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WE'LL HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE, CKIP8 FALL WHERE THEY MAY. VOL. I, . 1IILLSBORO, K C, THURSDAY, MARCH 29. 1888. NO. .u TERRIBLE CYCLONE SPRIXGS IXtO VEISO IS TKG GULF Of MEXICO, A MacNilliieat 'Kleelvleal DUpla? ta Mu krvdea Ul a Wind. TSai Haul UlTM mi lnalhlU:taadI.rri. The recent storm which wepi ,ovet Georgia wa dipped around from pi Hie to pluce in a nvmiter at once bewilderiuif, and sensational! From the fatal visit to Lumber City to the house-smashing in Cal houu was a long distance, but the coun try between, was pretty well spotted with mailer wrecks.' The storm sreuis to have blown up from the Gulf, that fruitful net of tornsdoe, and, upon striking the western border of Georgia, to have coiuo lu colliniua wltJi somethWK wtiTCh iui;.1 it to part into two columns. One of these passed on through tho Chattahoochee volley, and escaped across Calhoun into Tcunossce, where it went careening: on its way of destruction. , The other, after its fatal work in Lumber City, crossed the state into South and North Carolina, and spent its force on the At Urn tie. Con sidering the extent of tba disturbance, the fatalities were very few. The day was the most beautiful one of the Spring. It was perfect Spring day, and when tbe sun went down there was no indication of the storm, which was then hanging over the country, and the people with no thought of the dan gers to which they were to be subjected before another day came, sought their homes. The disturbance coniraeuced about half past ten o'clock at night. Then the lightning began to flash. At first, the flaahe were at irregular inter vals and were followed by lotd rumbling far away thunder, but in a abort time the lightning became brighter and more rap id, and tbe thunder louder, more di timt and nearer. Finally, the flashes became one continuous flame, and the thunder kept pice with it. So bright and continuous were the flashes that any portion of the country could be plainly seen almost constantly by those who were up. Just as thi electrical display ww most intent-, ruin began fulling. At first it came steadily in large drops, but in a minute a perfect deluge ensued. Then with the rain came tho wind; it was to tense. It moved along only as a cyclone can move, and with it houses, buna, fences and timber went down. It roared Slid moaned and went by like a flash. For ten minujtes it continued, and thea a calm ensued. The wind moved from the west to the east, an 1 went along with a roll aud dip, howling, whistling and singing, uuiil everybody was aroused. Its velocity was intense, and house waved and rocked upon their foundations until people, in many cases, fearing thst their dwellings would go over, ran out into the dreuchiog cold rain. Austell felt the effect of the cyclone most severely. The town is built upon two bills one upon the north aide -f the railroad and the other upon the south side. Between these two hills Is a nar row vale in which the business houses is located. The hills are considerably higher than tbe little vaUey, and ujoa them the greatest destruction to property and the lo of life occurred. 1 be most severe part of the storm divided just fast of the town audi leaving the vale untouched, swept the Mils upon either side. Ou the north side of the road aud just upon the top of tbe bill, Ttafe How ard, a negro blacksmith, had a boue which was struck with full force. Howard and hi wife were in one room iu bed, and their son, a boy of sixteen years, was in another room. When tbe wind Lit the bouse it rose and dropped back. Then it roe again and again dropped beck. Then the timber began creakinx, and in an instant the roof dropped in, the walls tumbled down and the Loue was fiat upon the ground, completely ruined. Howard waa in stantly killed, and his boy waa severely hurt; tbe wife etcaped serious injur. A burn near the residence of Mayor X. A. Morse was levelled, also a two story house built by Mr. Morse for Dr. I'otter of Mar-on', who was to oceupy it in April. Calhoun suffered the most of any place vivtcd by the cyclone. About half a minute before it manifested itself at Cal houn, it struck the reVuleueu of Farmer Gaines, about a mile and a half south west of the town. lie and hi family wrrc sleeping when the storm low thir hnse. They were covert with d -lttis but were uot seriously injured. The II 'ft building of any importance th:it rn struck was a saw-mill owned by 35. D. Giay. This was leveled to the ground. Tlx- wnik a complete. The