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TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. X A death from Asiatic cholera in Ham burg on Saturday is officially announced. There are at least 10,000 homeless and hungry people in Northeastern Louisiana, made so by the overflow of that portion of the State. Many of the neonle are in a starving condition. JHE BELOVED DAVIS. THE PROGRESS OF THE DAVIS I FUNERAL TRAIN. Unprecedentedly heavy rainstorms pre- ttilrXi Liuvuguw". - , f' 5 Arkansas ana Louisiana oasuruay ana Sunday, and the whole country is flooded. . Judge Stein has issued a temporary I injunction against closing the World's f Fair on Sunday. The Davis funeral I train pulled out from New Orleans on I time yesterday. , At everystation crowds r assembled, gray-haired old soldiers and ladies and children, with flowers pre dominating. At Beauvoir the platform and track had been covered with, white 1 rhododendrons. The. flrain reached 5 Montgomery at 6 o'clock a. m., where, at 8:30 o'clock, the remains were with ' solemn ceremony' borne to the CapitoL f The floral decorations in the- car by this I time liad become most profuse. The re ? mains were laid in state in the Supreme ; courtroom which was profusely deco rated with flowers and Confederate flags. I Fully 10,000 people passed through the V room. There was no chewing at all, J . oa t.hn train left, when the veter- f. '1'" " " ' ' ana called for Miss Winnie Davis, and as she appeared on the rear platform the old Confederates cave her a cheer.- -The Gulf National bank of Tampa, Fla., lias failed. The largest furniture com pany in Arkansas, at little Rock, has failed, with liabilities at $200,000 and assets of $50,000.- The remains of ex-President Davis' son and grandson reached Richmond yesterday. The Mobile and Ohio road will build from Monte-omerv, Ala., to . Columbus, Miss. The Macon and Northern railroad, of Georgia, will withdraw from the Richmond and Danville system.- -The body of a child with its head crushed has been found near Randleman, Ran dolph county. -Last night was "se niors' first evening" at the Salem Female college and the twenty-one graduates delivered es?ays. On the day before Dr. A. D. McClure preached an able sermon to the : graduating class. Congress man Henderson of this State will stick to his post at Washington until the Pres ident goes afishing. Mr. J. T. Murphy, of Sampson county, a clerk in the Treas w rw.nnrt.ment. is very ill. Mr. Ill J -"- r - George Howell, of Goldsboro, graduates with first honors at West Point. Our . State gained five new postmasters yes terday. Georgetown University will confer degrees next week upon James H. Horah, Thomas H. Springle and Wil liam T. McCarthy of this State and Frank Trenholm of South Carolina.- The Henderson postmastership is still hotly contested. It is said Thad. Man ning would like to have the place. A well known business man things the President will , certainly make Kope Elias attorney of the Western district. j After the Davis funeral train left Monte-omerv the wayside tributes began. At every station where the train stopped there were great 'crowds of men, women and children, and infantry, cavalry companies and artillery saluted the train. At many stations by which the train swept rapiuiy ui drawn up in line to pay tributes of re- spect. At one point about 1W old sol diers armed with shot guns and rifles were drawn up and as the train sped by they fired a salute. -Geo. Arnold, a fWht conductor on the Georgia rail road, was killed yesterday. -A cyclone did much damage in the neighborhood of Anderson, S. C., yesterday morning. The Atlanta has reached Grey town. The marines were landed but with drawn. There has been no news of harsh treatment of Americans in Nica ragua,. -Many members of the Davis escort of honor went from Raleigh to Greensboro last afternoon to meet the funeral train.--Col. E. D. Hall will to-day Issue an urgent appeal for funds for the Davis monument in Richmond. In the Presbyterian Assembly yes terday the argument for the prosecu .tion was made and Dr. Briggs began his defense, which he will conclude to day, when Col. MeCook will close the prosecution. The vote will hardly be taken before to-morrow. Jim Hall knocked Slavin out in the seventh round in London last 'night. -Another crevasse occurred in the Mississippi mer above Arkansas City ,at 4 o'clock yestejr day morning and at last accounts was 200 feet wide and fourteen feet deep. The Stations Everywhere Thronged Beautiful Floral Offerings Silent Tributes of Respect The Sol emn Ceremonies at Mont gomery and Atlanta Many Touching In- - :. cidenta. xx : Mobujs, May 29. As the Jefferson Davi3 funeral train pulled out of New Orleans crowds appeared at every street corner on both sides the track until the corporate limits were passes. As soon a3 the cortege reached the open country and got tinder speed the military part of the escort laid aside their arms and uni forms, except that the veterans kept on their gray coatSjready to take turns in Btanding guard overthe casket. At every station crowds assembled, grey headed bid soldiers and ladies and chil dren with, flowers being- therominent features. ' J, At