EST AB LISHED 18674
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
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Sixty convicts are to be sent from the
penitentiary to Caledpnla f arm on Roan
oke river. Th reconvicts escapa from
the Wake countyXvorfe house by burning
holes in the floor Vyith a wire and -then
breaking, owt t6 piece, TheNorth
Carolina College association. meets in
IHirhanyon the ird inst. Governor
I'lYrrall.Of Virginia, signs, a bill au
thorizing theypayrnent to this State of
ijmkm, exnenses incurrea in surveying
boundary line. -Lightning strikes
41 ie li'Kgy in -which a
man and wife in
Alabama are riding,
kills them and
ufns tne DusTKy ana their bodies.
here is great rejoicing in Kio Janeiro
over the ending of the war. The war-
ips Aquidaban and Hepublica are all
that is left to the insurgents. I hey are
in South Brazilian waters, both disabled.
Admiral .Mello has deserted his men
and is in Montevideo, The Brazilian
insurgent sailors who surrendered will
be pardoned. The officers will be court
martialed. Admiral Da Gama is on
board the French cruiserJklagon
Congressman Settle introduces a bill for
a $ 7-",000 public building at Durham.
Most of the sesfeion of the court in the
l'ollard-Breckinridgi case yesterday was
taken up in reading depositions of Con
( innati physicians and of a friend of
Miss "Pollard's." The' plaintiff was in the
court room part of the time. Gne of the
defendant's constituents was present,
who gained admission on the ground that,
he was a member of the same church as
Col. Breckinridge.. One of the deposi
tions read included a rather sentimental
Ir'.ier from Miss Bollard to a schoolmate
and. some original verses. -Mr. Fred
erick Gelihardt and Miss Louise II.
. .Uiirns were nuuiieu in uaibiuiuiu i
h igh noon yesterday. The wedding was
strictly private. The West Virginia
"miners gave up the fight . and return to
work. A plan to rob an express train
near Texarkana was defeated by one of
the gang giving information to the rail
way company. In the British Parlia
ment last night the Government with
drew the address in reply to the Queen's
speech, which had been amended by rec
ommending abolition of the veto power
f the Jlouse of Lords, and adopted an
mldress -imply acknowledging the re
ceipt of tliespeech.- Mr. John pwight,
the millionaire soda manufacturer, was
-ii arried at Norfolk to Miss Clara Free
dom of St. Louis. The groom is 74 years
rjl,i; it is said-the Admiral Mello is
vrith the Aquidaban and Republica,
sixty-tight miles from Rio. Anar
chists threaten to blow up the factories
and residences . of three of the largest
tobacco manufacturers in New Orleans
if they do not discharge the girls and
4-inploy men.
ESCAPE OP CONVICTS.
llnee I'cane From Wake County
Workhouse in a Singular Way
More Convicts For the Farms
North Carolina College
association.
jsiveeial to the Mesfcenger.
Raleigh-; N C, March 14. Orders
are given to send sixty convicts from
the ' penitentiary to Caledonia farm on
Roanoke river next Saturday.
Last niglit three white; convicts, ail
desperate men, escaped fromthe work
house of this county in adaring and sin
gular way. One of them, Burwell Perry,
who many y ears ago escaped from the
penitentiary, was" evidently the leading
spirit, lie shammed sickness and re
gained in the building. lie heated a
piece of wire and with this burned many
holes through the floor midr the stove.
1st night the two other men completed
the w4rK OI "urning iioies auu mcu .n
i " 1 . 1 ., A nr nW
three k" through the floor ana thus
undo t.''rsrape. All are thieves and
,... .'raiMDsNvho were arrested for
robbinir a h -us here.
The North '?arojna Cortege association
meets in annu.il session at Durham on
tl
.-.Tii.vt- invitations were sent uui
to-day to gentlemen who are
speeches.
to
nake
1jivs Iier JOebt to North
Carolina.
Special to the Messenger.
Ralkigh, N. C March 14. Governor
Carr has notice from Governor O'Fer-
rall, of Virginia,that the latter.has signed
the bill authoriziug the payment to
N-.r,-T-'.rrtlina f fcl.024. expenses in-
n,.rri ;n rpsiirvvinc the boundary line
Wween Virginia and North Carolina.
Six years of interest is paid.
A Train Kobbery Frustrated.
Little Rock, Ark. March 44. Passen
the fast express last
evening from Tex arkana report that
plan to rob the International and Great
Northern northbound express at Ale
;;r wirrh. near Round Rock, Texas,
it " o'clock yesterday was frustrated by
'v confession of one of the gang. The
railroad offic ials had information that
the robbery was to occur, and the tram
L0.iK-!?n7iTded. At Austin one of
the band boarded the train, intending to
-..a. n,Q ,...n,-iiirtnr to ston ai-McNeill. As
tlie train approached McNeill the on
ductor" signalled to slacken speed, ex-flar'!.Yl.-
but the- robber
aboard had discovered the officers and
failed to fjive the signal to attack the
train. He was. however, so closely
mentioned bv ihe officers that he con
fessed the plot and agreed to help trap
the band. .
The confidence that people have in Ayer's
Sarsapariila as a blood medicine is the legiti
mll te and natural growth of many years. It
has been handed down from parent to child,
ami is the favorite family medicine in thou
sands of households.
