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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THIS. PROHIBITIONISTS IN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. V. : GREENSBORO, N C, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1887. NO. 44. POMONA HILL Cn!1u its e roes POMONA, N. C. These Nursens are located 2 niitos west of Greensboro, on the Richmond & Danvil e and Salem Branch Raihv ads. - Th re vou can find - . .... One and a-Half Million o? Trees and Vines Growing. ' Parties wanting Trees, &c, are resp:ct. cully invited to call and examine sScck and learn the exten - of thesa Nurseries. Stock consists o! all the leading and new varieties of Apple, Pea h, Pear, (Stand ud and DwartJ Plums, Apricjtsy.Grap.s, Cherries, Mulbetii s, Nectarines, Figs, Quinces, Goo e . terr.es, Kaspb i nes, currants, Pocans, Eng lish VVal uts, Ja hnes-j Pe simmon, Stra berrics, Smubs, Jtoses' Evergreens, Shade lrees, &c, and in fa t ev r thing of the hardy class usually te t in a first-class Nursery, ... . . .' .. - .... ' SUITABLE FOR NORTH CAROLINA AND THE SOUTHERN BORDER STA'lES. New Fruits of sp cial note are fcue Yel o -v T ansparent Apple, Lady Ingold t each, the Laws n Keiffer, Lucy Duke and Beaufo t Pears, Lutie, Niagra, and the Georgia Grape, Wodnd's Winter. ' $Dc8CTipiiv6 Catalogues free. igp-Cor.spondense solicited. ; Special in-, ducements t large PI nters. Address. J. VAN. LINDLEY, Pomona, Cuilforcf Co. W. C ul9-6mo INSURANCE AGENCY Tornada, Fire Life. O. W. CARK & CO., txreensboro, ISI , C. O. W. CARR, Trinity College and High Point, IT, C ASSETS OVER $200,000,000. TTATJPY to be made this om iuUllul and return to us, and we will send you free, something of great value and importance to 'you, that will start you in businefi which will bring you nTmorc money right away than anything else in the world. , Any one can do the work and live at home, -lither Bex, all ages. Fomething new, that just coins money for all workers. We will stui you; capital not needed. This is one of the genuine important chances of aU'e time. Those who are ambitious will n t delay. Grand" outfit free. Address, Tbvk & Co., Augusta, Malr-.e. Lincoln': Statue Unveiled by "Little Abe." , The great statue of Abraham Lincoln whs unveiled recently at Lincoln Park, Chicago; The booming of . cannon startled the assembled multitude, and as 1 he sound of the cannon died away over the water of Lake Michigan, "little Abe" Lincoln,' the son of Robert T. Lin coln, stepped up to the base of the flag covered bronze figure of his grandfather, and pulled a rope which held the cover ing. The folds slowly unloosened and " dropped down at the base, and the tall erect figure of - Abraham Lincoln shone Brightly in the sun. A tremendous shout went up, and it was joined a mo ment later by the roar from the cannon. Thomas F. Withrow, one of the trustees of the Bates fund, out of which the cost of the statue was defrayed, formally pre sented the figure - to the Lincoln Park board, and W. C. Goiidy replied in be half of the board. Th3 Oration was de livered by Hon. Leonard Swett. Watered Oysters. - Not every lover of the oyster "know that the siz3 and plumpness which are : ho highly prized in the great" American . bivalve, and.; - which are so attractive i in -suecimens on the half -shell or in the - ' stew ns to lead the averacrp muri tci nav a considerable extra price for extra size, are not entirely natural ; and even those who do know that the majority of the oysters in th3 market are artificially swollen by introducing water into" the tissues are not all aware that the process by which this is done is closely analogous to that by which, the food in our own bodle is conveyed through" the walls of tae stomach and other parts of the diges tive apparatus and poured into the b!ood and - lymph to. do its work of nourishment. Popular Science Month- , - Better Than, a Dog. "Aren't you afraid of tramps, Jiving nlone as you are?" . r.sked one western woman of. another. . - " ; ',?.- 'Not in the least.";, I aur fully pro tected." - - - - "Do you keen a do T . ' "No, they ir.ijjht poison - a dog. 1 keep a largo woodpile in the yard so that it can be easily, sc n from the road. Thry r ever come anj farther than the front cate-r rf Mcrcha at Tr.iveler. - f Mamma (to Dickey, who has been at the Bhow) What struck you most at t!:e menagerie, my son? Dickey Ihe el p'lanf nn: - He knocked me down with lit! biggest tail. . ! REVTDR. TALM AGE . THP BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY - - SERMON. Subject : I "Concord and Discord." Text: "Who laid the idrn&r-sioTie thereof ', tihen the morning stars sang together?'1 Job xxxviii. 6, 7. ; - We have all seen the ceremony at the lay ing of the corner-stone of church, asylum or Masonic tempLv Into - the hollow of the stone were placed scrolls of history and im prrtant documents to be suggestive if one or two hundred years after the building should be destroyed by fire or torn down. We re niemeaiber the eil v,tro wel or irott hammer that smote the square piece of granite into sanctity. We remember enle venerable man who presided) wielding the trowel or ham mer. ; We remember also the music as the choir stool i on the scattered - stones ' and timber of the building about to tie - constructed.- The leaves of the notebooks nut tered in the wind and were turned Over with a great rustling, and we remember how the bass, baritone, tnon. contralto and soprano voices commingled. They had f or many davs been rehearsing the special programme, that it might be Wor ihy of the eorner-stbrie laying. In my -text the poet Of Uz calls us to a grander ceremony the laying of the founda tion Of this great temple of a world. The corner stone was block of light, and the trowel was of celestial crystal. All about a ad on the embankments of cloud stood the angelic choristers, unrolling their librettos of overture, and other worlds clapped shin ing cymbalsr while the ceremony went on, and God, the architect," by stroke Of light after stroke of lighc, dedicated this great cathedral of a world, with mountain j fot pillars, and sky for fressoed ceiling, and flowering fields for floors, and sunrise and midnight aurora for upholstery. ' Yi ho laid the cornel" stone thereof, when the morning stars sang toetheri" ; - ' ; : i; The fact is that the whole universe wa-3 a complete cadency, an Unbroken dithyramb, r musical portfolio. - The' great sheet of im mensity.nad been spread out, and written on. it were the stars, the smaller of them minims, the larger of theai sustained . notes. .