Beauvoir, Mr. Davis' old homeNthe track and station platform had been peted with" most beautiful and fragrant snow white Rhododendrons. The little children of Beauvoir thus paid their trib ute to the memory of one whose declin ing years had been passed at that place. It had been expected that the escort would have time to visit the Da residence but tneir stay was too , short for this purpose. Gen. am Mrs. Joseoh R. Davis boarded the train and gazed upon the beautiful decorations which, surrou naed the catafalque. They were accompanied by their little girl. Several largfr floral tributes were, at Beauvoif, laid upon the bier. One was a wreath of cypress which Mrs. S. T. Green, nee Morgan, of Mississippi, had brought all the way from her present home in Calusia, Calif ornia. With the exception of one wreath of white im mortelles with "C. G, A." and "Augusta. Ga., " on it in red flowers, the memorial tribute of old Confederate soldiers of that i city, there were no floral tokens on the 1 casket outside of those of the Louisiana veterans and ladies of New Orleans, till Beauvoir was reached. But if other points contribute as well in that respect it will take one car for the flowers. The rich uniform of the staff of the Governor of Louisiana, heavily laced in gold, every ofheer being in the full dress gray uniform of the men of the United Confederate Veterans, badges and but tons of other veterans, most of them worn with red and white ribbon and the familiar gray slouch hat,- made the cars present a striking appearance. The grave and dignified appearance of the veteran escort is particularly notable. Generals, colonels and privates have the air of performing a sacred duty and each bears equally his turn in standing guard. It was rather a curious thing to see an ex Confederate major general with paper and pencil telling off his guard ana a tall soldierly lookin g gray moustached colonel composedly receiving orders to act as a private soldier. At Scranton; Miss., Maj. Gen'l Whit ing and staff had theii car attached to the train and a special bearing Governor Jones and star! joined the Davis 1 TO MEET THE DAVIS TRAIN. The Escort of Honor Go to Greensboro to meet theTifraLTiSULrW' Appeal for Fundrfor fne Da via Monument. r Special to the Messenger. ; Raleigh, N. C May 29.-Many mem ber of the Davis fiscort of honor left for Greensboro this afternoon to meet the funeral train, among the?e Col. Whar ton J. Green, who, at the request ot Col. E. D. Hull, commander of the North Carolina veterans, will be represent , that officer. CoL Hall is here and will lo . morrow issue an urgent appeal for funai for the Davis monument at Richmond, considering the occasion especially seas onable for that occasion. It hdfbeen decided that Mr.Davis' body shouldehter the Capitol through the east doorway and depart through the west doorway. The eastern and western por ticoes are being draped and the pillars in the hall ways covered with black and white. Quantities of palms have been placed in the, rotunda. The Goldsboro rifles will not come- bora to-morrow, but v in go to Richmond. Infanticide in Randolph County. Sisscial to the Messenger. Randleman, May 29. Intelligence has ' just reached here of an infanticide ten miles southeast of here. The child was found carefully concealed in a boxdev posited in an old imtised cellar.1 with its skull crushed and otherwise injured. The verdict of the coroner's jury was to the effect that the deceased came to its death by violence, but apprehended no one. Public opinion fastens suspicion on the mot'ier, Lula Martin. .Keedirz a t:: iut up. fctuximtet ttROWM d IKON BICTERS. It U plea? uui ; cuius Malana, Indigestion, Rlkmwet, Liver Cirajjlainti q& Neuralgia- train. Thefrim 6ret from New Orleans' was a quick but dusty one. but all were pleased with the way the train was handled by Superintendent Marshall, who- was on board personally superintending ita movements. .. At Mobile the Semmes Camp of Con federate veterans was drawn , up 200 strong on the platform, with their camp flag floating in the breeze, while a bat tery of the Alabama State artillery fired a salute of twenty, guns. . There was a great crowd there to welcome the train and fuUy,00C people took what view they could o the - casket. ". No one was allowed to enter, the cartas it was mani festly impossible that aH -could be ad mitted. The train, pulled out for Mont gomery at 12:20 o'clock a. m. ., Montgomery, Ala., May 29. Green ville, Ala. , was the first station reached this morning after daybreak, and here, despite the early hoar, (6 a. Tqa.) quite a concourse assembled and gaged with the usual intense interest everywhere mani fested at the funeral car. By this time the massive oak casket was almost un discernable under the mass of flowers heated upon it and surrounding it and of every variety of design, from the most elaborate and costly to the sim ple boQuet. One bunch of a few wild flowers has a card attached with the in scription in a woman's hand: "A faith ful subject of our Southern chieftain." At Montgomery carriages containing the officers of the Ladies Memorial asso ciation came first in view, then Governor Jones, of Alabama, accompanied by his staff, appeared. Simultaneously