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V- v -v- A-MMe ,.,, 00FO WE'LL HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY. HILLSflORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1888. NO. i.4. WASHINGTON, D. C. ; mots xjri fancies about , , W things. Wtil OuNultiil Law Maktn are Pln -BartaalM Uoailp-Movome-nis rrmldeat and M . Clwrelaad. ; ' ' i , COXGRKftStOXAJ.. ' " ' ,In the Senate Mr. Saulsbury introduced resolution declaring thiit no further ef fort eon proerly be made by the United States to obtain the tw-ojx nitinn of Eu ropean governments in establishing com mon ration pf value between silver aud gold, a money. Laid on the table. Bill and rcsejiutlons were introduced and referred, by Mr. Manderson. to In crease all Invalid pension to if )n month, A statement .ccompn) ing He bill says that it will increaiw the cnsiom of 140,883 persons now tarried oa the pension roll, and will increase the an nual pension payments by f 0,75:1,353. By Mr. liiddlcberger, for the erection of public building at Newport News, to cort 1100,000. The resolution offered by Mr. Hale, on the 12th of iKt cmU r, for a select committee to examine fullv into the present condition of the civil service, was taken up, and Mr. Hale ' ad dressed the Senate in explanation and ad vocacy of it, Adjournment without ex ecutive sessixn was due to the- determina tion of some senators to iusist upou a con sideration of Mr. Lamar's nomination in advance of Messrs. Vila and Die klm u, and the foowqttcnt prosper! of a some what prolonged struggle which none were anxious to enter ujion so late in the ory. Tn the House the Sieakcr, as the first business in order, proceeded to call the committees, but no report of ny e har arter were snhmitrcd. The House then, on motion of Mr. Mills, of Texa. went iato the committee of the whole (M -Creary, of Kentucky, in the chair), Umji the state of the Union, for consideration of the President' 31eagc. Mr. Mill offered s resolution referring the Mcssagr to the committee on ways ami im-nns. The resolution was agreed to and the committee having risen, its action w confirmed by the House. Mr. Randall, front the committee on appropriations, reported a resolution calliug on the S- e Mary of the Treasury fur a w hedule : all claims allowed by accounting office r of the Treasury uodw the npirooriatioi s. the balance of which have been ex hausted or carried into the surplus fund imlev the provisions of the art .f Jui.e SO, 1874. Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, in speaking to the resolution, laid d wn the funeral proposition that Congress should make anticipatory appropriations fi.r the payment of claims and Mr. Iked, of Maine, inquired whether Mr. Randall Wuld permit the House to vote up m proposition to mske w h apptopiiittiem. Mr. Ilandall disclaimed any power t pre vent the vote being taken, a li ;.in m which had little weight ith Mr. !!. i. who gave it aa his experience tint ih gentleman from Pennsylvania very f . n had power to prevent votes being 'taken. The resolution was adopted, mid the House went into committee of the hob , (Mr. Coi, of New York, in the chaii.i on U little deficiency bill. In the Senate a bill was introduced by Senator Edmunds to incorporate the Ma rine Canal Coniny of Nicaragua, for the rBtniction of a ship canal from the At lantic to the Pacific coast through Nicar agua, partly through Nicaragua and part ly through Costs Rica. A bill to credit and pay to the several states and t rrito 'w and the District of Columbia, all taoncy collected under the direct tax act f August, 1881, reported by Mr. Mor rill from the committee on finance, on the 13th of December, was taken from the calendar and considered. Mr. ('hand ler ffered a resolution instructing the ju tliciary committee to inquire into tin- sop yressionof votes of coioreil -itiiisof acksoo. Miss., at the recent election in that city, anil into the ili ut arti illation in nu ll suppri -i u )y a United Btate distrii t attoiiie :.', by n lqmty collector of internal n: ! nue ami deputy United BUtes marshal; laitoiith table. The rkimte then pna eded (. th mnsidcrhtion of the Itlair clunitioual bill, and Mr. Wilson, of Maryland, nmdi n constitutional argument against it. . bill was introduced by Mr, Muth r, au thoriting tlie secretary of the tnasury t" retire all outstanding army antl navy Vcr tificates to lands in Booth Carolina by payments to holders of rrrtilhates o'l amount actually jwid on the same, with Interest at si per cent. The Henste