-: The meteors marked the , staccato passages, the whole heavens a gamut, with all Round&,into nations and modulations, the spaee between the worlds a musical interval, trembling of stellar light a quaver, the thunder a bass clef, the wind amohg trees a treble clef. That is the way God made a'J things, a per fect harmony. 5 ; But one day a harp string snapped in the great orchestra. One day a voice sounded out - of tun?.: One day a discord, harsh and terrific, grated upon the glorious antiphony. It was sin that ma ie th.3 dlssonanca, aud thai harsh discord has been soandin? through the centuries. - All the work of Christians, and philanthropists, and reformers of all ages, is to slop that discord and get all things back into the perfect harmony which was heard at the laying of the corner-stone when the morning stars sang together. Before I get through, if I am divinely helped, I will make it plain that sin is discord and righteousness is harmony. . That things in general are out Outline is as plain as to a musician's ear is the unhappy clash of clarionet and bassoon hi an orches tral rendering. , The world's health but of tune: "Weak lung and the amosphere in collision, disordered eye and noonday light in quarrel, rheumatic limb and damp weather in sttruggle, neural gias, and pneumonias, and consumptions, and epilepsies in flocks swoop upon neighbor hoods and cities. Where yoa find one person with sound throat, and keen eyesight, and alert ear, and easy respiration, aua regular pulsation, and supple limb, and prime aiges tion, and steady nerves, you find a hundred who have to be very careful because this, or that, or the other physical function is disor dered. - ' - The human iate'i3?t oal of tana: The judgment wrongly swerved, or the memory leaky, or the will weak, or the temper in nammable.and the well-balanced mind excep tional. Domestic life out of tuae: Not only here and there a conjugal outbreak of incom patibility of.- temper through the divorce courts, or a filial outbreak about a father's will through the Surrogate's Court, or a case of wife healing or husbaud poisoning through the criminal courts, but thousands of fam Uic8 with June outside and January within. Society out-of time: Labor snl capital; their hands on each other.'s throats. Spirit of caste keeping those down in the social scale in a struggle ; to get up, and putting those who are up in anxiety lest they have to come down. No wonder the old pianoforte of so ciety is all out of tone, when hypocrisy, and lying, and subterfuge, and double dealing, and sycophancy, and charlatanism, and re venge have for 6.000 years being banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. On all sides there is a perpetual shipwreck of harmonies.' - Nations in discord. Without realizing it, so wroag is the feeling of nation for nation that the symbols chosen are fierca and destructive. In this country, where our skies are full of robin? and doves . and morn ing larks, we have for our national symbol the fierco and filthy eagle, as immoral a bird as can be found in all the ornithological cata logues. . In Great Britain, where they have lambs and fallow deer, their symbol is the merciless lion. : In Russia, where from be tween her frozen north and .blooming south all kindly beasts dwell, they choo3e th growl ing bear; and in the world's heraldry a favor ite figure - is the- dragon, which is a winged serpent, ferocious and dreadf uL And'so fond is the world of conte jtion that we climb oat through the heavens and baptize one of the other rlanets with the spirit ot battle, and call it Mars, after the god of war, and we give to the eighth sign, of the zodiac the name of the scorpion, a creature which is chiefly celebrated for its deally sting. - Bat, after all. these svmtols are exnressive of the way nation feels toward nation. Discord wide as ths continent and bridging the seas. I suppose you have noticed how warmly in love dry goods stores are with other dry goods stores, and how highly ; grocerymen think of the sugars of the grocerymen on the same block, s And in' what a eulogistic way allopathic and homoeopathic doctors speak o each other, and how ministers will sometimes put ministars on that beautiful cooking in strument which the. English call a spit, an iron roller with spikes on it, and turned by a crank before a hot fire, and then if the min ister being roasted cries out against it, the men who - are - turning ; him say : "Hush, brother! we are turning this spit for the glory of , God and tha good of your soul, and you must be quiet while we close the service with: - .i "Blest b ; the ties that binds . ' -l -. Otir hearts in Christian love.'" V , The earth w diametered and circumf er enced with discord, and the music that was rendered at th3 laying. of the world's corner stone, when themorning stirs sang together, is not heard now; and though here and there, from this and that part of society, and from this and that part of the earth, there cornea up a thrilling solo of lov, or a warble of worship, or a sweet duet of patience, they are drowned out by a discord that shakes the earth.' i A'-:-:l'''y-'-:-!:,":---::r.z ,""-':;" Paul says: "The wbola creation groaneth;" and while the nightingale, and the wood lark and the canary, and the plover, some times sing so ; sweetly that their notes have been written out in musical notation, and it is found that the cuckoo sings in the key of D, and that the cormorant is a basso in the winged choir, yet sportsman's gun and the autum: al blast oft.m leave them ruffled and bleeding, or dead in meadow or forest, Paul was right, for the groan in nature drowns out the prima donnas of the sky. . i V ; Tartini. the great -' musical ' composer,' dreamed one night that he made a contract with Satan, the latter to be ever in the com- poser's service But one night ho handed to J Satan a violin, on which Diabolus played such sweet music that the composer was awakened by the emotion and tried to repro duce the sounds, an I therefrom was written Tartini's most famous piece, entitled the 'Devil's . Sonata," a dieim ingjnious bu6 fauity, for all nw!o.ly descends from heaven, : and only discords es.