-liailrofc IJridse Burned by Bandits.
Ai-vn- Teiac. March 14. Trains on
the International and Great Northern
road are cuarded by armad rangers, the
Smpany being in hourly expectation of
.rain robberies being attempted, ,-be
f idee between Hutto and Taylor wa
bi lZ j ,v.f. it is supposed by ban-
bui
dits
conternplated en attack on pas
:;r, Fifteen armed men ac-
senge. nllfo-oin2 and iocommg
compaL ' -- -
trains. '";'
OrderedjonJTrial.
. ,-r-1 vr, f About two years
ago I
ordered from
J. R. Gates & Co., ban
hnttle of Simmons Liver
Francisco, a
Regulator on
fial, and so satisfactory
. 1 1 l : 1
lias Deen ius n e
in exneiune una num.
or.i rt'erulating the
the liver that from an order of one at a
. : 4.u iinct risen lo a uucu wuu-
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OLLARD-BREGKINRIDGE
a uujntintjATION OP THE
PLAINTIFF'S EVIDENCE.
Sister Cecelia's Testimony Concluded
The Evidence of Two Cincinnati
Doctors aid a Schoolmate of
, the Plaintiff Defendant
Supported by Presence
of a Brother Church
Member
Washington, March 14. The fifth
day of the Pollard-Breckinridge trial was
devoted by the plaintiffs attorney to
elaborating the main points already
marked out by them in their case. There
were no sensational incidents nor were
there any displays of belligerence among
the legal gentlemen, a failure grievously
disappointing to the populace, which ex
pects daily excitement from the affair.
Since his encounter of Monday evening
with Attorney Shelby, Mr. Johnson, of
Miss Pollard's counsel, has appeared in
Cfmrt but twice, not that be anticipates
trouble, but because he is engaged out
side in working up the testimony.
Miss Pollard .. .. la court during the
morning, but left when her friend Dr.
Belle Buchanan, of Cincinnati, began to
testify concerning the birth of her first
child. Col. Breckinridge was there also,
and so were some of his Kentucky con
stituents, one of whom secured admis
sion to the court room on the represen
tation that he holds membership in the
same Presbyterian church in which the
Congressman is enrolled
Most of the day wae occupied by the
reading of depositiosfi.f riSm a Cincinnati
physician and one of Miss Po.'jid's
scnooi rrrenas, and there v-as some con
flicting testimony .regarding her age,
which is a disputed point the plaintiff
alleging that she was but 17 years old
when Col. Breckinridge inet her. Her
identification by Sister Cecelia was not
complete and remains! be fastened, if
it can be, by the writing found in the
volumes of Irving, said to have been pre
sented by Miss Pollard to the convent.
. The testimony of Sister Cecelia, for
merly superior of the Norwood asylum,
near Cincinnati, was resumed when the
trial was commenced this morning.
Miss Pollard was sitting nearly in front
of Col. Breckinridge, with only the
austere sister from the Hou3e of Refuge
beside her, her other unknown friend
being for the time . absent. Replying to
Attorney Carlisle's questions, Sis
ter Cecelia said that she had
a good memory for names but
a poor memory for faces. She could not
affirm positively that Miss Pollard had
been an inmate of the Norwood convent,
nor could she say that she had not.
When Mr. Carlisle inquired her belief on
the facts, Attorney Butterworth objected
mai wiiue any tacts mignt De given, the
opinion of the witness was incompetent.
and Attorney Shelby added that the
question of the opinion of the witness
was an attempt to invade the province
of the jury; that it was for the witness
to give tacts and for the jury to draw
conclusions therefrom, contending: that
opinions were competent from witnesses
only in the field of expert testimony.
Mr. Carlisle supported the admissi
bility of the answer with authorities, and
Mr. Butterworth rebutted with more
authorities.
Judge Bradley said that if the question
was intended to elicit the opinion of the
witness as to the identity of tbe plaintiff
with a certain person who was at the
asylum at a certain time it was compe
tent; if it was intended to show that the
witness, from things which she has sub
sequently learned, had become con
vinced that the plaintiff had at some
time been an inmate of the asylum, it
was incompetent.
There was some hesitation on the part
of Miss Pollard's counsel in framing a
question, it being apparent that the sis
ter was scrupulously careful about the
extent to which she would commit her
self in identifying Miss Pollard. Finally
the plaintiff's counsel reserved an excep
tion to the court s ruling ana then iramea
a dillerent question,' asking: "What is
your opinion as to the identity of the
plaintiif with a patient in your asylum
in May, June ana July, ioso.' wmcn
wa3 also overruled, another exception
noted, an! followed by the question,
What is your belief as to whether the
plaintiff was in your asylum during
those months.''
"That is a question for the jury" said
Judge Bradley.
- Mr. Carlisle inquired whether any
patients in the asylum had been in the
habit of veiling themselves, to which the
sister replied: "There were two or three
ladies who veiled their faces when they
thought there Was danger of being
recoanized bv visitors from Cincinnati."
Sister Cecelia remembered that three
otiour laaies naa come mere irom oiu
cinnali in the spring of 188Jin carriages,
but when asked if there had been
a patient by the name of JBurgoyne, an
swered: "The name iatnot familiar
to me." L "
The cross-examination wasvery brief,
Sister Cecelia saying in answer to Mr.