two infantry columns marched down sinnffside the train, halted and presented arms and two batteries opened fire. Rain began to fall, but Governor Jones an nounced that the proGeseiou would move from the train to the Capitol at 8:30 o'clock a. m., and a few mmutes before that time the storm passed over and the sun came out. Promptly at 8:$0 o ciock the first minute gun boomed out and the procession started. Every window, bal cony and sidewalk along the route was thronged. The Capitol , was decorated outside with bayonet plants and magno lia and inside, with a Drofusion of flow ers. The minute guns at the depot fired till the head of the procession turned into the broad avenue leading into the Capitol; then the battery in tront or tms bunding opened and kept firing until the procession had reached the front portico. The flags Over the Capitol and other pub lic buildings were at half mast. The ap proaches to the building were lined with infantry, who rigidly kept every one outside the lines upJess specially ad mitted by the pfi&eer of the truard. The procession approached m the following oruw. uiuuuku fr j the Governor of Alabama and staff; and then the 4yance guard of the veterans: then- followed the coffin on a caisson with a lofty canopy of purple over it; six powerful black horses in regular artillery harness with brass mounted saddles drew the caisson; the horses were cov ered with housings of purpje sweeping fho .rrrtiind and a cannoneer in mnform of blue-and scarlet facings and wearing an artillery sabre was at the head of each horse". Each pair of horses had a driver similarly uniforiseaanuaxuieu. caisson walked the pall-bearers, twenty five or thirty of tua most eminent citi zens of Alabama from all parts of the State, each wearing a purple ffim rosette. By the side of the coffin a strong body of Confederate veterans marched .- t . , iun fallowed the Louisiana veterans' special escort from Or leans to Richmond. Behind these e&me a long line oi liuauwj, -rtijlery men, a squadroon of cavalry and fifly cade. The Alabama veterans formed in two un - " trance and three maimed eonf-derate officers, two with battle flags, one of the Sixty-fourth AJaoama, ffi Thirty -second v?eorgi, " .7"" T it was borne up the steps; then.they ad vanced and hud the worn and tattered flags on the casket. The, Lomsiana vet erans -.followed,1 then those from Ala bama and other States. The band played a funeral march and the veterans with a measured, sweeping tread, keeping their ranks in fours nd maintaining perfect step, followed" th body -inside the hall from Jhe ' mab entrance. No one was allowed inside but the line pf infantry, which stood at present arms, except the ladies and girls, who formed dense ranks between which the cortege entered. - - i The Supreme court room, where the coffin lay in state, -was very tastefully decorated. Over the right hand exit was "Monterey" in golden letters on purple ground and "Buena Vista" over the left hand door. Over the judicial bench was a huge Stars and Bars flag, an old garri son flag, with a portrait of Davis under the flag, and over . it in lacters of ' evergreen: "He suffered for us.". The i judges' - desk was a bank of flowers with a handsome new silk battle flag at each end. Immedi ately in front of the desk was a cata falque covered with purple satin elabo rately puffed and plaited and trimmed with silver lace. There was no speech making whatever, y ' i " The pall; bearers took their . position between the casket and the desk and the veterans filed in front "one by one with bared heads and passed out ' at the right hand exit. -Then came the Ladies' Me morial association, .several hundred in number, every lady wearing a red and white ribbon and depositing a white flower at the base of the casket as she -passed. They were followed bv alar ere number of little girls. , Then the military and cadets filed by, and after them the general pub lic. Repeatedly the sentries were obliged to cross bayonets to keep the crowds back. Finally, it become necessary to double the guard and four and then six stalwart soldiers had all they could do to keep the tide back. ' At one time two staff officers had to assist the sentries in order to avoid these in front being hurt by be ing pushed upon the bayonet points. There was so improper behavior to any extent, simply a terrific rush to get in and see the last of the dead ex-President. In the brief time before the departure of the tram fully lO.tXK) people visited the Capitol, and even after seeing the casket the crowd would not leaye the grounds, but stood waiting to see the procession reform and return to the train.. , , - The bells of the churches tolled as the procession moved from the depot$ the Capitol and again on the return. ' . f The Confederate generals in line were Stephen D. Lee and Getu Ferguson, of . the Mississippi escort to Jtichmond, and Gens. W. W. Allen, G. P. Harrison; and J.H.Lane.the latter the commander of the famous North Carolina Lane's brigade. 