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VOL. VII. . ; - . . ;
LEXINGTON AND THOMASVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1897.
NO. 11.
I WORK OF H.
Review of the Legislation of the
" Session Just Closed.
POi!R APPROPRIATION BILLS.
ew Provisions Added of Interest and
Imijortance Cost of Armor Plate
1 hf Arbitration Treaty Defeated.
Tho extraordinary cession of Con
pres j t i t closed was called by Presi
dent McKinley two days after he took
theo'a of office on the steps of the
(iij itoL It met in pursuance to his
; roelaiaation at noon March 15. The
: ; ( ciai nYessage transmitted by him to
h 1 1 Houses on the opening day was
I rit f !t explained the deficiencies in
rrwinioa, reviewed the bond issues
i f ; , !!i-t administration and urged
iCf fi promptly to correct the exist
iv ... '..ilition by parsing a tariff bill
t ,7.! s a ! I supply ample revenues for
t:..; Mi p yi t of the government and the
ii-pii lati' n -of the public debt. No other
s;: ci f legislation was mentioned
iu t ie message . and the tariff bill was
tL?-' -;i!i:-orbing feature of the session,
i ho Republican members of the ways
'ant i:i!Hiis committee of the preceding
Jlcii ha l been at work throughout
. thv r;"rt sesniou, which ended March
4. t,':iijg bearings and preparing tthe
n, '.yli it'll was" to be submitted at the
cx1ri session. Three days after the
e-..-.i-im opened the tariff bill was re
Hjituil to the House by the ways and
mft;i!iH committee, and thirteen dayn
Inter, oii .March 31, it passed the House.
r 1 1 . it to the Senate, was referred to
the e..::!!nitlee on finance, and the Re-
'u! lirti.-T 'member's of that- committee
. sj cut ii'iiionth. and three days in its
consideration and in preparing its
ii!LiL!id:.;eutt-, which, were submitted to
the Senary on May 4. Its considera
tion Viis-bcgfarTin.the Senate on May 7,
;:!! i exactly two months later, July
i! pas el the Senate with 872 amend
ment:!. ' ' ' ' '
li e bill then went to conference,
!:'! e, after a, ten days' struggle, on July
IT a complete agreement was reached
I. fviiK'h the Senate preceedeel from
lhjiiatsniluient and rthe House from
u I. i ho otliers (243 in number) were
"oinproinised. The conference reiort
ih n lupted-by the House July 10 at
the conclusion of twelve hoilrs of con-tiunaiL-
debate-7. The report was taken
up to .'ho Senate July 20 and adopted
ou u-.lay, the 24th. .
Cuii:t!s3 did not devote its attention
entirely tu the, tarift though it did sub
o?.li:t:i. everything else to this one
h.eii i i . 'i he four appropriation bills
whu-u : .t ile-i on' March 4th last in them
sehi s would have compelled President
l . 4 ...A. -lt fi L -
niiviif) io can congress iu eiua ses
sion, een if the necessity of a revision
of the tariff had not existed. Those ap
1'1,mii la'riiin bills were the sundry
civil', the agricultural, the Indian and
the - eiiei a! deficiency. These bills were
liitiiAluee l and passed by the House in
,il.e identical form in which they exist
ed at the time of their failure of enact
ment into law at tho preceding Centres;-;,
but they were amended in some
inirui t,i:it particulars by the Senate,
fiui when they finally became laws eon
tuine t mure or less new legislation of
iiitere.-i umt importance. -
1 he i: iieral deficiency carried a pro
vii'i!! aecejiting the invitation- to take
i!t ti;i the I'aris exposition in 11)00, and
K'l i"'i i -iat.il ..'), 000 to defray prehmi-u;i'-
v expenses and appropriated v?i ri0,
'' '';!( r a new immigrant station at New
leikto leplueo the one destroyed by
!:ie. ', i,iv the inost important piece
ofiiew h4;iIation in the bill, however,
as that limiting the cost of armor
! late h r the three new battleships to
p. r ton. In case the Secretary
t Uie avy should find it impossible to
i-iiike contracts for armor within
'J'ts pru e tixed, he was authorized by
nus pr ision to take steps to establish I
. -.--( i :i neni armor iaciory oi sum
' :' : t e.ji; ueity to make the armor. In
r -nt h this authority he must pre
l;i ' a ih -ei iption and plans and speci
i:c.i!i..us yi the land, buildings and ma-'
c:n:u-. suitable for the factory adver
,tse lor proposals and report to Con
Pess at. its next session.