-ead from hell. All ha- v treds, feuds, controversies, backbit in and revenges are the devil's sonata, are diabolic fugue; ate demoniac ' phantasy, are grand inarch of doom, are allegro of psrdition. But if in this world things in general are out of tune to our frail ear, bow much more so to ears ' angelic and deiflc. It take a skilled artist fully to appre3iate disagreement of sound. Many have no capacity to detect a defect of musical execution, aid, thou;h there wore in om bar. as mfny. fn333 agates? hariuony as could crowd in between the lower F of the bas3 and tha higher G of the soprano,' it woa!d give them no discom fort, while on tha foreheai of the e.lujated artist beads of perspiration would staid out as a result of the harrowing d:ssonanca .While an amateur wa3 performing on a piano and had just struck the wrong chord, John ; Sebastian Bach, the immortal com-, possr," entered the room, and the amateur rose in embarrassment, and Bach rushed oast the host, who stepped forward to great him, and before the. keylxJard had stoppatt vibrat ing, put n.is adr jit hand Urxja.the kdys and changed the painful inharmony into glorious cadence. ; Then Baeh turned and gave salu tation to the host who had invited him. ; : -- But the worst of a1 1 discords is moral dis cord. - If society and the world are painfully discordant to imperfect rriafljwhat must they be to d perfect God? t People try lo define What sin is. It seems to tne that sid is get: ting out ot.harriioriy with Gdd, a disagree inent with His hb'.in- s v with His pririty,wita His 18ve, .with His co nmah ls; our wilLclash Ing with His will, the finite -dashing" aa'nst the infinite, thefra l agaiast the puissaut,the created against th3 Creator. If a thousand musicians, with -- flute, ; and cornet-a-piston, and trumpet, and violoncelloV and hautboys, and trombone, and all the wind and stringed instruments that ever gathered in a Dussel dorf jubilee, should resolve that fly would play oat of tune an 1 pat eo i?o?d to the racx, and make the place wild with shrieking, and grating, and raspinx sounds, they could not make such ft pandemonium a3 that which i-agea in a siafu! Soul when God listens to the play of its thoughts', pasSioh3 and emotions discord, hfelong discord, ma Idening diseorl; The world pays- more for discord than ; it doss for consonance. High prices have been paid for music. One man gave $335 to bear .the' Swedish songstress in New York, and an other $625 to hear her in Boston, and another $651 to hear her in Providence. Fabulous prices have been paid for s eet sounds, but far more has- been paid for discord. Tha Crimean war cost $1 ,710,000.00 , and our American cival w.ir over ?9.5O;).O00.0J0, and the war debts Of profeseed Christian nations Rfe about $15, 033,00 J, to); The world pays tor this fed ticket, which admits it to the saturnalia of brokea bones, and death ago nies, and destroyed cities, and plowed graves, and crushed hearts, anv amount of money Satan asks, j Discord! i Discord 1 . - But I have to tell - you that the song that the morning stars 4 sang together at the : laying of fio world's corner stone " is to be resumed again. Mozart's greatest overture was compose! one night When he Was s;vef al t"m38 overpowered with Sleep, and artists siy they can tell the places in the music where he was falling: asleep and the places where be awakened. So the over ture of the morning stars spoken of in .my text has been asleep, but it will awaken and be more grandly rendered by the evening stars of the world's existence I than by the morning , stars, and the vesp rs will be Bweeter thah the matinsj . the work of all good men arid women and. of all good churches dnd all reform -dssoe'afcicui is. to bring ths race back to the original harmony. The rebellious heart to be attuned, tocial life to be attuned, commercial ethics to be at tuned, internationality to be attuned, hemis pheres to be attuned but by - what force and in what way? ;': i f; .",' ". In olden time the chorist rs had a tuning fork with twoprengs and tUe.y -would strika it on ths back of pew or music rack and put it to the ear and thea start the tune, and all the other voices would join. In modern or chestra the leader has a complete instrument, rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and all the other performers turn the keys of their instruments to. make them correspond, and sound the bow over the string, and listen, and sound out Over asain, until all the keys are screwed to conrt p'tch, and the dis cords melt into one great symphony, and ths curtain hoist7, and the baton taps, and audi ences are raptured with . Schumann's "Para dise and the Peri" or Bossini's "Stabat Mater" pr Bach's "Magnificat in D, or Gounod's ''Redemption." : : ' f ; Now, our world can never be attuned by an imperfect instrument. . Even a Cremona would not do. Heaven has ordained the only instrument, and it is made out of the wood of the cross, and the voices that accompany it are imported voices, cantatrices of the first Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the earth with " Glory to God in the highest and on earth oeace. rood will to men." Lest we start too rar.ott and get lost in generalities, we had better begin with ourselves, get our own hearts and life in harmony with the eternal Christ. Oh, for His almighty spirit to attune us, to chord our will with his will, to modulate our life with his life, and bring U3 into unison with all that is pure and salf sacrificing and heavenly. The strings of our nature are ad broken and twisted,: and the bow is so sack it cannot evoke anything mel lifluous. The instrument made for heaven to play ou has been roughly twanged and struck by. influences worldly and. demoniac O, master hand of Christ, restore this split and fractured and despoiled and unstrung nature until it shall wail out for this sin, and then thrill with divine pardon. j ? The whole world must also be attuned by the same power. , A few days ao I was in the Fairbanks weighing scale