1 Mrs. Davis Clopton was expected, but sickness detained her- at her home in North Carolina. Her first husband, Cs C. Clay, was imprisoned with Jefferson Davis at Fortress Monroe. - j Miss Letitia Tyler, who raised the Coni federate flag over the Capitol when Davis was iuaugurated in Montgomery February 18th, 1861, was among those present. She is a grand daughter of ex4 President Tyler. Miss Theus Roaul, who fired the first gun for salute to the flagj was also present. j . J The Confederate monument, - the oor-4 ner stone of which Jefferson Davis laid; in the presence of thousands of people April 29th, 1886, was elaborately decoratH ed.' This monument is the work of the1 Ladies' Memorial association of Mont eomerv. - The floral tributes were the; greatest ever seen in Alabama. In addi-j tion to those from this city, they came from every point in the State connected by rail with Montgomery. j The return to the train was in the same way as to the Capitol, and in per fect order. There was not a carriage of any description in the procession. Those who participated as pall bearers, and all, walked, except the mounted cavalry: and officers in armour. The train left' for Atlanta at 11:30 o'clock. There was no cheering except as the train left, when calls for Miss Winnie Davis were made.) She appeared on the rear platform, and the veterans could not restrain them selves and gave theirpent up feelings ex pression. Atlanta. May 29. Governor Jones and staff accompanied the Davis funeral cortege frame Montgomery to the Ala bama State line. As the train drew out the infantry saluted and thecannen fired. The artillery service throughout atMont-j gomery was excellent. A lew miles out the wayside tributes began.' The first was quaint enough. A colored woman rushed out of her .cabin with a child at each 6ide and frantically waved her handkerchief, while the young ones cheered cheerily. At Chehaw there was a slight stop. Every head was un-j covered and the ladies pleaded so pite-j ously for leave to enter the funeral car that the guards relented and allowed them to pass through. Ten mdes f arther about 100 men were drawn up in line with shot guns and rifles and the moment the f uneral car passed them a rattling file fire cracked down the line. It was a small station and evidently these men; had rendezvoused there by agreement to give a salute. At Opelika 1,500 people were at the station. , The ladies had quantities of floral emblems and the veterans werq drawn up in fine, heads bowed and colors saluting. The people clustered in a densei mass about the funeral car. A heart ot roses and floral shields from the ladies and from Confederate veterans of Lee Camp of Alabama were put on board. At West Point the crowd was denser,! if possible, than at Opelika. The child-i ren had the day here. Every boy and girl had a magnolia or cape jessamine which they passed up to the veterans. Ladies handed up more elaborate offer-j ings. Mhose on the outer circles oi me crowd passed them over to those in front.; At LaGranare cannon boomed as the! train whizzed by. The local cavalry,! mounted and with hats at salute, were drawn up a little distance from the side! of the track. A solid wall of ladies and children lined the road for about 250 yards. Back of them stood the men in line. To the left of these stood another! long row of about 200 young ladies dressed in gray homespun jackets , and skirts with military caps and .red and white ribbon on their breasts. "' Beyond them again a large factory had turned out Its operatives and the men and wo-i men bared their heads. - The people stood in a ; solid block making neither, sound nor movement, but testifying ev-j ery mark of respect. . j Some of the veterans report , the de meanor of the colored people as perfectly respectful and in two or three cases some of. the old colored folks cried. One of Davis' body servants is on the train f ol4 lowing his old master to his last resting place. ' . - j At Newman the local infantry fired, volley after volley as the train swept by. Here also was the same general outpour-j ing of the people. - -- w - j AtWestPohi Governor Northen, of tfcsofgia, and his staff boarded the train and thence tne nign speey was b-ccji u.v 11 rAhiner Atlanta, the funeral train rolling into Union depot shortly after 4:30 oxslock. i Atlanta, May- 29. Atlanta paid her last tribute to Jefferson Davis to-day. Over 5,00t people turned out to witness the ceremonies incident to the arrival of his remains in this city. At the depot sev eral hundred people had" gathered. - The military and civip societies .of tii'e crty formed in line around the depot, feoni spieuous in the immense gathering were Confederate veterans, who marched after tho . remains. A. tatterea oouieueiaw flag was . borne aloft by one of them Although it was one of the largest pro cessions efer seen in this city, there was no friction of any kind. ; ; - , Every organization in the ty was represented in the pageant as it moved alona the street to the measured and sol: emn music of the drum. The Governor of -'the- -State ana ms bwui, mo may, tfeercity council, military com panies, polioe' force, secret fraternities, cadets from the military schools, Soufh Carolina, -Virginia and North Carolina Bocieties and other military uu organizations of the city participated. It vis one of the grandest pageants this city has ' ever seen. Following in