bi the huliau bill, after a ! severe
stfru-ule m both Hotfses, the question
-m etanan schools was settled by the
I' i.vs i;.- declaration of the policy of
t-ie t i ument: 1
'J hat the Secretary of tho Interior
m.pv ,1I1!,kf contracits with contract
h.u,n, apportioning as near as may bo
"J'C'i!ii so contracted .lor among
S'.'L m:,.s of various denominations, for
' c e ;i, ;!th)U Df Jxullan puiils during
J--c ycu! year 181-8, but shall only make
-en , tracts at places where noi.-
' , , -'ools cannot be provided tor
'ica ii! "nan children and to an amount
e ,, ,Kig 4(j per centum of the
v-i'u; 'x used . for the fiscal year
4 ae t .; :;e- t ion of niipnin rr in pntrr thrt
ric
" i ' r J
ite deposit in the Uiicora
ie:ervAtioh in Utah was. also
;ed by opening such agricul
as ime not been allotted to
ti;f S '
ahgro Indians on April 1,
try, but reserving to the
j.;';' ''' ' .'" ;i cs tit'e in all lauds eontain-
fe ' aspuan or ottier tiKesuD-
, ! '; : udry civil bill the most im--,'
; ' tw provision- was that sus
i ;' ' y:: -- ; e oi -dr of President Clave
- a-i.le about 21,000,010 as
rvations; The law. also in
' '"ieral scheme of legislation
!j t ament and -protection of
r ' ' ; ! f vvations of the country.
1 . :.'"'-blie:m leaders of the House
P " ' t e oj euiug of the session to
i, " iu y of . inaction in order to
ip ; ' i t ponsibUity for delaying
( bin upin the Senate, and
.. "';'.'"' ' - tue committees were not an
,' ' '' the close of the session,
Y Li.' ;ient matters were consid
. ! ' thousand dollars were a.p-
1' 'r .tue'-relief of American
t.. - 1 uba at the solicitation of
!.' ": ';!lt- .2!)0,000 was appropri
.1 ', ' ! ' e relief -of the Mississippi
a, ' ''. ,!'-!'ers; a resolution was passed
t , ! i !-,g the Secretary of the Navy
, :t supplies contributed for
p ; 1 the ioor and famishing in
f. ".".''' M ' -(, yoO' were .appropriated
y ;'1 rtainuient and expeutes of
tcs to the universal postal
con vention, who met in this .city.
T he only extensive pieces" of "general
legislation enacted by this Congress,
except the tariff bill, were the laws to
prevent collisions at sea.and to place in
foTce regulations to prevent collisions
upon certain harbors, rivers and inland
waters of the United States, and th
bill authorizing the President to sus
pend discriminating duties on foreign
vessels and commerce.
The Senate, notbein confined as to
the scope of its legislation, dealt with
a luainber of important subjects both in
and out of executive session. One of
these, which attracted world-tvide at
tention, was the !; general arbitra
tion treaty negotiated by President
Cleveland with (Jreat Britain. After
exhaustive consideration, despite the
great irressure brought tq bear upon the
Senate by religious and commercial
bodies throughout! the country, the
Senate rejected the; treaty. The Ha
waiian treaty of annexation negotiated
by President McKinley, vas still un
acted upon when Congress adjourned.
In open session, after much debate,
the Senate passed the Cuban belliger
ency resolution a bankruptcy , bill, in
cluding both voluntary and involunta
ry features, and the; ''free homes" bill.
Jint noue of these important questions
leceived consideration in the House.
BUYING COTTOnI IN NEW YORK.
Cotton Sent From! the South Being
Shipped Bnelc to Southern Mills.
Mr. A. P. Ilhyne, the .Mt Holly (N.
C.) cotton manufacturer, was in Char
lotte last week and in an interview with
a News reporter said his mill work
ing cotton that was shipped from Geor
gia to New York, and in now shipped
from New York back to North Carolina.
A great rmtny of 48 North Carolina
mills are now buying their cotton in the
New York market, and the Goldsboro
(N. C. ) mill last wCek had shipped to
them from New York cotton that was
last fall sold on the Joldsboro market;
it still had the Goldsboro tag on it after
traveling to New Y'ork and back.
it costs now only ten centstoship
from Galveston to New York and ten
cents from New York1 to Norfolk. The
rate war between the- ocean steamship
lineH has so demoralized rates that one
can ship from Galveston to New York
via Norfolk to Charlotte for less than
half the cost of shipping from Galves
ton to Charlotte direct.