manufactory of Vermont.r Six hundred hands, and they have never had a strike. '' Complete harmony between labor and capital, the operatives of ' S3ores of years in their beautiful homes near by the mansions of the manufacturers, whose invention and Christian behavior made the great enterprise. So all the world over labor and capital will be brought into euphony You may have heard what is called the "An vil Chorus.": composed' by Verdi, a tune played by hammers, great and small, now with , mighty stroke, and now with heavy stroke, beating a great iron anvil. ; That is what- tfle world has got to come to anvil chorus, yard stick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel . chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax chorus, goldmine chorus, rail track chorus, locomotive chorus, it -can be done, and it will foe done. So all social life will ba at tuned by the . Gospel j harp, There will be as many classes in H society : as now; but the classes .will not be regu lated by birth, or wealth, or accident, but by the scale of virtue and: benevolence, and people will be ass:gned to their placa3 as -. good, : or ' very good, ? or most ex cellent. : So also, . commercied life will be attuned,' and : there will be twelve in every dozen and sixteen ounces in -every- pound, and apples at the bottom of tha barrel will be as sound as those on top, and silk goods will not be; cotton, and sellers will not have to charge honest - people more than the right price because others will noS pay, and goods will come to you corresponding with the sample by which you purchased them, and coffee wid not be chickoried : and sugar will not be sanded, and milk will not be chalked and adulteration of; food will be a State's prison offense. : Aye, all things shall be at tuned, s Elections in England and the United States will no more be a grand carnival of defamation and scurrility, but the elevation of righteous men in a righteous way. - In the Sixteenth century the singers, called the Fischer brothers, reached the lowest bass ever recorded, and the highest ". note ever thrilled was by La Bastardella, and Catalini's voice had a compass of three and a half octaves, but Christianity is more wondorf ul,f or it runs all up and down the greatest heights and the deepest depths of the world's necessity, and it will eompas3 everything and bring it in ac cord with the song which the morning stars sang at the laying of the world's corner-stone. All the sacred music-in homes and concert hails and churches tends toward this consum mation. Make it more- and, more hearty. S ng in your families. Sing in your places of business, i If we with proper spirit, use these faculties,: we are rehearsing for the 6ies. "-"r" :.' - i":i.-'-::-- "'- -::'-- ; Heaven is to have a new song, an entirely new song, but I should . not wonder if, as sometimes on earth a tutte is fashioned out of many tunes, or it is one tune with the varia ations, so some of the songs of the- redeemed may have playing through them the songs of earth, and how thrilling as coming through the great anthem of the saved, accompanied by harpers with their harps, and trumpeters with their trumpets, we should hear Some df j the strains of Antioch, and Mount Pisgah, and Coronation, and Lenox.an l St Martin's, 'and Fountain, and Ariel and Oid Hundred. How they would bring to m nd the praying I circles, and communion days, and the Christ t mas festivals, and .the church -worship in 1 which on earth we mingled! I have no idea that when we bid farewell to earth wa are to bid farewell to all thesa grand old Gospel hymns which melted and raptured our souls -for so many years. Now, my friends, if sin is discord and righteousness is harmony, let us get out of thfr one and enter the other. : After our dreadful civil war was over, and in the summer of 1809, a great national peace jubilee was held in Boston, nd as an elder of this church had been honored by the selec tion of some of his music, to bo rendered on that occasion, I accompanied-him to the jubilee. Forty thousand people sat and stood In the ffSat Coliseum erected for that purpose.-. Thousands df wind and stringed in struments. . Twelve thousattd trained voiced. The masterpieces of all ages rendered, hour' after hour, and day after day Handel's " J udas 1 Maccabaeus," Spohr's "Last Judg ment,". Beethoven's aMoun6 1 of Olives?' Haydn's "Creatioriy1 "Mendeissdhn's 'JEhV iah,a Meyerbeer's 'CdrdnAtidi March," roll ih dd and up in surges that biilowedagainst the heavens. The .mighty, fadeiiee with id Were - accompanied on tha outside bytu3 ringing of the bells of the city and cannori on the commons, in exact tima with the mu sic discharged by Rlectricity," thuniering their awful bars of harmony that astounded all nations. - , Sometimes I bowed my haal and ; wept. Sometimes I stood up in the enchantmsnt, and sometimes the effect was so overpower ing I felt I could not endure it. . Whoa all ; the voices were in full chorus, and all the batons in full wave, and all tha orchestra in full triumph, and a hundred anvils under mighty hammers were in full clang, and all the towers of the city rolled in their majestic Sweetness, and the whote building . quaked with the boon! df thirty eariaouj Parepa Rosa, with a voice that will never ngaia be equaled on -earth until the archangelic voice" proclaims that timo shall bo no longor, rose above all other sounds in her rendering of our national air, the "Star Spanglod Ban ner." It was too much for a mortal, and quite enough for an immortal, to hear, and while some fainted, one womanly spirit, re leased under its power, sped away to be with God. . - - O Lord, duf 6od, quickly Usher in the whole world's peace jubilee, : add all islands of the sea join the. five -continents, and aU ' the voices and musical instruments of all nations combine, and all the organs that ever sounded requiem of , sorrow sound only a grand march of joy, and all the bells that tolled for burial ring - for resurrection, and all the cannon that ever hurled death across the nations sound to eternal victory, and over all the acclaim of earth and minstrely of heaven there will be heard one voice s wee tee r and mightier than any human or angelic voice a voice once full of tears, but now full of triumph the voice of Christ, saying: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." "Then at the laying of the top stone Of the world's history the same voices shall be heard as when, at the laying of .the World's corner-stone, the morning stars sang together." ;-'' -.:.. ; :- :- .