colored Biplist church, fteur bv, was simultan eously tiii'i I to the earth. The wall aud c I! in','.' fi ll and crushed the benches And the pulpit to the earth. HnyiifVs hotel, a new mid liadomi building, was uot rumli damaged, but was fearfully wrwltnl and throw out of position. Tin- Westera & Atlantic railroad agent's hotiw, f mtu pled by Mr. WiUinjiharo as a hoarding home for school children, was blown to alum. Near by was situated a luiiuUorac residence, belonging to X. .I. lii.nr, and rented to a lady. The 'roof of this house waa blown off, the chimney were broken to pieces, and the window blind blown away. On the corner of the street waa a one story frame house, orenpied by an aged in gro wnra-m named Mary Montgomery nnd her two grandchildren. Thi was literally lift I off the ground and shikco into fragment, and the colored woman serlonily hurt. Mrs. Dyer' residence wn vis ted by the slonn, nod demolished. At the time, it waa unoccupied. Old Tom, the truck man at tho railway deiiot, was in hi bed nnd was Mown out into the darkness, twenty feet or more. 11 was Miverely rut in the head but will re cover. The n.llwy depot felt the fury f lha storm. It I a large, tulmtautinl brick building.' Every particlo of the tlu routing was blown off, aud much of the sheathing wn unloosed. Heavy boards were' Rutting through the air, and even the thick brick walls were broken. The general merchandise store of Hick & Eugrams was destroyed, entailing a lew of nearly 12,000. The Methodist, iliaptist and Presbyterian churches wew adly injured, and altogether the' Injury to property cannot be less than 10,000. The followiug is a partial list of the suf fererr.' M. L. Mathews, Gray (t Mima, J. B. T. Horrell,,Hlraes & King, J. N. Pat rick, J. B.. Johuson, "W. M. HukIiv, Hicks & Pitts, Mr. Pitts. G. W: lik-d, Keens & Malone, J. M. Horluu & Co., County Courthouse, Mr. Sue Fouler, Mrs. E. J. Simmons. 12. 3, Bicker, M. E. Ellis, Daniel Elli, T. M. , Ellis, Samuel Pullain, O. X. Wow., A. V. Ueeus. I. JL Bailou, J. M. NuuLi'trguaon & EoO ertsou, 11. F. Ferguson, Mrs.'-N'orcissus, Dr. J. II. Malone, X.' J. Itooz, B. G.Boo. Thvee year ago there was a half-witted colored girl iu the place who professed to be able to read iuto the future. .She would co up the side of the hilt and stay .there alone hours at a time. One after noon she came back very much excited and told several people that she had seen a strange sight; that something had come to her and told her that Calhoun was to be destroyed by a cyclone, March the 20th, ItWH. She was -o earnest, that somebody wrote up the iucident, and it was published. She missed it only one day. The turpentine works tf Whidden &' Holland, two miles north of Lumber City, were completely demolished, tbe still, commissary and every house and shanty being blown away. V. . YYhid don was sleeping in a house with his partner, and they rushed out to save themselves, but had ran only a few steps when the house was blown over on them aud crushed them so that they seemed to have hardly .an unbroken bone left iu their bodies, aud were killed instantly; all their clothing was blown from their bodie, except a amull fragment of Mr. YY hidden' under vest. Two other men, ateepiug in another house, were also crushed and killed by the house be ing blown down upon them. Several other persons were wounded aud injured, more or lees seriously. There was a lame tot of saw log iu Sugar creek. The storm. blew the water out of the creek tad turned the rft in a perpendicular position. The Tillage consisted of twelve or fifteen building aud two store, and there i not the sign of a house left. Tbe goods from tti store are scattered every where. Bolts of calico and shoes and grocene are to be found scattered iu all part of tbe storm area. , On the railroad side4track, before the cyclone came up, there were several can standing, some of them heavily loaded with Umber, but iu a few moments more they were one hun dred and fifty yards away from the track out in an old field. One of the most re markable things that occurred was tbe switch target. It was twisted off and carried away as if it bad been a mere shrub. Ilie turtientine distillery and saw mill were completely destroyed, and the lumber was scattered for one-half mile around. There were about 1,000 barrels of turpentine in the building, and these were sent up like rocketa in the air, and some of them were blown a half mile and scattered everywhere. In Lithonia a dozen other building were injured, some blown entirely down. The wind