Butterworth that she had held several
conversations with Miss Pollard since
her arrival in Washington.
After the two sisters had retired, the
reading of a deposition of another female
physician, Mrs. ,Kate Perry Kane, of
Cincinnati, who liad been in the spring
of 1883 a member of the hi m oi Drs.
Buchanan & Perry, was begun by Mr,
Carlisle. Mrs. Kane remembered that
Miss "Pollard had boarded in their houte
as Dr. Buchanan's patient, under the
name of Miss Louise Wilson, identifying
the piaintin positively.
From the cross-examination in the de
position it appeared that Miss s Pollard
had a mishap; that she was described by
Dr. Buchanan as "an unfortunate, girl
from Kentucky.'' The boarder was un
derstood to be an unmarried woman,
and once after she had been to meet a
friep.d at a hotel about some . financial
matters. Dr. Kane a3ked why she did
not marry the friend, to which Miss Pol
lard replied that she could not; that he
had ruined her and she loathed him, had
steeled her heart against him and would
not marry him, although he had offered
to marrv her. Miss Pollard complained
that Dr. Street had bled her, charging
ts!0 for her services. According ta Dr.
Kim. from Miss Pollard s ways, general
actions and knowledge of things in 1885
the witness thought ihe must nave oeen
vwM,f u wars old then, tone wgs not at
oil f iirrilrlll or srirlish. kept her affairs
to herself and tjnie seemea to nave uean,
" . - , 1 li.
gently with her.
rh- Rflle Buchanan, of Cincinnati,
took the stand amid a buzz of interest
from tht. Hr.pprai-.rs. She said she was a
practicing physician in Cincinnati in
1883, she and Dr. Perry (Mrs. Kane)
renting the house jointly where they
lived. 1
"Do you know the plaintiff in this
case?" asked Mr. Carlisle.
"I do."
"When did you first know her''
"1 first knew her in the summer of
1885, when she came to my house in
Cincinnati from St. Joseph's foundling
ncluni at Bond Hill, sometimes called
Mt. near Cincinnati
"How lon wa the plaintiff at you:
'Mv best recollection is that she was
there "six or seven weeks. She came in
iu vio-ht. nf the strawberry season
ia oo near the time as I can recol
' - '
lect. She was very weak wben she came
,-- wtt rTTiriT'rkTVT at
to our house; it was difficult for her to
climb the stairs."
"Do you know from what she was suf
fering?' "I do; she had given birth to a child
obviously."
"Can you 6tate how long prior to com
ing to your house the child was born?"
"I should say about ten weeks."
During this part of Dr. Buchanan's tes
timony Col. Breckinridge busied himself
reading a newspaper.
Dr. Buchanan said Miss Pollard or
Wilson was about 18 when she was at
her house. She had recognized the plain
tiff last February when Miss Pollard
called on her.
"Are you positive, Dr. Buchanan, that
this plaintiff here is the same person
who, as Louise Wilson, came to your
house in the sping of 1885?" asked Mr.
Carlisle.
"I am positive," said the witness.
Mr. Stoll conducted the cross exami
nation. -
"Are you married?" he asked.
"I have been married," said Dr.
Buchanan, compressing her lips.
"To whom were you married?"'
"To James H. Scherer, from whom I
was divorced."
After recess Dr. Buchanan's
cross ex-
animation was resumed,
Miss Pollard had not returned to trieTTEeTMH that the act of 1890 left the coin-
court room when the court reassembled.
dui me aeienaant ana bis counsel were
there. There was a noticeable falling off
in attendance. .
After Judge Bradley had stopped Mr.
Stoll from asking Dr. Buchanan ques
tions to which Mr. Carlisle objected, Mr.
Stoll wanted to know how often the wit
ness had seen Miss Pollard since the trial
began, and when he persisted in retain
ing particulars, Mr. Carlisle objected and
was agaiu susiainea. -
An affidavit by Mrs. Weslevan Roberts.
wife of Wm. F.Robertson, nf Cincinnati.
and daughter of Dr. Brown, the presi
dent of Wesleyan Seminary in 1883 and
1884, was read by Mr. Carlisle. The de
ponent had been a student at the sem
inary when Madeline Pollard was there,
had been given by Miss Pollard a letter
to he opened on the night of her gradua
tion in June, 1885. She had last seen the
letter when her husband gave it to Col.
Breckinridge without her consent. Here
Mr. Stoll had said before the notarv that
he had the letter, wanted the court to
protect him in the possession of it, and
intended to offer it to the witness far
identification.
"But yoa did not get it honestly." the
witness replied.
The letter was identified bv her. In
their correspondence the witness had
once in August. 1884. addressed Mi
Pollard as "Madeline Lillian Rrer-kin-
ride Pollard." Miss Pollard had f-aid
that her father was a great admirer of
Mr. Breckinridge's father, that she her
self admired W. C. P. Breckinridge '
greatly as he was then The Star of Ken- i
tucky. a statement which, even read
by Mr. Carlisle at second hand, stirred a
laugh. In one letter Miss Pollard had
spoken of her deep debt of gratitude to
Mr. Rhodes and wrote "How can T ever
marry the old wretch." The witness had
understood that Mr. Rhodes was Miss
Pollard's t?uardian and wanted to marry
her. In tbe contested letter Miss
Pollard had spoken of ber love for a Pro
fessor Overman. According to the wit
ness, Miss Pollard had been an exceed-
ngly bright and lady-like girl, smart in
her studies, although her education in
early life had been neglected. She had
never lived in a city, apparently, and was
very aimaent in the presence of gentle
men. Miss Pollard had told of her visit
home on account of the death of her sis
ter and of Col. Breckinridge on the train.