-.: .- .-: POSTAL TELEGRAPHY. Its Increase of Office Holders the Prin- ; cipal Argument rjainst It, ;-'C:;i Congressman Herbert of Alabama, speak ing of the proposition to establish a Govern ment telegraph sys'em said: "I am not in favor of it. In the first place I am opposed to increasing the power of the Government I know that on first thought the people will say 'give us a postal telegraph, but after the subject has been discussed in Congress and I believe it will come up in the house this winter and the country is made aware of the immense joower it will give the party in control, I don s believe the people will be in a hurry to adopt the scheme. We had better put up a while longer with the present evil and endeavor to find a remedy than to adept a measure that ma in the end prove a greater monopoly. There would . be no competition,' Jay Gould could not compete with the Government, and be would be forced to sell out at a reasonable price. - "If we establish a postal t legraph it would create at least 75,000 more office-holders, and : in less than two years the number would be double.: Just imagine what -a force that would give the party in power 1 ' ' "Then, again, suppose the Government should take tne telegraph,, the next step would be to control the railroads. It is-this policy in France that prevents that repubhc ; from being a republic in the true meaning of the word. The policy of the Government controlling the telegraphs, railroads, subsid dizing the opera-houses, . preachers, art, is'the legacy left the French people by Louis IV. We must keep our individuality, and to do that we must guard against every increase of power in the Governments The subject will be an -interesting one this winter " and will provoke a great deal of discussion. Much can be s id on both sides. . BIG FIRE IN NASHVILLE A "Loss of Over $150,000 Sustained . .... , ,. . ... - Fatal Injuries. : About 4 o'clock Friday morning Weakley & Warren's furniture store, at Nashville, Tenn-i caught fire and t e entire block from Bank alley, 'south to the Western Union building was soon burning. - The Western Union office escaped without much - damage. .. The following are the losses: Weakley & Warren, stock $50,000,' insured for $37,500;; Atwell. & Snead, " i urniture dealers, 1 stock $17,000, insurance $10,000; Webb; Stevenson & ' Co. hardware, stock $50,000, insured for, 838,000. The building occupied by Weakley & Warren belonged to Judge J. M Lea and the W.-W. Fite estate and was valued at $26,000, with $18, 00 insurance; the building occupied, by Atwell & Snead was owned by B. Wilson, $15,000, and insured fcr $10,000; that of Webb, Stevenson &"Co. was owned - by E. W; Cole, $24,0JO, and f uUy in sored. The total aggregates about $oo,0C0 on cousis, insured for $43,000; on stock $102,0 JO, insured for about $82,0u0. . . i The walls of t he building adjoining i Bank alley fell, and a number of persons were in jured, Amoue the wounded are a son of J-J. B. Moore, about -15 years of age, whose skull is terribly crushed, so that he will die; and William Stewart, a sign painter, wiSose left leg is badly fractured. - Others are be lieved to be covered by the debris which workmen are removing. - The te egraph' wires in nearly ail directions were burned, and over a hundred telephone wires de stroyed. , . A BRAVE. WOMAN. " She Cuts Into aBurning Building and . Saves a Child. A few nights ago a negro family living near the : residence of George W.v Cox, at 'Columbia, S. C., went away to" a revival meeting, locking their sick child in their Cabin. ;; During their-absence the cabin caught tire.'--'. Mrs; Cox d:scovered the flames and knowing that the sick child was inside she rushed to the rescue without waiting to summon assistance. With an axe she broke open the door, entered the burning cabin and seized the almost suffocating child. - On making her exit a part of the bui ding f 11 upon her and knocked her down, but she" Bhielded the child from the fire by wrapping her clothing around it. The brave woman was being burned . to death - when her hus band .arrived and rescued her from the flames, but she was so badly burnt that her life lauespaired of. The child was uninjured. A MAM LOOSE, AST' ACCIDENT LIBERATES LIONS, V TIGERS AND SNAKES. Siciling TlHW at a Railroad Depot in . An accident occurred the other evening which caused destruction, death and pande monium in the St Loui3 Union Station, and , for a time converted that prehistoric institu tution into a veritable African jungle an I howling wilderness -of will beasts. Six cars Owned by Robinson's circus stood on a track in the' yards. Lions, tigers, big snakes and other Wild beasts filled them. The station was filled with suburban residents and visitors front country tdwrts. ; The train was on its way from Dodge City to Cincinnati, aud was pulling j biit , of : the station when the six ears loft the - track. The were scarcely dffV before a freight train cbming through crushed into them.r George Squires, a Canvas man, whet was oil one of the cars, was instantly killed. ' His head was cut off and his limbs . were torn.from-r his':, body; .Blanche : Fishery a performer, was hurt ; about the" head, .one of the passenger coaches being wrecked. Thomas Foley v Joseph Eisel and one man , unknown were seriously injured. "Others were hurt more or less, but did not require hospital treatment. . . j -- The shock threw the car3 into a. chaotic mass and attracted a crowd. . " - ; ;: -Suddenly a voice sj-reamel: "My GoJ,the tiger is loose !" and the Boyal Bengal boun led into the crowd, which scattered in all direct tions. One man was bitten in the neck by the dazed and infuriated aniniaL Capt. Hercules and other ... ofiieei-s -were present,.