THIS VIKGIXIA POPULISTS.
One Nomination Made Five 'Men to
Iix Up the Balance of the Ticket.
At the Populist State convention as
sembled at' Roanake, Ya., Major
Gaines withdrew from. the race for the
nomination of Lieutenant Governor,
and Capt. Edmund Iii Cocke was nom
inated by acclamation.
Capt. Cocke accepted the honor and
thanked the convention, for conferring
it upon him. It was decided to make no
further nominations for the other two
places on the State ticket, but to ex
pedite matters a committee, consisting
cf General James G.l Shield, of Fau
quier, chairman;. J. Haskin Hobson,
Lr. T. W. Evans, of Campbell; Sena
tor W. H. Hale, of Franklin, and W.
II. Graverly, of Henry, was appointed
with full power to add or to take from
as deemed best. In short their duties
are to look after the interests of the
party, in case the Democratic conven
tion decides to endorse their candidate.
There was a hot speech by General
Field. The convention adjourned sine
die. 1 , -
AMERICANS IN CUBAN PRISONS.
i . . -a
Consul General Lee Gives State De
partment Their Names.
Consul General Lee has informed the
Stafe Department at Washington that
in the event .of the release of the Amer
ican, Louis Snielian, now confined in
jail at Havana, there will remain of
American citizens imprisoned in Cuba
in addition to the five Competitor pris-
nnorq rvn 1 xr tVio f nl Inwinfl1 ! :
Manuel Feenandez, confined in Fort
Cabanas fPafael Fernandez Y Diaz, at
Sagua La Giande; Julio Thomas Sainz
and Frauk Agramont, at Santiago.
All of1 these prisoners are charged
with rebellion with arms in hand and
are held subject to the ordinary milita
ry jurisdiction. Thej United States
consul at Manzauiilo has cabled the
secretary of State a contradiction of the
story that Albert Slusser, an American,
has been captured by (Spanish troopa
and taken to that place. :
INTERN At. JliEVENUE RECEIPTS.
Report of the Commissioner Shows a
Decrease From the Previous Year.
The preliminary report of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue for the
year ended June 30; 1837, shows that
the total receipts during the period
were $14G,GU),5, a decrease as com
pared with the jprevious year of $211,
10i) The receipts for the several
sources of revejiue, with the increase
or decrease, as compared with the
fiscal year IS-Jii, are stated as fol
lows: Spirits S82,00S,55S, an in
crease of s1.:k;S, 4S7; tobacco $3,710,207;
a decrease of $l,S3t; fermented liquors
892,472, 1(52, a decrease of 1,312,073;
oleomargarine 1,034,129, a decrease of
s:s-,::o: tilled cheese $18,093 ".(law not
in force in ltfh;-); miscellaneous $337,
2S.?, a !cerease of $t9,S3J. Banks and
bankers $8-j, a decrease of $49. The
amount of -withdrawals j for consump
tion during the last year is , given as
follows: Fruit brandy l,14v, 131 gallons,
a decrease of 2;!4,07y; whiskey JJ8,S33rr
24") gallons, an increase of 1,793,331;
beer, porter and ail 24,-23,U94 barrels.a
decrease of l,4o:;,(04. j i
.Number of cigars and cheroots
weighing over 3 pounds per 1,000,
4,(SJ,U9,0V7? number ;of cigarettes,
4,153,222, : 47 v an increase of 109, 453,723,
tobacco, chewing and smoking, 2G0,
784.812 pounds, an increase of 7,087,
5t7; oleomargarine, 42, 534, 550 pounds,
a decrease of 5,089,214.
The States froni which the larger col
lections were made during the year are
given as follows: Illinois $32, 115.922;
154,7tfo.
iew iorK, is, ttw; iveniucity, cio,
i57,957; Ohio, $12,748,8f;8; Pennsylva
nia, $11,44(5,3 17; Indiaoa, $8,5(54,303;
Missouri, $7,3(54, G62: Maryland, $5,-
Bill Wl WIEKLY lEIIlt
BUELESQUE OX A POEM
BRINGS
OX A DISCUSSIOXj
MRS. ARP EXPRESSES HERSELF.