then took up, executive business. Mr. Ed munds, from the judiciary committee, malean adverse rcKirf oMlic nomination of L. tj. C. Iimar to lie MHswiate justice of the rnipreme Court, and Mr. I'ujth, in la-half of the minority of the same com milter, substituted a favorable rtnt. Plac ed on the calendar. In the House, the Beafcer announced the piointment of Mr, Wheeler, of Ala "ma, and Mr. Phelps of Xew Jersi-y, as memlwra of the hoard of regents of the HniHhsonlan Institute. Mr. Iturns, of Missouri, from the committee on Appro isriallons, reported the rg. nt dellciency liill, and it was referred to the coimiiille'e of the whole. Also memorials of the New Orh-ans Maritime Association and of the Mcft hanta Exchange and H.mrl .f Trade of Portland, Me., favoring the propose.! txKition of the three Americas: which were referred to the select commit fee on that subject. The call of stab for the introduction of bills whs proceeded with. 1J Mr. tlallinger, of New Hamiisliire.for be protec tion of the public si rvh e. I bis nil requires the flismWa ,.f ail H t.us , , f." Jic rnl who are nt citieis of the I niled Btates, either by muivitv i "aturaiiMlion. ft Mr. NichoU, ol No, b Carolina, for the repe al of tl, jnurnal wvChue laws. Uy Mr. McOlunimv, of North Carolina, for the erection of a "pub lic building uti Fayottcville, N. V. Hv Mr. Simmons, of North Ciirolina, for the erection of a public building at N'cwbcru. N. i'. By Mr. Harmer, of I'ennsylvanin, to increase the jeiinioii( of thone who have lost eyes or limbs, or who are deaf. This is the bill indorsed by the United Mutes Maimed Soldier's Lcaguo uii'l Cniud Army of the Republic. :.t Uy Mr, Enloe, f Tcnneswe, to punish dealer In counterfeit motiev nr preteiideil counterfeit money, fly Mr. Wise, of Virginia, for the erection of a public building nt Manchester, Va. By Mr T. II. Biownc, of Virginia, to grant pensions to. widow and orphans of surfinen w ho lose? their lives in the line of duty; hIbo for the erection of a public building at Newjwrt News. GOSSIP. The Secretary of the Treasury has ap pointed Win. Cobb to be store-keeper at Owentou, Ky. Congnssmnn Elliott, of South Caro lina, hm secured the eslabiislmii'iit of a Mistot1iee at Brow n's iba k. Sumter Com: ty. S. C, with W. J. Brown ns poslnu ter. John 11. Wriga'. of Tennessee, ( iiiel of the Mineral Division ia the General Land Ofli, has laca appointed Chief Law Clerk of the General Land Office, Vice John LeBarnes, removed. The Secretary of the Treasury has a pointed JobnT. S. Hood to be storekeeper and guager at Collettsville. X. C, and James C. Parleir to lie, storekeeper and gu.iger at Moravkn Falls, X. C. Hon. L. C. ' amar, N-t rotary of the Interior, has resigned his lK..;i'ti'j:; to avoid embarrassment to the Governmeiit, pending his continuation as judge on t e ?'.llriiie Court bench. Appearances now indicate he viii Ik; coMl'iiined a judge. The Commissioner of Pensions has re quested an aproi)riatior. fur the next year of fifty additional clerks, tell of clas one; 100 of the f 1,000 class and thirty copyists at i(H) per annum, to be employccl until the expiration of tte present term of Congress. Tlie Pn-sideut has received a lawiti f ully engrossed cony of the proceedings of a public meeting of Catholics of Rich mond, Va., held in celebration of the ju bilee of Pope Leo XIII, at which resolu tions were adopted thanking the Presi dent "for the honor he lias paid to our Holy Father's golden jubilee." The Postmaster General has let con tracts for carrying the mails in the cov ered wagons prescribed by the department Wtween post-offices, railroad stations, station offices and steamboat landings from July 1, 1nh, to June HO, 192, a follows: In Wilmington, N. C, A. B. Sandlin, fnto per annum; Charleston, S. C, Theo. S. Gaillard, J.t'M); Savannah. Ga., It Y. Woodlief, J.IST. The Corean embassy arrived in Wash tngtoq, and are quartered at a hotel, where they will remain until a residence for their accommodation lias Ih-cu se cured. Dr. Allen, foreign sec retary of the embassy, said that a very friendly feeling towards America had grown up in Core. China, he said, was bitterly opiioscd to Cores' establishing legations abroad, and did not like the progress Core was making in civilization, nor the iiidetiendent stand she had taken toward the Celestial Empire. UK Wll.l. MOW MMI, The Supreme Court of North Cnroli'ia has rendered a decision in a case which, perhaps, has no parallel in legal anna!s A man in biiiuti county was indicted for disturbing rcligioiu