track waa about one half mile wide and took fences and Uvea before it, Frank Koxby, hi son, and aon-in-lasr wrre in a house when it was blown down. Ths timber fell upon them, and they were all hurt, Boxbv ' lujuries are the severest and it i believed that he will die. Ilia son-in-law's back was broken. Mrs. Sursin, living near be town, was struck by a piece of falling timber blown from her house, and badly .hurt. West Point, fatirauge. Palmetto, Xewnan aud Oritliu, Powder Spring, Marietta, Carters villa. Ove Springs, ltome and Cedar town did not suffer much. E. B. Hal comb' house, at Ackworth, was blown down a well a the Baptitt church, at Tallapoosa.' Tu; First Baptist church, (colored,) at Gainesville., was blown down, as well a Hood' brick cotton w arehouse at Har mony drove. Sims' steam mill, at Wash ington, was uuroofed, and a colored church in ecu mo of construction at that place was destroyed. A freight train from I.ula to Allien ran into a tree, which had been blown acrose then trance to a cut - The smokestack and fthitlleof the engine were- knocked off. A uegro brnketnan by tbe name of Bob ltcee was sitting on the top of a box car, when the tree struck him in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Talladega, Ala., miffercd badly. One tf the dormitories of the SUte University for the deaf, dumb and blind, had it ga ble end blown in, and covering the deaf unit f with the debris, breaking their bed into . splinter . without crloualt injuring? the bojt. Two mile from Talladega the beautiful iron bridge of the A. Jt A. H. R, span ting Talladega creek, wa piled by tho wind into a fl of ruins into the middle of the stream. ' The atorm seems to have divided up into sectional cyclones, tak ing various directions, switching, a it wtre, from the mala body of the hurri cane which swept northwest. Tbe wind which pawed over the asylum seems to have been about twenty yard in width, and was sweeping above the surface some forty feet, as it carried away the roof of the dormitory and olber building with out touching the hriibbery. Dispatches state that the hurricane wsni over East Tennessee. At and near Lenoir's much damage wit done, and several live loV The residence of J. II. Williams three mile cost of Le noir's, was completely ewept away, and Id wife ,.nled off in the wreck and killed. The body of Mr. William waa found next day in the Tennessee river, where It bad I ern blown. A few mile dislunt, another fl wetting was mown down and n youug man named Smith was kill ed, aud several other members of the family injured. The next residence struck by the storm was that of Geo. W. Hardin. The building waa totallv de molished, but the family escaped the storm, then crossed a timbered ridge, aud tyre up every tree by the roots in it track. Thc)iuiiie of James Linj,'iufolter wh Tcduced to kindling wood. In it were James R. Smith, who was killed, and a little daughter of Linglnfolter, who had a leg broken. Tbe dwellings of William Kiug and- John GUI eon weie blown down. Seven member of the King family wero badly injured, and two of the Gideons were so seriously hurt that they cannot recover,,' The house of La fayette Prater was a total wreck, and Jackson Prater whs bhwa over the gar den fence, bufcscapcl vith slight Injuries. The cycloue traveled in a northeasterly tlli-ectiou. A bureau iu the Williams house was found half a mile from whero the residence stood. At Londou, Tenn., the house of George Mows was completely destroyed, nnd every member of his family badly hurt. Andrew Wor lev's house was U'i carried away, and the members of hi family were seriously, injured- The bacon from Worley's smoke house was blown two mile away. Tho stoira was very severe along the Tennee aee river. - . . KENTUCKY'S TROUBLE. lire 8iaU Treasurer Is Half a Mltitoa Orraulier. eed Buaa Away, Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, sus pended the treasurer of the state. James W. Tate, who ia charged with defalca tion iu his office, tud who has fled from the state. The defaulting official has been treasurer for tweuty-uue year, lit was considered the soul of honor, and the new will prove a tremendous sensation throughout the state. A later ilispittch from Frankfort statca that an investiga tion immediately instituted on the recom mendation of Governor Burner dU closed a delli lt in Tate' office of $130. OOO, and that the irregularities seem to run bock eleven years. The discovery of Tale's shortage is a result of an examina tion of hi books, by an expert account ant Tbe Governor has