- but they . dared not shoot - on account of the density of tho crowd. -A flight of staii-s leads to the upper oflices, and up this the tiger sprang, hear the top he met Joseph Charles, one of the clerks. The surprise was all on Mr. Charles's side. Man and . animal . stood -, facing each other. There was not room for them to pass, and Mr. Charges slowly . retreated, fac-? the bea-st, which glared at him . and r fol lowed him step for step, - preparing for a spraigj -"Mr. Charies shouted fo- assistance. Ihera were three women in tho office. .; They did not shriek or faint. They got chairs and tables to barricade the door and shouted for help from the window. Mr. Char'es got into the oilice safely, put his revolver through the slightly opened door an d fired at tne tiger, which became more and more infuriated at every shot At this juncture circus men arrived with poles and canvas, and after a struggle succeeded in overpower ing the brute. They threw canvas over him and pinned him to the floor, where they held him until he was, taken to a cage. : . Nino cages are demolished and two mount ain lkras are dead. . The loss to the company will be $30,000. Fourteen animals in all were liberated from the cages. A lion was overpowered with pikes and canvas under a freight train, a leopard was shot in the head, an ibex was captured slightly in-, jured, a big boa eonstrictor was cut to pieces under car wheels, and the Bengal tiger has three bullets in him and numberless pike wounds. Eleven animals were at large rani pant.creating a reign of terror in the SDU'.hern. section : of the : city for over two hours.: Squads of circus men with firearms, pikes,ete. .assisted officers in capturing them. The last secured was a mountain lion, which fought desperately in the ticket oiioe of Gen3ral Manager Taussig, until lassoed with stwag ropes, nearly strangled and hauled into a cage. . A CRIMINAL'S DEFIANCE. He Notifies Prominent Persons off Hi . Intention to Murder Them. , ""Dink" Buckalew, the noted desperadot has served written notices on half a dozen prominent citizens of Chambers county, Ala., that he intends to burn them out and kill them. He has murdered four men. Within the last three months Buckalew's life hnB been one of -outlawry. For years he has been surrounded by half a. dozed disorderly women. He has been before the courts un der almost every conceivable charge, but the evidence of the women cleared him.-; "Early, this year he wasv arrested, charged with brutal treatment of his wife. He was found guilty and sent to the convict-farm, from which he escaped.- He dii not leave the county, but directed the women to watch the movements of his pursuers and. lived at bome and among them. The Governor of-: fered $100 reward for his arrest, but every body feared him to much to attempt his capture. ; Every week or two he sent letters to the newspapers daring anyone to arrest him. ' -The reward was increased to $40 J, but still Buckalew continued his threats and no one dared to attempt his capture. . The Sheriff of the county has now summoned a posse of twenty men and started in pursuit of the outlaw. v , A BIG INSURANCE SWINDLE. Business Firms Involved in the Iron ; wood, Mich., Fire Lose Every Cent. . The failure of business men of. Iron wood, Mich, i to receive the amount of their insur ance on buildings a d stocks lost in the late fire has led to general investigation of insur ance matters - in Northern ; Michigan and V iseonsin. "JThe amount of insurance in the late Ironwood fire was nearly $60,000, and is all'uncollectable. The' companies carrying the policies, which are small concerns of Line -n, Neb. ; Ottumwa, la. ; and Louisville KyM claim that the insurance was all placed through a Chicago agency, and that they never received the premiums. . An Inyest -gation by local boards of underwriters and members of the State Insurance Board show that some twenty agents in New York, Phil adelphia, Chicago and other cities have been flooding the district with circulars offering to take any and all risks refused by other companies at any ; rate obtainable. Ai tho rates in the regular companies are high in a majority of towns these sharpers succeeded in writing up a large amount of insurance, They refuse t j give names - of companies until the premiums are paid and the policies issued. The companies they - represent afe all wildcat or shaky concerns not authorized to do business in either Michigan or Wiscon sin. - The fraudulent insurance amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the swindle is, one ot- the boldest and most cleverly planned of any ever executed in the State. - - , ATTACKED BY TRAMPS. A Peddler Saved By a Man .Who Kills One of the Scoundrels. A doxen tramps happened to meet near the depot at Berwick, Pa." w . They were noisy and disorderly and evidently under the in fluence of ; liquor. Stanley, a peddler, of Towanda, came along and the tramps at tacked .hm. They took his wars and scattered them abouf promiscuously. The quarrel grew so fierce that Stanley's life was in danger. ..- " " . : . j Stanley's predicament and went to his res- cue. He pulled a pistol and blazed .- away at j the vagrants. '-Joseph Brumman was shot in the back of the head and died almost in-: stanOy.- Two other tramps were wounded, j Tho un wounded vagrants fled with great rapidity. McHugh surrendered himself. t SUGAR OR DYNAMITE. The Mysteriotts Bo Chief - Justice ' ' , "Waite Receied Through the Mail. A sensation was createa in w asningwu i by the report that Cheif Justice Waite, of the Supremo Court had received a dynamite bomb) with an intimation that a fate similar i Q that whieh bef eljthe victims of the Chicago Haymarket massacre was awaiting tho Chief Justce i as soon as the sefet-need Anarchists should hang.' Lurid -particulars of the re ported laffair" were given, .and the most startling predictions were indulged by the few w ho became cognizant of the rumor. The Worry among the friends of the Chief Justice wa great, and, as a consequence, the Chief Justice's house was beseiged at inter vals until near n-klnight by anxious friends and inquirmg representatives of the press. To many the Ch ef Justice laughed about tho affair, claiming thatt' e ar.icle he received was neither a bomb nor what he thought a message of v deaths Nevertheless, a package had been received by the Chief Justice through the mail. It was a package about five inches sqhare and neatly wrapped in brown