worship a grave misdemeanor in that t etc. It w stated that he was a member of Methodist church, and that he sang in mcli a wav as to disturb the entire congregation, hi voice bcin j heard after the voice of all the other singers had Ceased. The case went la-fore the Superior Court, nod the trial was very interesting. It was that the eoiiLfrcgation had been so greatly dis turlied by it that the preacher had posi tively declined to "give out" any hymns, and that the presiding elder of the district liad refused to conduct service iu the church at all. Ihe rase going against "the sweet singer in Israel,'' he took an appeal to the Bopr- me Court, which ren dered the opinion that conscientious" singer causing a disturbance, though he disturbs others, such disturbance is not an indictable offense. IMII.KOlll Atllilfc.Vr. A terrible accident hefel a passenget train on the Chester ii b-noir Railroad. The train proceeded safeiyo-i its journey until it reached trestle two miles north) of Hickory, N. C, which sm! ienly gsvn way, precipitating the entire train, with the exception of the engine, t.i ttw ground beneath, a distance of alsmt twenty fc;!. The coach, sere pibtj one upon the other, the first class conch iihui the second-class and the latter on the express and mail car. In a few minutes the cars caught fir,' trmn tne stoves, an I were soon entirely consumed. Fortu nately there wen- only five passengers on hoard the train at the time of the disas ter; Rev. Mr. Bell was painfully, though not seriously injured in the head, the other passenger sustained only slight bruises. nr-ATiM iMvriit A plot against the ciar of Kussia has been discovered and numerous person, including several army officers, havelm n arrested on the charge of la ing impli csudin U, The conspirac y ng in t the cwr had it centre in St. I'tleNiiHg, and wa of unusual magnitude as regard both number and position of persons im plicated. Among them are several otli rein of the army, who had just airived in St. Petersburg from the provinces. THE BUSY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE EVER PRESEST NEWSPAPER MAN. The Farapean Tawvrs Preparing for a threat trle-lrua jkflalra-Nternt', Itallroad Aeeldents. Hulrldsa, rie. Ario Pardee, of Hoyletod, Pa., has lie gun ejecting his striking miner from the ir homes. The steamer VioUj thirty-three dnyi out from Elba bound for Philadelphia, Pa., ia feared to have been lost with hei crew of thirtv-eiuht men The two houaea of the Kentucky Leg islature, in joint session, elected Mr. Beck, for the third successive term, in the United States Senate. The British gunboat Forester, laden with marines, has started for the Island of Lewis to quell the disturbance umoug the Scottish crofters there. Thirty thousand persons iu Montenegro have been dcpried"of food by the floods. The czar bus sent a ship load of corn from Odessa to relieve the distress. The Cambria, Pa,, Iron Company, em ploying .1,000 Blon, decided to make a reduction in wages of ten per cent; iu two weeks unless business improves. The bodies of fourteen women hive been dug out of the snow near Fiume. Austria. Many are still missing, and it is supposed they are buried beneath the. mow. News from Shanghai, China, says that a fanatical outbreak has occurred iu the province of Tukien. Twenty Christian churches have been burned and the con verts massacred. Wilfred Diunt, the English gentleman and M. P.; quickly donned the prison garb at Dublin, Ireland, und has resigned himself to performing the duties and obeying the rules of the prison. Micnger Hancock, living near Mono, Ind., celebrated the 100th anniversary of his birth recently. He is a grandson of John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and was Iwm in Dela ware. An epidemic has broken out among the Indians at Poplar River, Montana. Doc tor pronounce i'. erysipelas and conn giou. About twenty have died. The cause is close confinement and bad venti 1 ition. Two ChinamenDan Lee and Phil Wingwere formally baptized and ad mitted to the church at Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, X. Y. Tbey arc believed to be the first Mongolians ever received in a church of of this faith in America. Rev. John Lowther, rector of Bolton, near Wigtonia, England, has committed suicide by shooting. Previous to the act he had received a summons to answer to a criminal charge. The deceased was a cousin of Lord Lonsdale and a relative of Rt. Hon. James Lawther. Reuben Crawford, for many year chief inspector .of the United States