I remember very distinctly that she
was very much elated that a man of his
standing should come to her and ad
dress her," said the witness. "We heard
a good deal of this incident. I thought
Miss Pollard as pure minded a girl
as I ever met, with considerably less ex
perience of the ways of the world than
the average young woman who came to
the college. My first impressions were
that she had been taken advantage of.
and I always retained them. She spoke
of Mr. Breckinridge as a kind, fatherly
old man."
The time referred to in this testimony
was in the holidays of 1883 and 1884.
The witness was then 18 years old, and
Miss Pollard was younger.
mere haa Deen controversy between.
counsel before the commissioner over
the possession of the letter, and the let
ter had been attached to the deposition.
It has already been widely published and
Mr. Carlisle's reading of it, since he
found some difficulty in mastering the
hand writing, did not add to the impres-
siveness of the school girl epistle. She
told of the offer of Rhodes to her, asked
how she could ever marry the old rake,
and announced her intention of telling
Mrs. Brown, as she could not lead a
secret life. There were some verses
closing the letter, which Mr. StoU
read, though Mr. Stoll cannot be truth
fully called a success in the role
of elocutionist. There was also a lit
erary production, a prophecy entitled
'destiny" written by Miss- Pollard in
school, which Mr. Stoll read while the
spectators found entertainment in the at
titude of an elderly and honest looking
juror in the front rowj who leaned far
forward with open mouth and expres
sion of profound but vacuous ad miration.
While there was some literary merit to
the production, its relevancy to the case
was not apparent, except as an evidence
that Miss Pollard had been an excep
tionally bright school girl. It was par
ticularly sentimental in its strain.
After Miss Pollard s attorneys had ex
pressed a desire for copies of the letter
and prophecy for purposes of their own,
the court adjourned.
Anarchists in New Orleans..
New OhLKAiiS, Mar.ch t4. Anarchists
have put in their appearance in this city,
and the police are on the trail. Three of
the largest tobacco manufacturers in the
city, W. W. Walls, W."R. Irby and the
Hernsheims, have received several
anonymous letters declaring that unless
they discharged all the girls employed in
their, factories and employed men in
their places, the , factories and private
residences of the owners would be blown
up with dynamite. The matter was put
in the hands of the police and kept very
quiet. In the mean time the several
gentlemen secured special details of offi
cers to guard tneir residences.
The publications of the facts nearly
caused a disaster in Hernsheims factory
at noon to-day. A plank fell down an
elevator shaft and the excited employes,
thinking the Anarchists had begun to
carry out theirthreat. became panic
stricken, fled pell-mell for the exits
Half a dozen of the girls were hurt and
one of them trampled almost to death.
If persons would brine to bear the same
amount of common sense, in buying a rem
edy ior Droncmtis, cougn, com ana croup,
that theV do in the purchase of their family
guppbes, they woald never fail to procure
IT- O.ll'e. Vxnrh Sirrnn " , .
Marriage 6f Mr. John Dwight
Norfolk, Va.,March 14. To-day at
old St. Paul's church in this city, mi,
.Tnhn Dwie-ht. the millionaire soda man
uf acturer of New Yorkv was married to
Mrs. Clara L. Freeborn, of St. Louis, Mo.
iiv 'rwirht is 74 years of "age and was a
widower?:' The twQ have been staying
for some time at Virginia Beach, and
came up this morning. After the mar
riage the couple returned to the beach to
spend their honey moon.
Public Buildiua For Durham.
WashtwtW March 14. Mr. Settle
of North Carolina, introduced in the
House to-day a bill appropriating $75,000
tor a puDuc Duiiaing at uurnaiat st u,
SENATOR TELLER-
MAKES A VIGOROUS ATTACK
ON SENATOR SHERMAN.
He Charges Him With Making False
Statements as to the Silver in tbe
Treasury-Senator Allison's Mo
tion to Reconsider Defeated
Contentions Over the
Civil Sundry Appro
priation Bill.
SENATE. . 1
Washington, March 14. The Senate
resumed consideration of the Bland
Seigniorage bill. , ... . .. .
Senator Dolph stated that as objection
had been withdrawn to the printing of
the extracts which he had referred to in
his speech yesterday, he would consider
that speech as ended.
Senator Teller addressed the Senate in
support of the bill. He denied the as
sumption of Senator Sherman and of
other Senators who had arcued asainst
age of silver to the discretion of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, and he declared
that the act was mandatory and that
under it the Secretary should coin as
many silver dollars as he had issued
treasury notes. If $155,000,000 of treas
ury notes had been issued, then 155.000,-
t00 of silver dollars should be coined for
the redemption of the treasury notes.
He said there were one or two other
points in Senator Sherman's speech
which he desired to contradict. One of
them was the statement that there was
a hoard of 364,000,000 of silver dollars
lying idle in the treasury. "There is no
hoard of that kind in the treasury,"
Senator Teller asserted with empha
sis. "The statement is an untruth.
