, aged 8, a young son, aged 0, and Capt. Sliae kford. Vlcu Mr. Gould hod gotten thing somowlml in order on shipboard he left his friends, and made hlmelf the center of a grout of reporter. Without waiting to be que tionvd, he continued: 'We sre going t Gibraltar, where my yacht is t j meet u. Then we will cruise around the Mediter ranean for two months. No buines,only plea'ure, George is cap ble, and 1 r lj upon h m, aided by the advice of mj friends. I wish you would deny tht statement that my phviiclan goes with me. 1 am not siek - only in need of rest. 1 expect to bo home in the early spring.