the wake of the various military .companies came the Confederate veterans. - They were out in full strength and numbered, perhaps, 2,000 in line, r Many of the old soldiers were crippled, while others car ried with them the infirmities of ; three score years and ten.' In the wake of the veterans came the carriages of various prominent citizens, -who participated in the parade. A South Carolina society was represented in this part of the pro cession and all the members rode in car riages. Senators Gordon and Colquitt, and also Governors Northen, pf Georgia, and -Jones, of Alabama,' were in this part of the line. . A, strik ing feature' of the ' procession,; and one which every one viewed with a feeling of gratification, as it emphasized the declaration that . the war was : over and that the bloody hatchet was forever buried, was the presence of a number of Grand Army men who turned out. They were in tne procession oy5; invitation oi the Confederate veterans. - - On a. flower, garlanded hier-within a few feet of the Statue of Ben Hill, the nnveilingof which was the occasion of his last visit to Atlanta, was gently placed the casket containing the body of Jeffer son Davis; At one end of the casket was a pillow of red, white and blue immor telles representing the Confederate bars and stars, and attached so it was a card which read "The flag, the cause,' the President, the flowers,, all dead, all immortal." On the centre of the cas ket was placed a beautiful heart. The outer edges of the heart were of roses while the centre represented a Confed erate flag. The Gate City Guards, -under Lieut. White, acted as escort of honor and drew up about the bier pre senting arms as the casket was born in by twelve veterans. The doors were opened to the people and the rush was tremendous. A squad : of policemen, armed, were brought in to assist and the line of guards extended m solid file from each end of the bier and separated the crowds into two parts. A number of, Confederate battle flags were brought. There were many affecting scenes, one victim kissing the casket. An" old negro asked permission to place a bouquet of flowers at the foot of the bier. When he was told that he could he burst into tears and exclaimed: "I was wid him fum start to finish." For an hour and a half the people passed through the Capitol in two solid lines and it is estimated that not less than 40,000 saw the casket. - During j the afternoon Mrs. Hayes and Miss Davis remained in their apartments at the KimbalL Here they were visited by many prominent ladies, a number of them personal friends. - At 7 - o'clock the casket was again placed on the caisson and, escorted by the Gate City Guards, was taken to union depot and again placed in thetunerai car. . A large crowd was present. Ow ing to a misunderstanding as to the time of departure, a numberof people, includ ing Gen. Gordon, who is to be marshal of the day at Richmond, some of the Texas, Louisana and Mississippi dele gations and a number of the Atlanta escorting committee, were left behind. They were given to under stand the departure would be o'clock, Atlantic time. The Richmond and Dan ville officials understood it was 8 o'clock, Richmond and Danville time, which meant 7 o'clock Atlanta time. The cas-. ket did not reach the depot till several minutes past that honr and as soon as it could be placed in the car the train pulled out. Those left behind will . mias the exercises in Raleigh, but -will rejoin the party at Greensboro and will be at Richmond. : WASHINGTON CITY. . HON. J. S. HENDERSONS GOOD .. . SHCKQTG- QUALITIES. THE ARGUMENT BEGUN. r. 4 Fearful Mississippi Results or the Floods. . ' f ."i Vicksburo, Miss., May 29. There are at least 10,000 homeless and hungry peo ple in East Carroll, Moorhouse. West Carroll and Madison parishes k Louisiana, and the suffering and privations they are undergoing is appalling. With the exception of a few small elevations the whole of the northeastern portion of the State is under water. Forty-four negroes were rescued from a perilous position near Swan Lake, East Carroll ton parish, Sunday night. They were almost insane from hunger, having been without food four days. Two children died Friday from exposure. Their bodies were wrapped in blankets and thrown into the raging waters, there being no dry ground in which to bury them or imple ments with which to dig graves. An old hermit was rescued four miles from Swan Lake, who had been without food for three days. When found he was sit. ting astride the roof of his house munch, ing meat from the bones of his dog, which he had been compelled to kill. Governor Foster sent all the tents at his command to the suffers at Lake Provi dence. - Serious Illness ef J. T. Mnrphy Hon ors Gained By North Carolinians . New Postmasters The. Fight i ' , Over the Henderson Post '' office The Western Dis- ' trict Attorneyship Nicaragua News. Special to toe Messenger. Messenger Btteeau, ) Washington. D. C, May 29. l ' When the President goes fashing Rep resentative Henderson will run home for a short while. - v , : .4 : ,: Mr. J. T. Murphy, of Sampson county, a high grade clerk of the Treasury De partment, is reported to be very ill. TjCapt. R. P. Howell, of