Senator Sherman spoke of it , as
an idle hoard. There is no -idle
money in the treasury of the United
States. There has been no idle silver
money in the treasury except that which
lies behind the treasury notes tq the ex
tent of $35,000,000. The statement made
here by a member of the Committee on
Finance (Sherman) and sent broadcast to
the world that we have a hoard of $364,
000,000 of idle silver money in the treas
ury is unworthy a place in this Senate.
It is absolutely untrue and is known to
be untrue by every member of this body.
And yet that is the kind of food that is
fed to the people by those who put this
country on the gold standard, and who
are not satisfied with having destroyed
the industries of the country, but are
now attempting to disgrace us as Sena
tors by showing that we are supporting
a bill infamous in its character, and by
misrepresenting the facts to the people
of the world. This debate has been
most unfair. It is unfair, or else it lacks
in intelligence, and frequently it is un
fair and lacks in intelligence also. Every
dollar of silver money that has been
coined is doing money duty and is doing
it with infinitely more potency and
power than any gold money that is in
circulation in the United States."
Senator Teller went on to say that he
would not consider it a very great disas
ter if the country were on a silver basis.
It was on a gold basis now, and the con
dition of the country was not a happy
one. And it was a notorious fact that
countries which used silver as standard
money only, were in better condition
than the United States was in. This was
the only country in the world, he said,
whose legislators depreciated its mohey.
Why was it that France could float eight
or nine hundred millions of silver money?
It was because no Frenchman ever dared
to stand up in a legislative body of that
country and declare that the money of
the country was not good money. It
was left for this country alone to have
its legislative members repudiate the
Government money. Since 1878 there
had been a continued attempt by the
Treasury Department to depreciate the
silver money of the country. The Sena
tors from Ohio, Wisconsin and Oregon
(Sherman, Vilas and Dolph) had told the
Senate that the American silver dollar
was a 45-cent dollar. "But," he asked
has it anywhere failed to buy 100
cents' worth of anything which any
body has to sell? It is true that, meas
ured in gold, it will only bring 45 cents;
but, measured in commodities, it will
buy 60 per cent, more of wheat, of corn,
and of cotton than it did in 1872. It is a
dollar which is as good as gold."
Senator George of Mississippi argued
in support of the bill, although he ad
mitted that it was "artificially drawn,
inapt in expression, and with some am
biguity in it." It was not, he said, a
free coinage measure. He wished that
it were, if there was any chance of its
becoming a law. The bill proposed only
to require in specific terms, the coinage of
silver already purchased, already owned
by the Government and already required
by law to be coined.
While Senator George was still speak
ing, the hour ot a arrived and then sen
ator Harris (Dem.) of Tennessee rose and
demanded that in accordance with the
terms of the unanimous consent, the
vote to be taken on Senator Allison's
motion to reconsider the vote ordering
the bill to a third reading.
The vote was taken and the motion
was disagreed to yeas, 28; nays, 43. The
Democratic Senators who voted in the
affirmative were Senators Brice, Caff ery,
McPherson. Palmer, Smith and Vilas.
The Republican Senators who voted in
the negative were Messrs. DuDois, Hans-
brough, Mitchell, of Oregon, Petti grew,
Power, Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller
and Wolcott. The three Populist Senators
(Allen, Kyle and Peff er) voted no.
senator Manaerson men movea to
refer the bill to the Committee on
Finance with instructions to amend it so
as to provide that the silver certificates
shall be issued only in anticipation or in
lieu of the seigniorage. He said that the
bill had been characterized, even by its
friends, as crudeL rough and ungram
matical, and that the debate had shown
that those who understood the English
language were at sea as ty) what the bill
meant.
Senator Manderson's motion was re
jected yeas, 27; nays, 44.
Then it was proposed by benator tiar
ris to abrogate the agreement that the
remainder of the discussion be nnder the
five minute rule. He proposed that the
debate be general, the vote to be taken
at 2 o'clock to-morrow on the passage of
the bill. Unanimous consent was given
and Senator George resumed his argu
ment in support of the bill.
Senator George was followed by bena-
tor Carey. Republican, of Wyoming,
who argued against the bill.
At 5:25 o clock after a short executive
session, Uie Senate adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House, after some unimportant
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preliminary proceedings, resolved itself
into Committee of the Whole upon the
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ouuury appropriation bill.
AIT. Morse withdrew hia amendment.
which was pending yesterday at adjourn-
uieub, tu sinse out the appropriation for
me iuter-otate Commerce Commission
in answer to a statement made in the
anonymous letter received by Representa
tive Wise yesterday, that Mr. Morse rep
resented neither his own State nor any
owier iu ms opposition to the law, Mr,
Morse sent to the clerk's desk and had
read 'a number of editorial expressions
from the papers of Massachusetts and
other States, declaring against the law.
When the paragraph vias reached
making appropriation for the Missouri
River Commission, Mr. Broderick, Repub
lican, of Kansas, asked that it be passed
over for the present. .