placed the treas urer's ofiice in charge of Auditor Hew ett aud Attorney-General Pardin. Iu his message to the legislature. Governor Buckuer say he ha reasons for believing tbe deficit is large and that an immediate investigation tie ordered. Iu the Uouw a committee was at ouce appoiuted aud or dered to prosecute the investigation iu connection with officer in charge of tho office. Pending the investigation the office will be closed, Tbe state 1ms abundant resources at baud. All current expense, payments, dues, etc., will be met without interruption or delay. Treasurer Tate's bond is for 300,0ob. aud the shortage is well covered. He was in Louisville recently, when he wm observed to be driuking hard, an unusual thing for him. Since that time he ha not been seen and his whereabout is unknown. Jamea William Tate was elected Slate Treasurer in 187, having been nominated by the Democrats, lit has been re-elected continuously at each election aince, making his teuure of office twenty year on August Slt Wt. In the last campaign Tate had no opio silion for the nomination. Everybody laughed at the idea of opposing "Honest Old Tate." He received the Democratic nomination for the tenth consecutive lime. Hi majority ha always stood among the largest on his ticket, nnd merry, honest, joky "Dick" Tate has been one of tbe most widely known and universally liked men in Kentucky. In addition to being state treasurer, he was commissioner of the sinking fund, and wet one of those entrusted with tbe man agement of tho state penitentiary. The exact amount of his shortage it is not pos sible, a yet. to state, but it fat anywhere from $130,000 to $400,000. Wliat haa become of the money no one can tell. Tate never speculated sor gate bled. He is said to have been an extravagant liver, but year bv year the money haa lropd out, the shortage seeming to run back a dozen year. ANARCHI8T8 MOVING. Otto Rekhelt, took -keeper of tiietr kittr Zeitutiff, iu Chicago, lib, was placet! in jail on a capias issued under auit brought against him ly the Socimiatic Puhliidiiug Coiupanv, the otlicersof which claim that he filched f 300 of their money during lSMT. Itcichelt denies this and Jtromiscato make thing lively for the lireetors. He claim that the real reason for bis arrest is that hi enemies believe that he was a spy for rapt Shonck and Slate Attorney Grinuell when they wero prosecuting Spies, nnd the other Anar chists who were hung. He denie that he divulged any of tbe Anarchist' se cret, but aver that he will open hi mouth now and tell some thing Anar chist will not care to hear. "W hy he said, "the Anarchist meet c ry wet k. Several group meet away out on Blue Island avenue, several on Claybourn avenue, and some meet on Milwaukee avenue. They are getting stronger than ever." , THEY DECLINED. Tbe engineer on the Louisville & Nashville Kailroad at Decatur, Ala., re fused to pull freight train to which Q"' car was attached. The car waa then taken out and turned over to the Memphis 4 Charleston, whose engineer also refused to move it The Illinois Central engineer at Jackson, Tenn., re fused to pull train until three Burling ton cart were cut out and side-tracked, which wa done. At Fulton, Ky., the comttsnv wa obliged to refuse several Burlington car from tle Chcsajicake ft Ohio for the Dime reason. It is generally understood on the line of tho Illinois Central South that the engineer will handle no "0," cars. NATIONAL CAPITAL. lTJMESTJXa VOTSABOVT OUR IXUKD STATES' OFFICIALS. JmIi Ahat lit Willi Hoaes-AraiV aa4 Srr MaiUra-OurftelHllaa Willi Oihar t'aiiairles aod aUoaa. . , , cojiflBEsaroxAt. In the Senate, a .bill from .the House' was placed ou the calendar to authorize the construetion of a lirldge aerofs the Tenuciaoe river at Chattanooga. The consideration of hill ou the calendar in their regular order to which no objec tion was made, was taken up, and passed a number, principally of a local or prl vkte 'thatacter. -Among Jhe-bUl ao passed are the following: Authorizing ihe construction of bridges over the Ten nessee river between Bridgeport and Sheffield, iu Alabama, aud over Carey Fork river, between Hock Island and Carthagena, Tcnn. To provide for a commission on the subject of the alcoholic liquor traffic. The commission is to be "nou partisan." Its members shall be chosen with regard to personal fitness. ....Lithe House, the 'following bill were passed : To divide! tbe northern judicial district of Georgia into two di visions to bo known as the eastern and western district of the northern district. To