Goldsboro; stopped here on his way to West Point, where his son George takes first honors n the graduating class. I, The postoffice announcements to-day, omitting Nashville and Rolesville, al ready; printed in the Messenger, are Sanford. Moore county, John . W. Scott, Jr., vice G. H. Makepeace; Wadesboro, Anson county, J. A. Little, vice J. P. McRea; Waynesville, Haywood county, Robert T. Underwood, vice J. M. Davis. Georgetown University will confer on next Monday the degree of Master of Laws upon James H. Horah and Thomas H. Sprinkle, of North : Carolina, and Frank Trenholm, of South Carolina, and the degree of Bachelor of. Laws "tipon William, T, McCarthy, of SKorth Caro lina. Trenholm is a grandson of the late Confederate Secretary and a descendant of Gen. Wm. R. Davie, ;' Returning from the "National Press convention, Mr, Thad R. ManningVof the Henderson Gold Leaf,, stays over to study the situation. He says the Hen derson postmastership has been hotly contested between Messrs. Cheatham and Dunn, with Mr. Bullock as a good third. I understand Mr. Manning himself would accept it if chosen as a compromise with out his becoming a candidate. A well known business man says he thinks Kope Elias will be made district attorney, because, being the President's personal friend, - the President would have told him, had he not intended to give him the office, that he could not do so and relieved him from suspense. He would then have offered Elias something else, this gentleman thinks. There has been a little talk to the effect that if Glenn gets, the attorneyship Elias wil secure the collectorship, but there has been rather more gossip on the line of Pinnix for collector if Elias is made at torney, . By Sontbern Press. Washington, May 29. A telegram was, received at the Navy Department announcing' the? .arrival at Greytown," Nicaragua, of the United States steam ship Atlanta. Capt. Higginson reports that he landed the marines attached to the vessel to look after American inter ests, but withdrew them Saturday even ing at the suggestion of United States Consul Braida. - The department has no explanation of either the landing or withdrawal of the marines. The State Departmentt6-day, for the first time since his departure, heard from Minister Baker by cable, dated Managua. May 28th. The dispatch came via La Liber dad, Salvador. The Minister telegraphs that he thinks that a war ship is neces sary at Corinto. He was ignorant of the fact that the Alliance is hastening to that point on the west coast and ia ex- Ssctea to arrive at CorintofWednesday. e further says that tha war between the Government and revolutionists will probably become bitter, as the revolur tionists are aggressive and powerful. No. news has reached the State Department indicating that American residents of Niearacua are being treated with harsh ness, as was reported in the telegrams by way of balvauor. The Opening Speech in the Briggs Case Made Dr. Briggs Making I HisDefenee The Vote Proba- I blr Taken To-Morrow. -I ..' ' ' V' i ; .- -j . ..!- - .: ... ' : - Washington, May 27. In the Presby terian General Assembly this morning the closest attention was given Dr. Baker, chairman of the Judicial committee, when he rose to make the report of the committee as to the dispositon of time in the Briggs ; trial. The arrangement, he said, was entirely agreeable to both sides. The appellants would open and close the case, four and a half hours being allowed them, while the appellee (Dr. Briggs) would be allowed seven hours. The New York Presbytery, from whose judgment the appeal was taken, would be allowed two hours, - with each speaker limited to ten minutes, and fol lowing them the members of the Gen eral Assembly1; will be heard for two hours under the ten minute . rule. The vote will be taken on each specification. Dr. Baker said the appellants would in troduce in the opening case all the mat ters they intended to present. ; The report was adopted unanimously. CoL McCookJ of the prosecuting com mittee, took the stand and the great trial began. -1 J' . j - 1 .4 ' -i. . ... . y: Col. McCook's purpose was merely to notify the court and appellee of the cita tions and references which the prosecu tion expected to use in presenting their case. This duty done, he-introduced Rey, Joseph Latnpe, D. D., of New Jer sey, who mad the opening argument for the prosecution. ; He spoke three hours and a quarter, .concluding his speech at the afternoon session. Professor Briggs began his answer and self-defense, toi which seven hours had been allotted, and continued it at the evening session. He will conclude to morrow and then Col. McCook will close for the prosecution. It is scarcely proba ble that the vote on the question of sus taining the appeal will be reached before Wednesday.