Mr. Wilson, Republican, of Washing
ton, asked whether or not, if that were
done, an opportunity would be given to
discuss the general Question of these
commissions and the contract systems
under them. He thought this would be
just as good a time as any to stop and
dissect this policy. He said the work
that had been done on the Mississippi
river f or forty years past was to the
prejudice of improvements in other parta
of thd country. Many millions had been
and, were being appropriated for this
river below the Ohio river, but when he
went before the committee for appropri
ations, for improvements in his part of
the country he was told there was no
money. For one, he said, he was tired
of it.
Mr. Wilson's remarks were made in
the midst of a continual rapping of the
chairman's gavel, and an interested
throng of auditors gathered about him as
he stood in the centre aisle talking
against the efforts of the chairman to
keep him in order.
Before the paragraph was passed,
which was finally agreed to, Mr. Ding
ley, Republican, of Maine, called
the attention of the committee to the dis
crimination worked in favor of certain
improvements by this svstem of contract.
The River and Harbor bill of 1893 appro
priated $14,000,000 for twelve improve
ments, and the Sundry Civil bill of 1894,
appropriated $8,000,000 more for the
same twelve objects $22,000,000 in two
years. All other river and harboi im
provements receive appropriations but
once every two years, and because of the
large appropriations made for these spe
cial contracts, the appropriations for
other improvements are being and must
be reduced.
No amendments were successful in
passing the gauntlet, and at 4:30 o'clock
the committee rose and the House ad
journed until to-morrow at noon.
PEIXOTTO TRIUMPHANT.
The Brazilian Insurrection Over
Both the Admirals Desert Their
Followers Great Rejoicing
in Rio.
Rio Janeiro, March 14. Copyright.!
President Peixotto is triumphant. The
insurgent vessels surrendered last night
without having answered with a single
shot the cannonade from the Govern
ment's hilltop batteries. The , report
that Admiral Da Gama had fled was
confirmed this morning. He sought
safety on the French cruiser Magon.
The American, officers of the Govern
ment warships came ashore this after
noon. They report that the crews of the
vessels are well and delighted that they
won wiinout a hght. .Excepting the
officers, nobody aboard President Peix-
otto's men-of-war seems to have been
eager for battle.
In coming up the harbor this morning
the Government fleet saluted the United
States flag and Rear Admiral Benham.
The United States fleet will disperse
soon. Ihe men aboard the American
warships are in excellent health.
Ihe end of insurgent power in the har
bor has been welcomed with joy in the
city. Exchange has improved 25 per
cent. Business is as usual. Not a symp
tom of disorder has appeared in the city.
The people are preparing to celebrate the
collapse of the insurrection.
Ihe Aquidaban and the Renublica.
which constitute about all that is left of
the insurgent cause, are reported to be
in South Brazilian waters. Both are
said to be disabled. Admiral Mello has
just been seen on ihe streefe of Monte
video. He has deserted his followers, as
Admiral Da Gama deserted his officers
and men on the harbor fleet. The insur
gent sailors here will be paidoned, but
the officers will be court-martialed.
Sun's Cotton Review.
New York, March 14. The Sun's cot
ton review says: Cotton declined 4 to 6
point?, then rallied and closed quiet and
steady at a net decline for the day of 3 to
4 points. Sales were 86,900 bales: Liv
erpool declined 2 points. Spot sales were
12,0UU bales at unchanged prices. ' In
Manchester yarns according, to the ex
change dispatch, were dull and quiet.
The Manchester Guardian reports yarns
and cloths in favor of buyers. The pri
vate cables from Manchester of late have
been more cheerful, Silver in London
declined l-16d, and here c. New
Orleans declined 5 to 7 points, and re
covered part of the loss. Spot cotton
here was dull and unchanged. Sales were
188 bales for spinning. The revision
committee met late in the afternoon".
The exchange will be closed March 23rd
and 24th. Liverpool will be closed from
1 o'clock p. m. March 22nd to March
28th. Southern spot markets were gen
erally quiet and unchanged. New
Orleans was easy. Baltimore declined
c. New Orleans sold 1,750 bales
and Galveston 722. Port receipts
were 9,695 bales, against 12,004 bales
this day last week and 7,492 last year;
thus far this week, 48,961 bales, against
45,714 thus far last week. Total exports
this season to last night were 4,182,582
bales, against 3,253,010 for the same time
last season. Augusta receipts to-day
were 221 bales, against 91 this day last
year. Memphis receipts were 461 bales,
against 477 last year; shipments to-day,
2,984. St. Louis receipts were 257 bales,
against 550 last year; shipments to-day,
481. Houston receipts were 2,258, against
1,070 last year; shipments to-day, 3,476.
The river was rising at Augusta, Vicks
burg and Memphis, and falling else
where. The weather at the South was
generally clear. New Orleans receipts
to-morrow are estimated at 3,500 to 4,000
bales, against 2,996 on the same day last
week and 1,647 last year.
Peculiar Death From Lightnins.
Birmingham, Ala., March 14. While
riding to church near Damascus last
night a storm arose and lightning struck
a buggy in which was Charles 1 homp-
son and wife, settmg it on hre and kill
mg both. Their charred bodies were
found this morning. The horses attached
to the vehicle were unhurt.
Powder
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ENCAMPMENT GROUNDS.
SUIT TO BE5 BROUGHT
DBTEEMINB THE TITLE.