William Realizes That He I OrJr
Plain, Unrefined Specimen mt liio
Genus Homo.' 1
The last letter I had about the poem
was anonymous. Of course I it was,
for it read. j j
"Man wants but little here below.
So Young and Goldsmith say;
But woman wants it all, you know
And wants it right away.' j
Mrs. Arp was sewing on some infan
tile garment as I quietly laid the mis
sive on her lap. I She neither smiled
nor frowned nor stopped the play of
her needle as she remarked "Maybe
they do, but they don't -get it nor ex
pect." .- .) j , -
"I reckon," said I, "that some stingy
old benedict wrote that; some fellow
who would. spend more money on his
horse than. on his wife."
"No," said Mrs. Arp, ''it was some
old bachelor whose rejected addresses
have made him cynical and like Byron
he vents his . revenge in doggerel.
When you go down town ! wish tou
would see Mr. Hicks about that dining
room chair. Maybe he can put a new
cane bottom to it. We need it some
times when we have company, and
that old sideboard ought to be revar
nished and have hew knobs. (Do you
know how old that sideboard is?"
"Yes," said I, 'Jim Sumter made it
in 1852. He was one of the best men
and best . workmen I ever knew. I
paid him $50 for the sideboard. He
was a well-read, well-bred man, a good
neighbor and a good citizen, and I
have respect for the sideboaril. j It is
like an epitaph on his tombstone and
seems to read, 'Sacred to the memory
of ' Yes, I will see Mr. Hicks about
the sideboard. Is there anything else
in his line that you want?"; j
"No," said shej "but you know we
are obliged to have another extension
table. We gave burs to Jesse when
she was married, and have been
using one that was left here three
years ago, and now the owner has
settled down and wants itj Yo had
better attend to this right away."
"Eight away, right away," I mused.
"But woman wants it all you know, i
And wants it. right away." t I 1
! - - I i ' '
Mrs. ' Arp looked ot me and re
marked, "I want these things for you
and the children. It's precious little
that I want for myself now. " j ' ;
I don't think she admires the song
or the sentiment, i j
"I know it, I know it, my dear,"
said I. ! "There was a time when you
wanted a good deal for yourself j and it
pleased me to gratify your every wish
and more than you asked for. Nothing
was too good for you when I had the
money. Silks and sables, lawns and
muslins, a carriage and horses, Wilton
carpets and damask curtains, and so
forth, and so on, et cetera, e pluribus
unum. But anno domini kept rolling
on and the war cam 9 and I discovered
that you were gradually losing your
concern for yourself, and all your care
was for your children. I was rumi
nating about - this while you were
stitching away so earnestly upon that
little garment, for now your love and
care have lapped over to another
generation. The little grandchildren
have come in fori a share of your
maternal! love, and your j personal
wants have come down to a minimum.
Of course you -must be clothed as
becomes the maternal head of nu
merous and lovely offspring, for if
you are not a queen you have reigned
in pur home nearly as long as Queen
Victoria has in England and" i
"Well, that will do now," Jsaid my
wife. "You had better go to town.
Aunt Ann says the rice is out and the
cowf eed too. " j i I s
"I was ruminating," said I, "how
fortunate it was that your ! ambition
surrendered about the time my money
did. You ceased to crave as fine things
as I used to get you. You j adapted
your wants' to our misfortunes. Why,
forty years ago I would not have let
you go about in that grizzly gray, mus
lin. I had a contempt for cheap things,
especially for you; didn't I, my dear?"
"You certainly did," she sai l with
a kind of sad, i reminiscent Jsmile in
her tone of vdice, "but this muslin U
good enough now. But you had bet
ter go to town. There are four little
grandchildren hereto dinner, and Aunt
Ann wants the rice right away.' j
"And wants it right away,' I hum
med to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne."
Somehow I can't get that refrain out
of my mind "And wants it right
away." ' ! - ' .
Sometimes I think that men don't
understand nor appreciate woman'
nature. She was created with a love
for the beautiful, for ornament,! for
gems, jewels and gold and silverware
and damask anl fine linen. !
She can't help her nature,' and this
very oat are proves that she is nearer
heaven than we are. What do I care
for diamonds? Not a cent. I wouldn't
'give a dollar for a bushel of them.! An
old-fashioned tin waiter with flowers
painted on it is as good as a silver one
to me. I wouldn t wash
tne wiuaow
class more ihan ov.ee a
rear, and a
wash-pan Miits me as well as a china
basin. But I recoguize the fact that I
am a" man with an unrefined nature.