provide for holding terms of the United States courts at Mississippi City. Amending the statute ao as to provide that the record of a state court may be cerlitied by the presiding magistrate or auy other judge of the court -Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to re mit all duties collected upon ' uuimals heretofore imported for breeding pur poses, whether for the Importer's use or for sale. In the Senate, among the bills reported from committee and placed on the cal endar were the followiug: To eucourage the holding of a natioual iudiutrial ex position of the arts, inechardcs and pro ducts of the colored race in tbe United Hates iu 1S8S 89, and appropriating $400,000 in it aid. (Wulerable de bate took place on Mr. Blair movement lu behilf of Confederate soldiers, Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, appearing to voice the feeling of the Southern member when he said : "The Confederate soldier had boldly laid down the gauntlet of war, nnd when he came out of the war lie !md contempt for but two classes of men engaged iu It first, those who made apologies; and aeeond, those who de manded them.' Question of great in ternal Mrife-and of great civil conflict never descended to personalities, but were governed by great philosophic of human existence. He bad no doubt that the Senator from Xuw Hampshire had introduced the bill in a spirit of benevo lence, kindness aud generosity, but it had not been called for by any Confederate, uor had it grown out of the demand of public uutiuient." The Senate then Msst.-d bills to provide for the warehous ing of fruit brandy; for the relief of ironclad builders the Perinea and the McKays; touching the grade of com mander in the navy, and to correct an order iu relation to an appointment therein (this wa the esse of Commander ljuackenbuch and caused considerable debate).... lu the morning hour, tbe House resumed consideration tion of the resolution assigning two days for the transaction of business reported by the committee on labor. Opponents of the resolution, led by Mr. Rogers, of Arkausas, proceeded to obstructive method to prevent action. Mr. O'Xeill, of Missouri, stated that he wa willing to amend the resolution by striking out .the ctaute limiting the time of debate on each measure called up. He would do this, he said, in order to remove the pre text ucder which the gentlemen were re lori'uur to filibustering - tactic. "I will tell these gentlemen,'' he said, 'that you (indicating Mr. Rogers; have tnlkcd'uut thi morning hour; that you have accomplished your ptu-ioe, and you have -.imply been the tool that had been ued for tin t purpose." Mr. Roger de manded that the word be taken dowo; which wa done, and they were read at the clerk' desk. Mr. Cox, Xew York, move ) that the gen tlemen from Missouri be allowed to pro ceed iu order, and the motion being agreed to, Mr. O'Xiel resumed the floor amid applause. He said that the duties of member of the committee on labor were very arduous, and that gentlemen on thst committee were placed in a very peculiar jiosition, being liable to be de nounced a demagogue and catering to the workingmea whenever thev brought in a bill in the interest of lebor. A chairman of tint committee, he had been obliged to stand here for two day In an effort to secure consideration of "a num ber of important hrVr bill, nnd see tlit time frittered awny ttjr men who, at leaders of the 1 louse, shnuUt be first to rt;iotid lo the demands ofrAhe working. for the right to tie heard. - 'I in f oosair. The House judiciary committee, aftet two weeks' work ltjmu It ha perfected the Oate hilt, fixing tho aalariea of United SUte judges and oidcred its re p.rt lo the House. The judge in the South only get tin increase of 300. Dircctor-Geiieral Joseph, ex-Representative Small and Itecoider Trotter, all colored men, appeared before the Hotu committee on appropriations to reiust an appropriation of $100,000 to aid the national colored exposition to be held in Atlanta, Ga.,' next Wintet. Appearance indicate that the request wilt be granted. A heavy storm, accompanied by thun der aud lightuing, broke over tbe city, which flooded the streets and luterrunted all overhead telegraph and telephone wire but two, connecting the ctrpitol building with tho rest of the city. The lightning either struck the capitol build ing, or was carried into .it on the many wires which enter it, because th occu pants of. nil parta of the building were startled out of their usual serenity aud treated to n Kit her exciting