revenue department for North Carolina, East Tennessee and North Georgia, but more recently in charge of a more extensive field, with headquarters at Cincinnati, died at Detroit, Mich., after a brief ill ness. A fit fight took plac e at Pittsburg. Pa., Ix'twccn Attorney-General Garland's son and a son of Senator Jones, of Arkansas, over the affections of Assistant Secretary Muhlrow's daughter. Jones won the tight, and, according to the stipulation, liar land has withdrawn in Jones' favor. The IlritishbrigKiblonan, Capt. Grant, arrived at Baltimore. Md., and rejwrts that in the Gulf Stream, latitude W de gree north, longitude 03 degrees 30 min utes west, she J Hissed through six mile of floating timber, which was a portion of the great raft that broke away from the steamship Miranda. Emily Lewi, aged forty years, of Day ton, Ohio, left her home, dressed only in her night clothes and jumped into the canal. A rescue being attempted, she resisted and managed to drown herself in spite of every effort to get her on shore. Religious excitement is thought to have deranged her mind. Tlie Poe received the British pilgrims, at the Vatican, who were presented by the Duke of Norfolk. The Pone, reply ing to an address presented to him by the pilgrims, said he felt grateful for the in terest tpun Victoria took in her Catho lic subjects, ami prayed fr her prosis-r-ity with that of her nation, whom he loved and admired. He hoitcd for a res toration of pear In-twecn different parts of the kinudom, and that irritating qocs tions which now divide it would la- set tied. The Chicago Postal Telegmph Coiii ny, an Illinois corporation, wnich obtain ed a charter a month siro at Spriiit-tleM, ha notified the authorities at Washing ton, I). ('., of its acceptance of t ie c.o ditinns of the law in relation to televrnph companies, pa-scd July 24, 1K0. By tlie terms of that law the company, iu con sideration of allowing the Government's dispatches priority over all others and aendinir them at rate lo ne fixed ty th postmaster ueneral, is permitted to btidd and npcinte lines along any M,t r.; In other word, any railroad over which the United State mail is cairicd. The com pany will co-oH!tate with the Mackey Bennett system at Sherman', I cxa. roi.n. TF.RV C'M.. The thermometer at Minneapoli,Minn., registered 83 degree liclow cro. At Hallock, Minn., the thermometer regis tered 54 degree liclow xero, the lottom of the register l-clng renched. Other northwest town in that state teport 21 to 4 degiee below, , TEBRIBLEACCIDINT On a, .llaisarhusetls Railroad, by XVhirb Alans' Person are Killed and Wonoded. The express trait) which left Boston, Mass., for Portland Maine, met with u serious accident at Bradford, while cross ing Haverhill bridge, over the Mcrrimnc river, The train consisted of a locomo tive and eight car. It had liaised on to the bridge from tho Bradford side in safe ly, when suddenly the forward trucks of the smoker broke. The smoker was hurl ed upon its side and two coaches wero thrown off the track and completely wrecked, being piled up against the Bradford car-hou6e. The tpiin wa ou tinfe and running at the ordinary speed. A fire alarm was sounded immediately and the department responded, but thejr services were not needed, as the cars did not take fire. Physicians were summoned, and the wounded and dying were rapidly cared for. The work of clearing the wreck was immediately pushed forward with energy, and the bodies taken from the wreck!" Several-of them were disfig ured beyond recognition. The train does not stop at Bradford, and was going at a jfrcat speed. The Georgetown branch train whs standing on the track near the w ater tank-house, nt the Bradford end of the briige, waiting for the express to pass over to Haverhill. As the express round sd the curve, twd cars left the rails and went crashing into and demolishing tho water-tank house. In this house rt num ber of section hands were eating dinner. I. O'Brien, a retired merchant of Brad ford, wa talking with the section hands uid was killed, together with Taylor, one f the laborers. The car that crashed in to the tank-house knocked the foundation ant, letting the heavy tank down upon :he car, crashing through the top of the air, and doing fctrful work within. The next car behind telescoped the car ahead jf it, adding to the havoc. The killed and wounded were mostly in those two ears. Those instantly killed were: Clarence Hazlewood, residence un known; John O'Brien, of Bradford; C. P. Goodwin, wife and child, of