The twelve gates of the new'Jerusalem
that are made of precious stones are
no attraction to me; neithe- are the
gold -paved streets thai St. John saw
in his vision. But still I have hope
of getting there and becoming more
refined, for I do love flowers and
pretty birds! and orauge trees and
luscious fruits and beautiful sce
nery and mountain s and the great
waters '. of the mighty sea. My
wife and my daughte-s can spend
half a day in looking a the beautiful
things in the show win lows in Alban
ia, but I never stop to gaze or to ad
mire, cicept, perhaps, to look at the
photographer's display or the life-like
models of lovely women that seem
smiling at my three-score and ten.
Beading and observation teach me
that all good men have reverence for
womankind and are conscious of her
better nature, her better morals and
emotions. Shakespeare and Scott
write of women as ministering angels.
Wads worth says of her creation:
"A perfect woman nol !v Planned, j
To warn, to comfort ai: command."
No great poet save such a rake as
Byron would have w tien:
"As well believe a vror aa. or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false." , ;
Even Solomon in all his glory with
his wives and concubines said:
"Young man, rejoice with tho wife of thy
youth, and be thou always ravished with
her love." j
Edward W. Bok says in The Ladies'
Home Journal, "No economy is so
false and misguided' as that which
seeks to withhold one pleasnre from
the life of a good woman, a true wife
or a loving mother. The best home a
man can give her becomes tiresome if
she is asked to live in it and stay in it
3G5 days in a year. The Lord knot s
that woman's life is hard enough. She
travels a path of endurance and suf
fering to which the average man is an
entire stranger. Then let us make
that path as pleasant, as easy and as
bright as possible. Every dollar that
a man spends on his home for tho
happiness and comfort of his wife will
come back to him four-fold."
That is true -all true. Better mend
the broken pane or that sash cord or
that gate latch and sometimes take an
hour off from business and take her to
ride. The Odd Fellows and Masons
and Knights of Pythias are good insti
tutions, but should not come in between
a man and his wife. The mother wants
help with the children, for I tell you,
my brethren, there is no care nor
anxiety like nursing and caring for a
little- child, and nobody but a mother
will do it willingly. A mother. who
has reared eight or ten children from
infancy to maturity, and four years of
the time during a pitiless war, when
she had to flee from the foul invader
with her little ones and hide them,
half clad and ; always hungry, can say
with Paul, "I have fought a good
fight; I have finished my course." Yes,
PauUsaid that, but he was an old
bachelor, and knew nothing of what a
mother suffers. The most pathetic
line in all poetry is that of Fitz-Greene
Halleck, where he apostrophizes death:
"Come to the mother when she feels
For the first time her first-born's breath."
The death of a young mother in child
birth is the saddest "of all nature's
calamities. !
Maternal love maternal interest!
What is it that so inspires a woman to
bear her fate to suffer and be strong?
Bill Akp in Atlanta Constitution. I
TRADE AS VIEWED BY JOBBERS.
27 States Indicate an Increase In the
Volume of Business.
The Wholesale Grocer, of Chicago,
111., published answers from jobbers
all over the country, to questions re
garding trade. The replies were from
jobbers in twenty-sevea States and
fifty per cent, show an increase in the
volume of businesp for the first half of
1897, as compared with the same period
last year ; 30 per cent, report the vol
iim'e'about the same, and 20" per cent,
note a decrease. The question of
definite improvement in conditions was
answered affirmatively by 10 per cent,
fiectionally, G4 per cent, of the jobbers
in the Southern Ststes, 65 in the East
ern, 70 from the Western.,' and 95 per
cent, from the Central States, said
"yes"to the question.
A PREACHER'S PROPHECY.
West Virginia Minister Says .God
Sent Prosperity Is Coming,
Rev. Chas. Ghiselin, a Presbyterian
minister at Shepardstown, W. Va. , has
published an open letter to the farmers
of this country prophesying that wheat
is soon to go to $1 a bushel, and urges
them to form a combination among
themselves, helping to tide eaoh other
over until this propesy is realized. He
says prosperity has come as a gift from
God, and not from any political party
or measure.