paper, and legibly addressed to "Chief Justice- Vv aite" The postmark was "Wash ington.? The Chief Justice unwrapped the paper and found inside a COmra n glove box In coming through the mail - it had been jammed in among other packages and bun dles ,and the lid had become loosened. Tj.isth Chief Justice had no trouble in opening, nor was any force usd in doing so. Inside was found what looked like an infernal-machine. There is a coil of wire wti cb lead to what re sembles a hammer, and near by is what some call dynamite, but which the Chief Justice thinks is brown sugar. J There is undoubtedly gunpowder in the box." The package was immediately put away in a secure place, and the coil of wire taken out, so no damage ean be done, even if it is an infernal machine. To a reporter the Chief Justite s id that he had not received a bomb, for he did not con sider the box as such. It was some hoax, he thought something -to create a sens. -tion. He had not received any letter, message or word from any anarchist, nor did he expect any. He seemed to treat the whole matter as a joke, and did not care to discuss the subject A LAND SWINDLE. Citizens of Four States Duped by a - Bogus Government Officer - Lew Passoa, who has b:en representing himself in Nebraska and Iowa .as a Govern ment official, was arrested at Liucoln. - He claims authority from the Government to locate homesteaders, and has plied his scheme on innocent victims ; throughout Iowa and Nebraska for the past three months. He represented ' to his "victims that there was considerable land in Seward county, Neb., which had been forfeited by the railroads and was open to entry. A few days ago he brought parties from Iowa to look at the land, and showed tnem:some very pretty locations, which they concluded to purchase from the Government. - "v:.-:..- He took them before a" notary and had them make affidavit that their business was such as to prevent "their a tending to the business personally and constituted himself their agent. - They were assured that the papers would promptly be made out and forwarded. They seut $30.50 each as a loca tive fee to Lincoln, Neb., where the papers were to be delivered. They were delivered to them, but were made out so adroitly that the deeds failed to cover this, land or any other. When the parties arrived and pres ented their deeds at the land office Begister Davis immediately pronounced them a fraud and before Passoa could escape he was ar rested. Among the victims wers J. M. War xen, Omaha ;$Wm.T Warren, of Iowa; John Jackson, of Harlan, la. ; Joteph Garlow, of Panova, la. ; a gentleman named Early from Ohio, and another named Graham from Chicago. ALL FOUR DEAD. Tragic Close of the Career of Two Ala bama Couples Ten Orphans. " Miss Eva Doles died at the home of her father, Charles Fuller, two miles south of Crawford, Ala, Friday night.. Her death is a tragic ending of four lives. Ten years ago Ivey Doles and Tom Jones married twin sisters, daughters of Charles Fuller a highly respected citizen of Pussell county, Ala. For years the two men were warm, friends and intimate'y associated, in 1883 Jones kept a barroom in Seale and Doles Vwas Dep uty Sheriff of Russell county. The two men had a quarrel in Jones's bar one afternoon, when Jones- shot and killed-Doles., ones was tried, found gulty o! murder in. the second degree and sentenced to the Alabama penitentiary for eighteen years. - His lawyers however succeeded in getting a new trial, and Jones gave bond and was. released from jail. On the second trial in 1886 Jones was again convicted and sentenced this time for fifteen years. After being in "the penitentiary for about seven months-the Governor pardoned him on the recommeiidation of the peniten tiary physician, who gave it as his opinion that he was a-victim of consumption and had but a short lease of life . ' Jones return ed to his old home in Russell "county, where he died last winter. i . i . In the raean time Mrs : Doles and Mrs. Jones were living with their, father. About three weeks ago Mrs. Jonts died, leaving five little children. On Friday Mrs. Doles died, leaving five little children. . . Mr. Fuller, their grandfather has charge of these ten orphan children. ; - . - ' ' THE DRAPT WAS A FORGERY. How. a Western Bank Was Cheated By a Supposed Evangelist Last Sunday morning the : Rev. Mr. Baskweller, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Central City, Heb., answered the knock of a talL fine looking gentleman wear 4ng a handsome dark mustache and a sin' of black broadcloth cut af er -the most ap" proved clerical pattern."- He presented a letter of introduction from W. E. Kimball, of the Presbyterian Church at Madison, Neb. which stated that the bearer was ttie Rev B. Browns, of Lebanon, Tenn. The stranger wis cordially reca ved, and' in the evening preached in the Rev. Mr. Baskweller's pul pit a magnificent sermon, which won t-e hearts of thewhole congregation. -: At the end of.the service he was intro d ce 1, among others, to F. M. Persineer, Pi si lent -of the "First National Bank of Central City, and in the course of ihe conver sation remarked that he would nave some-4 buti aess at the bank : in the ourse of a day or two. Tue?day aftarnoon he appeared at the bank and presented a draft for $6,000, ouroortiug to be drawn on the Chemical National, of New York, by the First Na tional, of Lebanon, Tnn. . He asked for $1,500 in currency, deposited the balance to his credit and walked out .. Mr. Persinger's brother was suspicious, and sending a query to the Lebanon .Bank received a reply that the draft was a f orserv. 1 he Kev. ; Air. Browns had gone. He was traced, to Omaha and thence to C.nncil Bluffs. President Persinger and an officer are in pursuit KILLED -HIS MILY. THE AWFUL CRIME OF A WEAVER . IN CONNECTICUT. Shooting His Wife and Burning His Two Children to Death.' - JohnHodel, a silk weaver of Turnerville.. Conn., shot and killed his wife, and, setting fire to his house, smothered his two children, -' 'Wednesday morning. The people of the" village observed smoke escaping from tho roof of the houe and went in to put out . the blaze. ; They discovered - that - Mrs". Hodel had been tied to a bed and shot and that the husband, who was probably the -murderer, had ilea. While the posse went, out to hunt for . Hodel the people suddenly -remembered that the two children had not -been seen.