electrical display. It brought every judge of the Supreme Court, every lawyer at the bar, and every clerk at his desk to his feet with a sudden jeik, as if they were ail moved by some spring. Then they all sat down again aud tried to look as' if uotbing had happened. v WOliLD AT LARGE. ' PEX ". I'lCTl'HES PAfXTKU BY A IQAPS OF ABLll ATITS. ' - . -, ., if t What K 1" fcaet a4 West aarf Aec ! Walre-Taa t'eaita Cu : reeena taai. 4 V A dangerous $3 silver certitlcate is lu extensive circulation iu the West, A collision occurred at t'Ico, Cal., be tween two freight trains. Two engines were attached to the traina, and all foui of Ihe engine and a number of car were bad y wrecked. Eugineer John Pickeus was killed instantly, and several other, injured. " Violent shocks of earthquakes havt continued in the province of Yunnan, China, din ing the last three weeks, de stroying many towns and an immense amount of shipping at Kien-Chia, The lowest estimate places the number of per sons killed at 400. Ex-Gov. Horace Fairbanks, of Ver mout, died at the Fifth Aveuue Hotel in Xew York. He ventured out In the blizzard in a close carriage, but naturatly weak lungs, he caught a col J. which rapidly grew worse.and developed into pneumouia, from which he died. The local branch of the National league iu Mausiou House ward, in Dublin, Ire land, passed a resolution condemn ing Mayor Hewitt, of Xew York, .for refusing to allow tbfo Irish flag to be hoisted on the city hall on St. Patrick's day and declaring that such refusal was nu insult to tbe race throughout the world. Keely's secret of the manipulation of Lis mysterious motor, which he has guarded so securely for many year, iu spile of the efforts for discloaure made by dissatisfied tockholder of tbe. Motor Company, is at last to be divulged. Judge Fiuletter bauded dowa an opinion in Philadelphia, Pa., iu the suit brought by Bennett C. Wilson, who claims to hold an alignment of Keely'a motor in vention, made to him in 1809,' which grants an order for the inspection of all the motor machines as made by Keely, and compel him to explain the theories of their workings to Wilson and such ex perts a may be named. The Burlington company will shortly begin legal proceeding in Chicago, III., to compel the Northwestern and St. Paul roads to handle "Q," freight. The three companies are the onlj ones still rcfusiug an interchange of traffic, all the other com panies having lifted tbe boycott. The Burlington began legat proceeding re cently againkt tbe Wabash & Western at St Louis. The latter road backed down before the case went into court, and i now handling Burlington car. There are rumor that the Rock Island, North western and St Paul companies have en tered into an agreement with the Broth erhood not to touch "Q." freight until compelled to by the court AGRICULTURAL FIQURE8. The followiug figure have been com piled and show a remarkable increase of Southern crop. . Compering the yield of 1870 and 1SS7, it i shown that the cotton crop advanced from 3,011,906 bulce to O.tKM.OoO bale, corn from S49.072.00O bushels to 492.413,000 bushels; wheat from 83.841,000 bushel to 32,384.000 bushel and oat from 31,973,000 bushels to 01,506,000 bushels a total increase of 3.780,000 bah of cottou and 811,000,- 000 buibels of grain. The percentage of increase in graiu production in tbe South was greater than the percentage of gain 1 i grain in the rest of the country. The number of farm animals in the South in 1870 wa 38,754,000, and iu 1887 the number bad risen to 44.830,000. Com paring the yield of 1879 and 1887 them wa an increase of 1,044,000 bales of cot ton and 103,830,000 bushel of grain, the total grain production in the South in 1887 having been 630,303,000 bushel against 431,000,000 bushel in 1879, an increase of 43 per cent, white in all the Test of the couutry tbe increase in grain production wa only 16,000,000 bushel, or les than 1 per cent, though live stock in 1887 show an increase of value over that of 1879 of $18!i,H8,390, aod of agri Cultural production of (170,908,006. THEATRICAL HORROR. ' SOUTHERN GOSSIP. VOl LED MWX FACTS AXD FAS CrESlXTF.lt LSTIXCLr STATED. 