He bases his prediction on the 75,
000,000 bushels supply and the appar
ent Eastern demand. He figures a
profit to the United States of $200,000,
000 on the crop.
THE COMING ISSUE.
Senator Butler Says it Is Government
Ownership of Monopolies.
A special to the Wilmington, X. C,
Messenger from Raleigh: Populist
National Chairman Marion Butler says
in a signed editorial: "Public owner
ship of national monopolies is the com
ing issue. Conditions are daily creat
ing stronger public sentiment in every
quarter of the countrv for this solution
of the -gravest problem before the
American people. The greatest issue
of modern times is now squarely drawn.
This and the money question will be
the two overshadowing issues in the
campaign of 1600.
"Mrs. Saver must fel that she was
very extravagant In buying that new
gown." "What makes you think so?"
he's begun to argue that It will be
tht cheapest In the end." Chicago
-lournlL
fTraham and rye- brad and fresh
fruit in plenty, pariicukny oranges, be
fore breakfast, are of great benefit to
persons of eontlDatpd hahits-
R.R COMMISSION CIRCULARS
A Magistrate Convicted of Com
pounding a Felony.
OLD NORTH STATE CULLINGS.
Blg Revenues Soldier Pays an Old
War Debt Making Money Out of
Poultry.
The railroad commission on the 27th
issued the following circular:
From and after the 1st day of Sep
tember, 1897, the Western Union' Tele
graph Company shall not charge of
collect more than" l."i cents for ti an s-
j mitting- any message of ten words or
under, exclusive of date, . address and
signature, beween any two points with
in the limits of this State on its lines,
nor more than one cent for each addi
tional word.
Whenever a message is sent over two
or more telegraph lines owned, con
trolled and operated by separate and
distinct corporations or individuals, the
joint rate shall not exceed 30 cents for
each message of ten body words or less,
exclusive of date, address and signa
ture, between any two points within
the limits of this State and one cent i or
each additiional word. Effective Sep
tember 1st.
Telegraph companies other than the
Western Union Telegraph Compauy
shall be allowed to charge and collect
20 cents tor a message of ten body
words or under, exclusive of date, ad
dress and signature, between any two
points within the limits of this State,
on their respective lines and not more
than one cent for each additional word.
Effective September 1, 1S97.
The foflowing figures give some idea
of the great volume of business done
m the Asheville office of the internal
revenue. The statement covers from
July 1, 189(5, to June 30, '97:
Lists 29,853 4
Spirits 581,25144
Cigars and cigarettes. ... . 4,848 30
Snuff 601 80
Tobacco 1,055,872 39
Special tax " 15,059 01
Total
The amounts by
July, 189G
August, 1896
September, 1896 ..
.... $1,6S7,592 48
months follows:
...$......8121,172 28
126,400 33
...1 152,414 83
October, 1836
November, 1896..
December, 18')6..
January, 14 J....
February, 1897...
March, 1897......
i
.... 147,283 83
135,668 01
161,211 2.j
.... 106,003 07
148,465 2!i
144,949 17
v-. 120.831 9:
.... 131.657 05
.... 13,424 52
April, 1897.
May, 1897
June, 1897..
Total $1,687,592 4S
The collections at the various offices
for the year were-:
Winston. . . .. . i. . . . . .$130, 114 60
Statesville U. 469,330 91
Asheville . 216,070 61
Mt. Airv 122,066 36
F. E. Hege, chief of the poultry de
partment of th State Experiment Sta
tion, is arousing much interest in "fowl
culture," in the State. He says the
chickens and eggs produced are now
worth more in cash than any agricul
tural product. The raising of chickens
for the Northern markets is a profitable
and growing industry. In one day re
cently 40,000 chickens were shipped
from two points to the Northern mark
ets. Several county; poultry associ
ations have lately been formeff and the
Buncombe Association has just been
incorporated. Poultry fairs are to bo
held at Shelby, Asheville aud Char
lotte. '
In the Superior Court at Concord, I).
M. Widenhouse and M.. M. Furr, both
of No. 9 township, r Cabarrus county,
have been convicted of compounding a
felony. Mr. Furr is oneof the Populist
magistrates. He ihas been deposed
from office of justice of the peace and is
to be deprived of any "office of honor or
public trust in the State of North Caro
lirxt and to pay a fine of 50 and the
costs. Mr. Widenhouse was fined $20
and the costs. Both have been given
notice of appeal. Never in the history
of Cabarrus ha.s such charges been
brought against her officers. Charlotte
Observer.