Kennebunk, Maine; William Taylor, sec tion hand; A. L. Walker, of Harrison, Maine; Charles Thurlow, of Newton Junction, N. II. ; Josephus Shaw, of Bos ton Fourteen people were too seriously hu t to le moved from Haverhill. Some if them will undoubtedly die. LOOKS) WARLIKE. the Warsaw (Russian-Pol ni) arsenal is worklncr dav and nitrht. A cTovo more extensive earthworks and detached forts are being constructed and the defense at Ivnn-gorvelare are lieing i.rmed with heavy guns. Cracow papers "report thai the Russian are erecting a linclge at tint junction of the Sen with the Vistula, and are forming there also a cavalry camp. They also report that 4,000 ambulanca beds were distributed along the station on the Vistula line. Another division ot cavalry has left Hischcneff an.i a division of grenadier has gone from Rigs. Both divisions are bound for Poland. The total force of Russians in the Warsaw, Wiln.i and Kieff districts according to a mili tary estimate, reaches 335,000 men, with 720 buds. editors rraiftiiED. Timothy Harrington, M, P., wa placed on trial at Tralee, Ireland, on the charge of publishing in the Kerry Senti f reports of meeting of suppressed branches of the National League. Hi brother, Edward, who wa convicted and sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a similar charge, wa called a a witness, and he testified that bis brother had no share in the management of profits of the tontind end was entirely ignorant of the alleged illegal matter published therein. Mr. Harrington was found guilty and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. Mr. Corcoran, publisher of the Cork Ex aminer, was tried and sentenced to two, month' imprisonment without hard la bor for publishing reports of meeting of lupprawed branches of the League. Hl.l. WKST uowv The consignees of the two mistet schooner Mary S. Tibbctts. : pt. Keen, bound from Virginia to Philadelphia with pine wood, fear that she has been lost with all hands. She has not la-en heard from since leaving Hampton R.,ls. The missing vessel sailed from Hampton Roads with the' schooners t'. G. Cram mer, I. & E. Keilcy and W. W. Pharr... All of these vessels were caught in a ter rific hiirrinine the following clay. The two latter were lost. Crammer got into port with the assistance of the revenue cutter Hamilton, having six feet of watct in her hold, and otherwise badly damaged. It is feared the Tibbctts went down with all hands. RMAM-rox t riovnu m. There arc indication of a ossibte small pox epidemic in the lodging houses on the Bowery in New York City. A man suffering from the small (six was re cently removed from a lodging house, and altogether six lodgers in vaiioiis cheapresorts have la-en sent to the small pox hospital. The number of deaths fr in small pox in Havana dtirimr one month wa 74. The government will apKint a committee conixcd of ove. one bundled person for the purHis of effecting all that science sugg sts toward eradicating the disease. wccrrriwii mtiT. Trouble ha occurred among the crofter of .Aiginsh district in Viiicshl, Invcrne-shj-e, Scotland. Landed crofter to the number of 1.000 drove sheen off their farms, and offered determined resistance to the police. Troops were tent to the scene. Number were wounded on both Ides. Man tif thai cwiften m-n nr. rested. SOUTHLAND D0TT1NGS, INTERESTING NEWS JTE3IS tOK msr PEOPLE, The Hnclnl, ltelllnii and Temperance World-ProJrrli-d Knterprlaeo-Mar. rlnge. Flrra, Hem lis. Hie. The Georgia Terminal Railroad Com pany, with a capital of 11,000,000, has been organized at Atlanta, Ga. It will build a Union Depot and a belt line around Atlanta. the Vicksburg, M'm.,t'(nmerfial Mr attl't building, newspajier, job office nnd bindery,- were recently burned tip. The insurance on the; building and stock is ? 15, 000. Benjamin Burton, a young member of the Atlanta, (ia., fire department, was ar rested, charged with having married four young ladies, and was held to bail. A fifth one appeared on the scene, and then Burton skipped his bail. It is alleged around Gainesville that Tilman C, J. Justice, the moonshiner who was hanged in November for the murder of an informer, was cut down while still breathing and allowed to es cape, and that he is now alive and well. Tlie Mexican Central passenger train, bound for El Paso, Texas, was held up forty miles south t El Paso by train robber.