4ecllevu an I.aad anil an tteae Enter-arlara-Nuloidaa Kctlltfluu. Teujperaneo ad .Mactal JIaiiera. West Point, Ga., had quite a lire, which started iu It. W. ood'i store, causing a damage of 20,000.' The loser are J. J. Crawford, drugs; Courser, tuilor; George N, Craft, confectioner; I. M. Scott, W. G. Shacffcr and Miller & Harris. An epidemic of measles is i aging at Buckingham C. H., Va. Whole families are down with it One family consisting Lot Ui2a, hit wife and fourteen children arc prostrated, and an old couple, agea respectively 91 nnd 87, ure down with the disease. A great many have died. There is excitement at Durham, N. C. . growing out of the arrest of a number of liquor dealers, ou the ehunje of violating tbe local option law. A New York de tective went there, and soon got evidence against a number of them. Arrests fol lowed, and the defendants were required to give heavy bond for their appearance at court. At Wilmington, N. C, 8. B. Dudley nnd F. F. Aldrich were tried upon u charge of publishing a libel upon Judge O. P. Slenr. of New Andover superior court, in the YeUy Bulletin, their edi toriul charging that Judge Mears grossly di riminatud between white and colored people iu court, nod was very abusive iu tone. The Elyion Laud Company at Birming ham. Alu., cloned a contract with tho Kittghumpton Hoe aud Tool company, of Biugh tiuton, N. Y. for the removal of their entire plant to Birmingham. The capital stock (f the company will be 100.000. of which the Elytou Land Company take $40,000. The plant Will be in operation by August 1st, aud 300 men will be em ployed. Revenue oflicers F. F. Fowler and W. T. Wtstcottle returned from a raid iu Butler county, Ga., raided and captured an illict still in Butler county. The news is specially interesting because heretofore moonshiners and wild cat dis tilleries have lieen unheard of in that section of the state. The still wa out iu the lonesome piney woods where the timber depredator afe constantly work ing, but lie moonshiner is a stranger. Two more of the indicted Bald Knob ben, at St. Louis, Mo., have presented written confettiou to the sheriff. Amos Jones und William Stanley follow John Mutbewa in the plea for mercy, aud man age to weave a story showing their pre-, nice had a tendency for a peace gather ing. They accuse Chnrle Graves of being responsible, with Bill Walker, in the atrocious murders, while they used every endeavor to restore order and pre vent bloodshed. East Nashville, Tenn., ha suffered by an epidemic of fires, a dozen stable and several residence having been burned. The stable of W. Moore wa fired seven times, and the other night wa destroyed, as was his bouse. The ilice have been watching, a there have been two or three alarms every day. The thirtecn-veur-old son of Moo-e was caught start ing a fire which burned two stables. It appeared on investigation that he wa wa incited to incendiarism by larger negro boys, who robbed the neighbor hood house while the people wero out. Moore wa paion.itely fond, of seeing the tire engine, and wa thus easily influenced. While a ierformance was in progre at the Bandynet theatre, In Oporto, Por tugal, an explosion of ga occurred Cod the theatre took fire and wa destroyed. Tbe house wa full of spectator. Eighty bodies have been taken from the ruins. Most of those burned were in the third tier boxes and galleries, where whole families were suffocated. There wa a terrific struggle at the door when the spectator tried to escape. A large num ber were suffocated ami trampled upon. Klral Painter a. ' Talking about quick work," said the artist "I painted i complete landscape scene in three day recently." "That nothing, replica the scrspe grace. 'Nothing! t'd like to see an artist who ran beat it" "I have beaten it. I painted a com plete low. la oae night "-UntUn Journal, - - WAGE-WORKERS MEET. The Alabama State Convention of or eanized workingmen met in the ITall of Representatives in Montgomery, Ala. There were fifty to seventy-five delegate prmnr, representing the following labor organization: The Knight of Labor, the Carpenters' Union, the Farmer' Wheel, tho Farmers' Alliance, the Land and Labor Club and the Tailor' Union. A resolution wa entered by a member of the Wheel, that after twenty-five year of unredeemed pledge and broken prom ises, tbe convention thinks that the time ha now come for independent political action. Adopted. A committee of five to examine the atatote of the country, and to draw up such law a would be of benefit to every class of labor or trade, was appointed. Going On the War-Path. 111 , iftl IIarat "Mother, will you, knJ me your hair switch f Mother "Why. what in the worlJ can you want with it, Harry f Hamkv "Oh, aome of u U.y are going lo hive a show, and I'm In m Buf falo Bill, ami scali Indians, ilrpr't )'Uj I'm).
Hillsboro Recorder (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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