- During the war Jesse Snatherly, a
Confederate soldier from Montgomery
conutjv saved the life of a New York
soldier who was wounded. The woods
had caught fire and the Federal sol
dier called for help. Snatherly took
him to a safe distance and provided
him with water. He has sent Snatheriy
8800. -
The railway commission increases
the valuation of all the divisions of the
Atlantic Coast Line, the Southern and
tLe Seaboard Air Line; it decreases the
valuation of the Atlantic and Danville;
the others remain the Fame; the in
crease on lailways, steamboat and tel
egraph lines is about $3,OW.000.
While Deputy Revenue Collector Hill
and a posse were making a raid on
moonshiners in Lenoir county they
were fired on by ambushed moonshin
ers. F. T. . Harper was hit by four
buckshot and seriously injured. Arrests
will follow. The moonshiners are
known. The still was destroyed.
It is f-aid that under the new law no
pictures or coupons can be put in
cigarette boxes or in j smoking tobacco
packages and the statement is made
that thi will throw a lot of people out
emlovment.
The truck crop in the eastern part cj
the State has proven very remunerative
this seasou, and the GoMsboro-Ariras
savs that a'oag the line of railroad be
tween that place and Wilmington large
quantities of strawberry plants are be
ing planted.
The "gold fever" has spread from
StaaU-v countv into Rowan. Some
good finds are being made.
Representative Linnev'ha intro-lno-
ed a bill to reduce the tax on distilleJ
spirits to 70 cents per tal Ion-
JEWS IN PALESTINE.
Scheme for an Independent State ia
Favored By Hebrews.
A cablegram from London says 1 he
representatives of the Baron Hirsch
charities seem to take very seriously the
scheme of Dr. Theodore Hertzl, of
Vienna, for the formation of an inde
pendent Jewish State in Falet:ne. It
is said that the Hebrews are organizing
in all parts of the world. '
The Doctor intends first to send an
exploring- expedition to thoroughly)
overhaul the land from end to end. -and
to establish telephones, telegraph ami
other modern l scientific conveniences
before opening the territorj' to general
settlement.
To obtain sovereignty over Palestine,
he fays, will be easy, as tho Turks will
be glad to let it go. He joints to his
decoration to the' Turkish government
as evidence Jhat he thinks favorably of
his scheciA. It Turkey should refuse
to give Palestine up, he says the Otto
man empire will disintegrate, and then
a Jewish company can.' obtain Pales
tine when the powers divide up Turki?k
territory. .
If it proves impossible to' get Pales
tine he will turn to Argentina.
To confer on this point a congress
will be held at Bastle on tho 2Mb.. The
Doctor says there is no doubt that this
congress will be the redeemer of the
Hebrews. There is no intention to
follow socialistic lines. He proposes
a limited monarchy like that of Great
Britain.
The capital of the Jewish company is
to be 8250,000,000.
NO SEIZURES TO BIO MADE
The Order About Coupons or Articles
Attached to Smoking Tobacco,
Cigarettes, Ktc, -Modified.
A modification of the receut circular
of instructions to collectors of internal
revenue has been made. Theso in
structions declare that all packages of
smoking tobacco, fine cut, chewing to
bacco, or cirarette8, containing articles
prohibited by section 1') of the new
turilfact, or having stich article at
tached or connected therewith, or ad
vertising any promise or oner or gift,
reward or prize, contrary to the pro
visions of the new act, are subject to
seizure. r
The new order directs that all viola
tions of this section of tho act be re
ported to the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, but no Feizurfe" shall be made
without specific instructions from him.
Some Question has arisen as to the pow
er of the department, in the premises.
The contention is made that Congress
has no power to fix by law regulations
governing the packing of articles sub
ject to internal revenue, unless in 8oiue
way the power gr convenience of the
government in the collection is allected;
also that this provision is in restraint
of trade, and interfered with legitimate
business. Until the department has
determined the question no seizures
will be made under this provision of the
law.
RACE WAR. IN. T E X A S.
Two Negroes Killed and a Number of
Others .Shot at u Stone Quary.
A squad of negroes who had been
working on' the Kansas City, Houston
and Galveston railroad, near West
Lake, La., were recently transferred
to the stone quary near Thornbeek,
Texas. Whites of the neighborhood
objected to the negroes beiug employed
in the quarry and a pitched battleroe
curred between the whites and negroes.