- The robbers were American aiid were armed to tho teeth. They rob bed the express car, getting quite u sum of money. I he band of "regulators" w hich lynched three men in Roane county, West Vir ginia, last Octob-r, for the murder ol Rev. Thos. P. Ryan, were themsclvi the murderers, and they lynched innocent men in order to divert suspicion from themselves. Tlie Louisville & Nashville Railroad directois have determined to accept tin prowu! of the London stockholder to use the profits of the next two years in the extension and improvement of the property, giving a two cr cent, dividend iu new stock ou present stock. E. E. Chatham was elected snperin tendent of the scavenger department, in Savannah, Ga. The office is a new one recently created, the city having de cided to manage its own scavenger work, instead of lett ing it out by contract. The office pays $ 1,200 a year. A movement i on foot in Western Texas and Southern New Mexico to se cure aid from the U. 8. Government if possible, in building a monster irrigating caal from two to two hundred and thirty miles long, for the pttrpose of reclaiming vast tracts of land that are Tw arii wastes. Richard II. Sausoin, assistant postmas ter at Knoxville, Tenn., and son-in-law of the late Gen. Zollicoffer. was indicted by the grand iury of the United States circuit court in thirteen counts for em bezzling if:!. I'M! of the postotlice funds. Sansom is related to many of the best families in Middle and Wi st Tennessee. Sl. D. Bloth, a ticket scalper of Bir mingham. Ala., was arrested on a war rant sworn out by II. . True, a drum mer, who lnHiifht a ticket to Memphis from Bloch. Tin- ticket was to a print beyond Memphis, and True wa given an order on a broker in the latter city for rebate. Tin order was dishonored, an. I Bloch refused to refund the money, which .wised his arrest. The Siiithern Hotel, at Sherman. Texas, and two private residences were destroyed by tire. The following jsTsons were injured: A. A. Leard. proprietor of the hotel, badly bumcl almt the face. arms and isniy; l,ie is. .inns, naiiiy burned and bruised ; Mrs. Leard, severely I injured by jumping from the second story i balcony Lou Lowe, a fireman, jumped I from tlie second storv, cut and bruised;! At Meredith, a fireman, hands, arms, face and head badly burned. Col. Charles Collins, of Savannah, Ga . formerly master mechanic with the old Atlantic? A' Gulf Railroad, has patent, l a milk snake which is now In-ing suc cessfully operated. An electric nwtot wilt run the shaker, which i an ingenioit invention. The cups containing tin syrup and milk are charged with elec tricity, and the beverege i supposed to be electrified while being miv.'d. pa-, tons can get a slight electric shock while waiting, if they desire it. THE GREAT STRIKE. sitagnnllan Ilia Hole all Tbrouu the, T, rill or J of l'iinslvnnla's t'onl licWs. A conference was held in Jersey City,, X. J., between the representatives of the various trades involved in the Reading strike, and it was decided that the men, be ordered out of the Wyoming mines.! This action, it was raid, would practi-j rally stop work in the anthritcice coal) region. A prominent member of the district assembly 49 said the same day that the Knights had fully made tip their minds to fight this strike to the bitter end,: and would make no attempt now to se cure arbitration. The closing of fho Wyoming thine would result, he added,,' iu thousands of men being thrown out of work from want of fuel ter run factories nnd mills. At the cav shops in Reading, Pa., the books show; that the number of coal cars' in active service on the road fa about 40, 000. Xc.uiy all those are now lying iellc, on the sidings in the coal regions. Sham-i okin appears to be the hotbed of thej orescnt strike, and where most feeling ia) 'lierwn against the non-union men.i A rneetli;; of the Central Labor Union was he ld in New York, at which Bernard Davis presided. The coal boatmen n-l nounce that they are about to distributer' tlii'ir union card among coal dealers cm-, ploying none but union men, aiid they, asked that all organized workmen should; Imy the ir coal only from such dealers hav- ing a union card displayed in their of tiecs. Upon motion of the representative of the m'xeei trade section, resolution were adopted denouncing the Readingj Railroad company for causing thegreatj strike of the coal miner, by which tha welfare of the entire population ha been alTt :ed, iu raising the price of coal in sucb a season as this. The furnace of, the Pottsvllle Iron and Steel company, three in number, will be compelled to suspend work at once for want of coal. The rolling mills of the same company have sufficient