- I ttew &vtxtttvaznt GRAND BALL THE ISLAND BEfW- HOTEL, HAnnocKs. - y-. ft ' THSBB WILL BS A GRAND BAfcl, fliySS AT, SS1CH BWI tH FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE and, 1893. A SPECIALl TRAIN WILL LEAVE PRINCESS STREET STATION AT T0 Pl m . V BETCRMNO LKAyB HAMMOCKS AT IS P. V. ROUND TRIP TICKETS. INCLUDING SUPPER, '75 CENTS. FRENCH ORGANDIES AND FINE FIGURED LAWNS THE LATEST PATTERNS AND MOST EXQUISITE DESIGNS. White Dotted and Figured Swiss Jihq COMMERCIAL NEWS. Stocks and Bonds ; in New York - Grain and. Provision Markets of Chicago. Sew York, May 29. The stock market opened comparatively firm and leading shares made fractional advances on the final quotations pf Saturday, while Con solidated Gas'- iumned 2 noints. but the I ifAPAH AMD bears soon started on another raid to catch FROM S5c TO 60c YD. White French Lawns, FIFTY INCHES WTDR. SOMETHING NEW. YBRY 8SEER AND .PRETTT. SILK AMD SILK ALINE DRAPER Y M ALL THE MEW EFFECTS. stop orders, and in a short - time some Tne Cholera in Hamburg. - Quarantine, L. IT, May 29. Dr. Nash,: renresentative of Dr. Jenkins .in Ham burg, reports by cable this morning that there was one death f 10m cholera in that city yesterday. . ; : Hamburg, May 29. The committee on prevention and detection of cholera; conr stituted by the Senate of Hamburg, de clared officially to-day that the clerk, supposed to have been suffering the pre vious week from diarrhoea, died Satur day last from Asiatic cholera. Telegraphic Sparks. New York, May 29. It is stated that the Macon and Northern railroad, ex tending from Athens, Ga., to Macon, Ga., 11U miles, Will wiaufaw iruui w mond Terminal system. The reason as-, simd ia that the terms f 'awarded the bondholders under new plan are not libi era! enough. Augusta, Ga., May 29. Freight Con ductor George Arnold, of the Georgia road, fell between two cars near Union Point to-pay and was killed. . Birmingham, Ala., May ?9.r-A. special to the Age-Herald from. Opelika says: pinlr TTalev. son of a prominent citizen, while on a spree last night, shot a col ored courtesan named Dought Greenlea and tben kilted himself. The girl will die. : - ;-':- ;:- :;-y; An IninnCtiott Aains; Closing the - Fair Snndays. - 7 " ' Chicago, May '29iJudge Stein today issued a temporary in junction restraining ihe' Imposition directory from closing the World's Fair Sundays t ' Cyclone in Soutn Carolina. Augusta, Ga. , May 29. A. special to the Chronicle from Anderson, S.. C, says: A. cyclone struck this county this morning, doing much damage to crops and farni houses. A heavy rain fol lowed. ' " " : earnxl Bain 8orma, , Memphis, Tenn.. May 29.'. The heavi est rain fall in the recollection of the oldest inhabitants occurred throughout Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana Saturday night and yester day. The whole country is flooded and incalculable damage is done to planters. : The Sun's Review,. New York, May 29. The Sun's cot ton view says: Some advance In Liver-; pool, a rise in the Mississippi river, heavy rains in the Memphis district, but more than alii heavy precipitation in the Southwest, caused an advance in prices. On realizing sales, however,by local oper ators and Southern selling, there was a sharp reaction, and the final prices were about the same as at the close Satur day. At one time the list -was 6 to? points higher, ; May, June and Decem ber closed the same, however, as on Sat urday, and other months closed 1. to 2 points lower than then and the tone was weaE. aies were o.iw Daies. j-aver-pool declined 1 point, but recovered this and advanced 2 points, closing, with a part of this lost. but the tone was steady with spot sales pf ?,00Q bales. Spot cot ton at New Orleans was dull 4nd un changed," with : middling uplands 7c, with sales. Southern spot markets were dull and unchanged. Receipts at the ports were 4,871, against 4,108 thia day last week and 5,91a last year, - stocks scored, material losses. General Electric was the principal sufferer, de clining from 67f to 64 on large sales. Distillers, about the same time, broke 2 J points to 16. Beading was subse quently pressed for sale and fell 5 points to 16f . This, together with a drop of 1 to 5 per cent, in the bonds, added to the weakness j of the general market, and during the afternoon Chicago Gas, Lack awanna, Louisville and Nashville, and Western Union yielded 1 to 2 per cent., while Jersey Central dropped 3 J points to 106. : The heavy pressure to sell the Readings was due to the disappointment felt concerning the readjustment plan, more particularly the tying up of the stock in voting a trust for a series of years. Rumors of a probable heavy gold shipment by Thursday's steamers aided the decline in the general list. It was noticeable, nowever. that the efforts of the bears in the cases of Rock Island, St. Paul, New England, Missouri Pacific, Burlington and Quincy, Lake Shore, and Atchison met with comparatively little success. Near the close General Electric bounded up 3i, Cordage, common. If, preferred 9 and Sugar H per cent. There was a -sharp . borrowing demand for stocks throughout. - General Electric at one time commanded t for use and later lent at 1-32. Sales of listed stocks were 305,000 shares: unlisted 16,000. Chicago, May 29. Wheat to-day sold at, with one exception, the lowest point in thirty years. ; Ihe single exception was in 1887 during the reaction from in flation caused by the running of the cor nea by Harper, a bank manager of Cin "cinnati. Great receipts, with little outlet for the wheat, ! fine weather, weaker cables, financial tightness and the heavy load of wheat carried here, all acted -as depressing influences. Cash prices broke below T0o early and decided many wages made on j such figures. Then on a-sbaky feeling May touched 68Jc, a price reached but onoe before since war times. JUtquiuauuu waa uiia etupcuuisua scale. Stop loss orders were pouring in all day.. Margins were wiped out almost every moment, causing large lots to be thrown on the market and short sellers were . encouraged - to operate with in creased freedom. Corn was easier, but small stocks make sellers careful, and the day's decline was 1 a . T 11 i i. J J CHINA MATTlkGS REAL TAKING PATTERNS AND OF GOOD VALUE. 