- On going to their room, the little . ones were discovered in bed. One of the boy3 kved a short time, the other had been smothered. The excitement in the village as soon as . -these facts became known : was intense, and the indignation of the citizens found vent iu threats to lynch the inhuman wretch, i The man was finally found by the town Constable and placed ;, under arrest . lie cannot talk English, but through an interpreter taid that he and his wife made 1 an - agreement lv which he was to kill her and mo ooys ana Mien Kin nimseii. - tie saiu uiai hn . ha't tio l his wifo in the bedroom, and -:. then shot her, and had afterwards set fire to the house to burn up the boys, v - would have killed himself, but he broke the . ... gun. Hodel and his wife quarreled over a cow a few weeks ago, and the neighbors- say they have heard them quarreling frequently since. Hodel had been drunk for several? days. He was committed to the Tolland' County Jail to await the action of the Grand; Jury. . . - - Hriftal is t.hirl-v-flvn vpn.ra of fifn.- His wif . was about the same age, and the two boys Jacob and. Adolph, were three and six, re- ? spectively. " He has not heen in this country -very long, and says that he had just-sent $20 to his father in ' Switzerland . to -iepay moneyr borrowed for passage to this -coun-try. At the preliminary hearing the inter- Ereter testified that Hodel acknowledged that e had killed his wife and admitted that" he had burned the houee. Hodel, - however, . pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder. - KILLED AT HIS DESK: Fatal Accident in a Cleveland Office , " - Playing With a Gan, r : A deplorable accident, . by which W. J. occurred m the office of Pickartds, Mather & -Co. , at Cincinnati O. ; Early in the day the captain of the barge Reindeer ..carried to the . p office a Winchester rifle sent home from the Upper Lakes by a sonof CoL Pickands, who i3 on a hunting trip.: The outfit was placed in a large closet in one corner of the office : , and seperated from it by a wooden partition. , In this closet the office boy, Willie Wooley, ' a bright lad of fifteen years, usually remains , when there is nothing for him to do. The boy was evidently attracted by the rifle, and v must have been playing with it when; it was .. discharged. The ball passed through the wooden partition of the clos9t and buried itself in the body of Wm. J. Matson, a book- - i i 3 : j. .1 . 1 . n Keeper, wimj was an tiia urai ucoi s. the opposite door, and not two feet from it. Young Matson staggered from his desk to -the middle of the room and fell to the floor.- -Ha beo-an vomitine blood, and" the clerks - rushed in every direction in searcn oi- pnysi- v,. cians, but he died in fifteen minutes, MINERS BLOWN UP. One of Them Drops Sparks From His. - Pipe on a Keg of Powder. .. News reached Wheeling, W. Va., of a ter- rible explosion occurring at the coal mines v of the Maynard Coal Company's worts, lo- ' cated five miles west of the river in Ohio. . The accident occurred after the miners had quit work for the day and were preparing to' retire for the night J Fritz Richter, Julius Buckholz, Jack Kessler, John . Elkas and Henry Letter were gathered around the fire in the house they occupied jointly, it being v a larere frame structure. In it was stored a - quantity of tools, some oil and a keg of m in- mg powder. While smoking ana taiKing, one of the men emptied the contents of , his faihnnm nir cm t.hn nnwilfiP kfiC. and 80016 -' loose grains igniting, an explosion occurreu . t - i - ;oj . ...... which blew tne builamg mto pieces ana scuir- trfid the five men around with the debris. . J Richter and Buckholz were both frightfully 1' mangled, and their death is but a matter ot,.j. a few hours.- Kessler, Leber and Elkas were . very badly burned, out an enree win recover. . The. five men belong to Wheeling, they hav-. . -ing but recently obtained work at the mines. TWELVE PERSONS DROWNED. Loss of a Schooner and all on Board , ' "- - in a Squall I ; - - A distressing accident by wh'ch twelve or more persons lost' their lives,: happened in Pasquotank Sound, - N. C The . schooner Ocean Bird, Capt. Edward C. .Daniels, witn mails and passengers from Nag's Head and . Manteo, N. C, left the latter point- f or " Elizabeth City.; The vessel failed; to reach . her destination, and searching parties were . organized, one of which found an upturned boat of the Ocean Bird adrift in the sound. From the condition of the boat it is thought that the schooner was capsized by a squall. imnied ately sunk and that all on board per ished. -. ;-' - ' ;;. ". J-: - ' Besides Capt Daniels , and the crow there are known to have been on the schooner as muHnimN TS . n TTrwn. a Rfihool-teacher. of Elizabeth City, N. C.,,H. A Hendricks, a painter, of Nag's Head; Walter Midgett, of Kitty ha wk, ' and a son of Capt. Daniels. Relief parties are out srarching tor the miss ine vessel and any survivors. ' - . MARKETS. - Baltimore Flour City Mills, extra,$3.00 a$3.63; Wheat -Southern Fultz. 81aS2ots; Corn Southern White, 48a49cts, Yellow, 49a 50 cts. ; OatsSouthern and Pen sylvania 25a37cts. ; Rye Maryland and Pennsylvania 59a60cts. ; Hay Maryland and Pennsylvania 13 50a$14 50; Straw Wheat, 7.50a$8; Butter, Eastern Creamery, 26327019".,, near-by receipts 19a20cts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, Y&i al3cts.,- Western, 12al2cts. ; Eggs Jla2y ; Cattle' $2.50a4.00; Swine 6ia6ict3. ; . Sheep and Lamb 2a4)cts ; Tobacco Leaf Inferior, la$2.50; Good Common, 3 5tUi $4 50, Middling, 5a$ft00 Good to fine red, Ta?J Fancy, 10a$12. -- ; - r - - r Nkw York Flotw Southern Common to fair extra, 3.25a$4.00; Wheat No.l Whit ,82 a83cts. ; Rye State, 54a56; Corn Southern Yellow,51a52cts.; Oats White State j ollaol cts. ; Butter State, 17a2(j cts. ; Cheese State, lOalOJ-icts. ; Eggs 19a20 cts. -;" - Philadelphia Flour Pennsylvania, fancy, 3. 50a$4; Wheat Pennsylvania and Southern Red, 82a83 cts; Rve Pennsylvania 57a58cts. ; Corn Southern Yellow, G I a52 cts. Oate 36a37 cts. ; Butter State, ISal'J . ct h ; Cheese N. Y. Factory, lla!2 ts,; Eggs State, 17al8 cts.