coal in stock to last for some time; sin uld coal become exhausted before additional supplies can be obtained, bituminous coal will Im substituted. Not-i withstanding the claim that there is noj interruption of traffic on tlie Reading; Railroad, in conseepiene e of the strike, reliable reports from Tremont, Tower City, and othrr points say that no freighe trains have reached rln re, and merchaats are making serious complaiut. FIRES. A fire broke out at Eufaula, Ala., in Tullis'a crockery store and gutted the buildinir. The latest nilviccs arc to the effect that the fire is raging beyond control and that the entire block is threatened. The gas is turned off, tlie wi'r supply is exhausted, and the iuliab it!!iit.ae punic-stricken. A large four story brick building at the southe ast cor ner of Madison street and the- river in Chicago, 111., was burned; probable- loss of s."i.O00. The occupants were Nono tuek Silk company; A. Ellinger, suits and cloaks; John A. Griffith ii Co., tailors' trimmings, and T. J. Miny & Co.. boos and shoes. The stock of all area total loss. Bent county court house, at Lis Animas, Col., burned; all records In ing destroyed. The loss is a very se rious one, but cmnot he computed in dol lars and cents. The Alabama. Florida A Atlantic Rail- ! it" Just Like a Woman. 'I've just had my pocket pieled!' exclaimed a middle am d woman as she hurrie dly entered dete ctive headrpiartcrs recently. When did it omn-!" he wa was asked. "In a store in Woodward avenue and I know it was a young man w ho stood near me." "How much nioui'V did y.m have iu it;" "I can't snr, sir. You 8., it was tin wiy. I came down to ,1 nomc shop ping. I put my rlmoiiiiiu in my ! jxH-ket when I ' h'lt home. When I ! went to pay for the go l in a store it j was gone'. " I think I had almt eight ! dollar." "Did any one have an oppportunity j t piedt your pm-ketf" "I ailppoMi they did." i '"Hiiro you brought tho money down : teiWIlf" "Oh. Ves." "And "vou arc ce-rtain you did'nt loao rosnl. now building from Clay Spring's, Fla.. via Eitsti. Flu., is to connect with the Ma, "ii & Florida Railroad nt Gaines ville, Fla. John W. P.rcnsoti is tho president ol the Alabama. Florida & Atlantic Railroad. He is a rich New Torker. who, whe n a young man, clerked in Columbus, . The Orange Belt Rail road is also building rapidly from the St. Ji.Ktts rtvaip fli- if.ilra ti..rth of Sfifiir,l going "near to Clay Spriiiirs. on its way to it on the stand after you le ft the honse, "Do vou think me a fd, sir?" ho in lignantlv ewhum-d. "Wheii I say I hud my' p s ki f picked I know what I'm talking ntsait." "I hoiH' mo, madam, but ym know 9 At thia moment a ly entered tho room with the potimotniuo in his hand and said: "Her,-' vour motiev, ma. We found Point Pinellas, on the Gulf of Mexico. At the term of the circuit court which convene,! at Jackson, Tenn.. one of the nvwt Important suits for damage ever tried in the state was called. It is the case of Rev. Frederick Howard, D. D.. pastor of the Central Baptist church, fur fld.iMH) damagi-s imainst sixteen of the leading mcmi'cr of the First Baptist church, including the pastor, and also acaitist the FrM Ilrrr ItMf, of that city; the Trunrnmr t,fiV, of Mem phis, and Ihe H)4it. Krf trior, of Chattanooga. The paH-:s ine billed ill the suit published astrong article in !'. signed hv sixteen memler of the First Baptist church, in whie h the past record and Sarah wtit me down to the tor after ym." Tine wtintun and the serge-nut 1, Miked fixedly at each othe r fr n fowr seaonds. 'I hen lie smile I. Then she got red. Then he said he was pUtd she had got her tnemev, and ho ivbtfii'd: "1 don't believe it: You just wish I bad lost it! I'll never eme here for bedp again. Never." Ihtnit Frt l'rtm. It Dejiendtd on Ilia l.nrk. A young wag uptown started out with hi gun ine-nscei iti.canvu to tke t t'ain for Sullivan County the other day, and met a lady of great heart and of Dr. Howard was taunted in very dark .- , eilUr9 1 "Do you mean to tell me," she asked, "that ye u are deliberately going to shoot .) 4m lijnij ii,oicniv ni- A Swiss alarm clock produce t the Ui;i' " . ... .. , hour for which it is et a r. mter who manm. ne repiie-i, i win not crow loud and shrill cno,,-.., to ..uiekly ; ? " ' J"."'? ' , swsken even the man who irllrcd v, ry 1 H' lothm but my late.
Hillsboro Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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Jan. 19, 1888, edition 1
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