TO
raueigu cotton Mills to Increase
Capacity Uniforms ana Equip
ments For Agricultural College
Students The University
Nine Decline a Chal
lengeIllicit Still
Captured.
Messenger Bureau, )
Raleigh, March 14.
J.ne Laster examinations at the Agri
cultural and Mechanical college began
to-day. The arms and equipments for
150 cadets will arrive next week, as will
also the uniforms. Application was made
for a couple of breech-loading howitzers,
but this cannot as yet be granted.
During the present month forty-three
convicts have been received at the peni
tentiary.
The Wake Forest college baseball team
challenged that of the State University
for a game here, but the latter declined.
On the Wake Forest team this , year is
Stafford, who, was for five years captain
of the Oak Ridge team, and Smith, who
pitched for the latter last year.
The Department of Agriculture is in
formed by its fertilizer inspectors that
farming operations are now further ad
vanced than ever before, and that the
farmers are working like beavers, with
a determination, as the commissioner
says, "to make things move."
In the Goldsboro section, which is
making great progress in trucking, the
planting of beans is now in progress. A
ueavy crop win De planted.
Ueputy Collector W. F. Gibson tavdav
made a report to Collector Simmnnanf
the capture of a 65-gallon whiskev dis
tillery and complete outfit, on Naked
crees in Richmond county. James Mc
Queen, tne owner, escaped.
The business men here are in arms
against the insurance trust known as the
ooutneastern Tariff association. Some
of them desire arrangements made for
securing insurance from companies not
in the trust, and declare that rather than
pay the double rates now charared thev
favor not insuring at all.
The stockholders of the Caraleirfi cnt-
ton mills here met last evening and re
elected William G. Upchurch president.
It was ordered that 3,000 additional
spindles and 100 looms be put in. Thei e
are now 4,600 spindles and 170 looms.
One hundred and fifty persons are now
employed there, but during the summer
200 will be employed. Mueh
making and building will be done this
year on the company's property.
it appears that a suit will be brought
in the courts in order to acauire a clear
title to the permanent encampment
grounds at Wrightville, this 6uit to be
brought by Wilmington people in order
that they may give the State a clear title to
the water front, the ownership of which
has been in dispute.
bouthern Pines, the health resort, has
had a very successful season.
A hotel to take the place of one burned
some months ago, is being built at San
ford, and J. R. Barkley of Raleigh will
take charge of it. -
A gentleman who arrived to-dav from
Greensboro says the Cone Export com
pany met there yesterday. The attend
ance was very large. The Holt family,
so well known as mill-owners, were pre
sent in great force, no less than fourteen
being registered at one hotel.
Ihe sub-alliances in this State are
called on to abserve April 24th, the birth
day ot the late L. Lt. t'oik. by holding
meetings and making a special collection
for the monument over his grave in a
cemetery here. The National Alliance
at its meeting here is to either lay the
corner-stone or unveil the monument.
The West Virginia Strike Ended.
Charleston, W. Va., March 14. The
striking miners of this valley will hold a
meeting at Montgomery to-morrow to
declare the strike off and will return to
work at. the reduced prices. The long
fight between the miners and operators
will thus be ended in favor of the oper
ators. The Edgewater, the Great Kana
wha and the Carlton miners resumed
operations yesterday and others are
ready to follow.
Cincinnatti, March 14. Col. -R. E. J.
Miles, the well known theatrical mana
ger, died last night, aged 60.
The Human Electrical Forces!
How They Control the Organs
of the Body.
The electrical force of the human body, a:
the nerve fluid may be termed, ii an espe
cially attractive department of science, as it
exerts so marked an influence on the health
of the organs of tha body. Nerve force is
produced Dy the brain and conveyed by
means of the nerves to the various organs ot
the body, thus sunDlyine the latter with the
vitality necessary to in
sure their health. The
pneumogastric nerve, as
shown here, may be said
to be the most important
of the entire nerve sys
tem, as it supplies the
heart, lungs, stomach,
bowels, etc., with the
nerve force necessary to
keep them active and
healthy. As will be seen
by the cut the long nerve
descending from the
base of the brain and
terminating in the bow
els is the pneumogastric,
while the numerous lit
tle branches supply the
heart, lanes and stom
ach with necessary vi
tality. When the nrain
becomes in any way dis
ordered by irritability
or exhaustion, the nerve
force which it supplies
is lessened, and the qr
gans receiving the at-
y are con-
sequently
weakened.
Physicians
vsicians eenerallv
to recosnlze.
the imDortance of this
but treat the
organ itself instead of the cause of the trouble
The noted specialist. Franklin Miles, M. D.,
LL. B., has given the greater part of his life
to the study of this subject, and the principal
discoveries concerning it are due to his efforts
Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine, the unri
valed brain and nerve food, is prepared on the
principle that all nervous and many other
difficulties originate from disorders of the
nervecenters. Its wonderful success in curing
these disorders Is testified to by thousands in
every part of the land.
Restorative Nervine cureq bieeplessness.
nervous prostration, d'sinesa, hysteria, sex
ual debility, St. VltUS danbe, epilepsy, etc. It
is free f rm, oiaies or dangerous drugs. It
is sold on a positive guarantee by all drug
gists, or sent direct by tbe Dr. Miles Medical
Co., Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of price, SI per
bottle, six bottles for fo, express prepaid.