1 y?ifi- i Vl The Best and Cheapest Evot offered to the people of Wilmington. RUBBER HOSE CHEAP. BEAUTIFY youk garden and lawns D SAVE MONEY BY BUYING OF . .. rm. . Springer&Co. Pureed Building:. WILMINGTON, N. G. ; ! HT, WEATHER SHOULD REMIND YOU THA .1 To Extend the Mobile and Ohio Road, Mobile, May 29. The Mobile and Ohio railroad stockholders at a special meeting to-day elected the following directors: Jas. C.: Clark, . C. Sidney Sheoard, Adrlon Iselin, Jr., H. B. Plant, A S. Rtp.vens. Thos. E. Jevons. Jas. H. Fay, C. C. Cuyler, F. D. Tappen, E. L. Russell, Jas. H. Massen, E. S. Knapp, W. Butler Duncan. The incoming of ficers were instructed to acquire -possession of the road from Montgomery,1 Ala., to Columbus, Miss., a road partly con structed, and to complete the same. This will give the Mobile and Ohio road connection with the present system of the Georgia and Florida roac& The pro. posed new branch is 160 miles long. ' , Fall are of a Bank at Tampa.' - Washington. May 29,--Oomptroller Eekels was to-day informed of the failure of theGulf National bank, of Tampa, FU, The capital of the bank was fau.uuo ana the individual deposits $123,346. The stock and management changed bands Mav 4th. Bank Examiner McDonald nas j been ordered to take charge of the bank. JJewg AbQfTqwi 1 -"!!-: It to the earrent report about towa that Kemp'a Bbltam for le Throat and Langa, la making rm.riln i-nrM Wlta DeoDie woo are troubled wltft Coughs, Sore Throat, Asthma, Bronchitis and Conaumptin- Any druggist will ciTe too a trial bottle free of eost. It is guaran- Me and SI. only fc on July, hut May dropped lc. j The ieRtqie fti tne day was tne taxing in j Of many of the large snort lines 01 July and putting on part of September. Oats were -unsettled. Prices declined i ilc early. After the decline there was a better feeline and prices reacted to the I opening ngures, tne imttrsreti closing" 1 steady for July and September and i4o I lower lur may ana uune. Charlie Wright played with pork, sending the prices off f I on light busi- nesa. A few speculators were caught on stop orders and Wrigbt got the pork and ; then rallied the price 60c in a few min utes. Lard and ribs closed ; respectively 15 and 20c lower than Saturday. ilavin Knocked 'pat by HalL -LbxpoN, May.- 29. Jim : Hall t met Frank Slavin at the National Sporting club to-night for $2,500. a side and a purse of $8,500 and knocked him out , in tne seventn round. Ane ngnc was a dis appointment to the spectators. Slavin was the favorite in the betting up to the openinar of the first round: but from the beginning he made a poor showing. . Hw; was completely outgeneraled at everv point by Hall and was unable to offer even enough resistance to rne the con-, test exciting. i " -...-r:-f i.SV-S. . 1 LrrtLfi ' Hock.- Arki, May 29. The Buddentseig - Furniture company,- the largest concern of the kind in tne state, has . failed ; liabilities, $200,000; assets, $50,000. . ,,f. -, m l - I "The flowers that bloom . in the Spring are not more vigorous than are thos persona who purify their blood with Ayer'a Sarsa parilla.. ' - The : fabled - Elixer ' Vitae ' could carcely Impart greater nyacity to the coun enance than this wonderful medicine, i, Negligee Shirts, Summer Underwear, Thin Coats and Vests, Straw and Alpine Hats, ARE BOOMING AT The Leading Men's Furnisher in Wilmington, N. C. 106 N. Front Streets So Little Buys 50 Much Concord pjxaDter No i " S Ja JC', '-s 1; compakionsj y, i . ; -c'i .r-r-prr r- . . A special oonvocauon of thia chapter wm be held Monday evening at 8 o'clock for work In the af ark Master degree. V -' f i t. - - - ' 4 Bjorder . jj, , my 88 It " '; - ; secretary. OF THE GOOD FlsliDlate's ' Made Glotmno, THAT EVERYBODY CAN AFFORD. TO You can walk right into a perfect fit in our stock of Ready Made Suits. None Can D6 Better. None GiieaDBr.. Coughs "and olds kept off by taking Simmons liver Regulator to regulate tia system. Everv thinz tarrh itself , and catarrhal in its nature, ca 1 all the troubles that come from catarrh, are perfectly and permanently cured by Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. No matter how bad" your, case or of how long standing, you can be cored. Bucklcus 4rB?es Sajvf, The best salve in the world for Cuts. Bruises, Sores, - Ulcere, Salt Kheum, Fvr -Sores. Tetter. Chaoped Hands ' nhilhlains. 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The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
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May 30, 1893, edition 1
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