Sold by
SR. R, Bellamy
Wilmington. H C,
A SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION eF THI
SYB8 MADS FK2B OF CHARGE, x
A Startling: Fact.
That very few persons have perfect eyes. It
must be evident t&at it requires both knowledge
and skill to know what the eyes need and to lit
them properly with glasses Those who trust this
work to nniostructed dealers are criminally care
less of the most valuable of all the senses, their
sight. DR. M. SCHWAB'S Glares oorreot aU
visual imperfection that may ex tat Spectacle
and Eye Glasses to suit all eyesight. Dr. G.
MARCUS, Eye 8peialist and graduated Optician.
SSO Market street, near Sooth Third street. Spec
tacles and Eye Glasses repaired. Tail Optical
Institute is permanent, m.
fail
fact.
I -
USE
POND'S EXTRACT
Have the
FOR
PILES
BURNS
SORE
EYES
WOUNDS
SORES
Headache
AND
ALL
PAiri
gering by the garden gate again aroused
that RHEUMATISM so peacefully
slumbering the summer long? Well, if
it's very bad you must change your diet
and perhaps take some distasteful drug
the doctor will tell you what but first
rub thoroughly the part afflicted with
POND'S EXTRACT, then wrap it
warmly with flannel, ana the rheuma
tism may wholly disappear. It will cer
tainly be much relieved. Now that you
have the POND'S
any of the manv thino-s it huff wra AND
j
mentions. It's a
out don't accept substitutes. QUAUIMO
POND'S EXTRACT CO. 76 Fifth Ave., N. Y. dnAll
Davis &
Enterprise
Cor. Front and
flr a Matter ot Business Post yourself.
What is a Bargain ?
The dictionary answers with definitions.
We answer by giving EXAMPLES.
Anyone who inspects the following will never
need to ask what a bargain is again. -
Black Storm 8erge, 45 inches
wide, all wool, fine texture,
ia9t and unfading color. To re
duce quantity we reduce the
price, which regularly is $1 a
yard.
We never did it before sell this
40-Inch, all wool, lustrous black
Storm Serge for a penny less
nan 75 cents a yard. We only
75c
50c
ao ii now as a temporary bar
gain. The renowned Mitchell Zephyr
which have been imported and
IV IcOr sold in America for years at 25
U I jL) cents a yard. All the patterns
here specially offered are new
for.gprlng.
The same $1 50 chenille table
rnvam fiorain that nr.n , IIIa
smoke just before Christmas.
Never expected to sell them
again below $1.50. But here they
are same rich, elegant designs
6-4 size: heavy knotted fringes.
But not for long.
98c
Cuffs, Collars, Cravats and Ties.
A 20c pair of Cuffs for 14c.
29c Collars, 4-ply E. & L. for 10c.
500 Spring Bows, sold heretofore at 12Jc and loc, for 9c, .
All Silk Ties, Text and Four-in-Hand, in spring and summer shades, that
sell generally at 49c, will close out at 24c.
Cuff Holders at 10 and 15c.
Cuff Buttons, fancy pearl, worth 49c
Shirt Studs, in pearl and heavy gold
Boston Garters at 24c and 49c.
Suspenders, extra'quality, 25c.
DAVIS &
Cor. Front and Princess Sts.
JOHNSON'S
Millinery :: Opening,
"Wednesday,
Friday?-.,
j -
March 14th, 15th and 16th.
No. 1 1 1 Market Street.
Bargains in Square Pianos.
THRU! EXCBLLKNT T AND 7i OCTAVH SQUARE PIANOS AT VERY LOW FIGURES.
New Upright Pianos This Week.
TI7E CALL THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC TO OUR TUNING DBPARTMJNT WHICH
13 UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. WALTER C. SHOEMAKER, OF PHILADELPHIA.
CABINET ORGANS IN GREAT VARIETY.
E. Van LAER,
Nos. 40S and 404 North Fourth St.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
FOR
COLDS
CUTS
BRUISES
SPRAINS
SORE
THROAT
Catarrh
EXTRACT t f-
O -FF-i
wonderful curative. AFTER
Zoeller1
Cash House,
Princess Sts.
Boys' heavy fast black cotton-"
ICi hose, invariably retailed at 25
VJ cents a Ipair. which has been our
price till now.
I :
9JC 1fr Gents' full regular made one
IX IT-U half hose Iu all colors and black
guaranteed fast colors.
Gents' Shirts, unlauadried, the
ACkr verr best 75 cents quality, for
Jyirf 49 cents Gents' Shirts,' laun- .
- dried, extra fine.
Too many goods. To reduce the quantity we
reduce the price. An Auction purchase by our
buyer, Mr. Davis, who is In the Northern markets
purchasing additional spring goods.
Umbrellas. Two hundred fancy
QQs natural handle, worth from $1.25
7Vs to 1 49, to be sold regardless of
value. Make your own choice.
Extra fine Twill Siik rustic
handle, highly polished, worth
from f 00 to $2.49, to be closed
out at $1.49.
8 1 .49
We only sell as above as a temporary bargain
while we get nothing for putting your name In
Umbrella, yet we are willing to do it without
charge. '-
at 25c.
plate, at 25c per set.
'
ZOELLER,
4
4
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ties at once.-B. V, Lawrence.