Two" of the negroes were mortally
wounded, and several others were less
seriously shot. Knives, guns and pis
tols were used in the melee.
I ROUSEK-MAKERS 'STRIKE.
Three Thousand Walk Out In Sew
York.
In New York three thousand trouser
makers have struck to enforce the in
crease of piece-work prices, m as to en
able them to earn about $10 weekly
each. The week's work is fifty-nine
hours. Nearly all the stukers are mem
bers of Pants-Makers' Union No! 1.
Since last fall the prices for making
trousers have been reduced so that the
operators who work steadily every day
make only about 86 a wex-k. They
claim that they cannot sup tort them
selves and families on this pittance.
BAD CROI XKH'S.'.
The Kansas Corn Crop KIate by
Hot Winds Not Over Half ;i Crop.
A special to theTojeka (Kans. ) Capi
tol from every corn producing county
in the State show that this year's Kan
sas crop of corn will not be over 5o per
cent, of last year's. Hot winds have
withered the product in the southern
half of the State, and few fields will
average over fifteen bushels to the acre.
In the sonthern portion, except iu the
far east, there will be no corn. In the
northern belt, north of the Kansas
river, though needing rain, corn, has
not shown the least sigu of dronght,
and will make a full crop if relief cornea
within a week. No hot winds have
blown there, - '
FOUGHT IN A CIICRCH.
The Pator Said It Was a Church
and Community of Liar.
There was almost a riot in the Mem
orial Methodist Protestant Church at
Camden, N. J., caused by Pastor I'et
titt declaring that, "there are liars in
this church, and the whole communitv
is a setof liars." to which Trustee Mor
gan took exception, rising to protest
Another trustee started to put Morgan
out, and Morgan showed light, the
prompt interference of others prevented
a serious not.
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Collapse of Boom Properly.
A Fitecial'telegraiu from Florence,
Ala. , to the St. Louis Pos.t-Dispatch,
njs : All the proiterty of the Floi-ecre
Land, Mining and-' Manufacturing
Comi-any. and the Florence Kdacation-
r.l and Development Company, has!
been cold at auction to X. t. Ltlin-
agent for creditors, for 8tO,ow. The
property was once thought to be w orth
.um.tfio, and was bonght up by the
land company prior to the lJoxu "
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NEWS ITEMS
Southern Penril Painters.
In court at Winchester, Va , t o law
yers had a dispute, and one struck the
other with an mkeUnd iullicting a dan
gerous wound.
Albert II. Heitz, a well-known phos
phate miner at Charleston, ace deutally
shot and killed himself.
The national association of Dental
Examiners and representatives of the
chief dental colleges met at Old Point,
Va.
Before the Tennessee liar Associa
tion Justice Walter Clark, of North
Carolina, delivered en address; head-'
vocated many changes in the federal
constitution," which he says is now un
democratic. A cotton mill at Natchez, Miss., sus
pends w ork for want of raw cotton.
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At Starke, Fla., Henry Crosby killed
himself with ioisou; his wife also took
loisou, but her life was saved.
'In Charlotte, N. C. during the pant
year 240 new buildings have been
erected, and there are now being built
112. Besides this, two cotton factories,
the Louise mill and the webbing
factory of Mr. A. C. Smumerville have
been built, the tine new courthouse ha
been completed, and a large number of
business buildings have been remodeled
until they are practically new build
ings? Tho News.
(Joyernor Atkinson, of Oeorgia, has
refused fo interfere iu theease of John
Tyler Cooier, former Mayor of Atlanta,
and later clerk of the county commis
sioners, convicted of embezzling; funds
of the county, aud Coojter w ill have to
serve three month's imprisonment, to
which he was sentenced by tho court.
A syndicate is about to close the pur
chase of most cf the coal mines of Fast
Tennessee; the price is about 85,ooo,
000, and if, successful over 3,000 miners
will be given employment.
There isj a rumor in Laurens, S. C,
that Ex-Hejnator Irby is to draw out of
the Congressional race and help Ex
Governor Evans.
The Virginia, Populists may tender
the nomination of Governor to Tyler.
Prof. 1. H. Patterson, an educated
aud influential negro, was murdered iu
a church iu Montgomery, Ala.
The IJanister Baptist Association
(colored) in session at Houston, Va ,
adopts resolutions denouncing criminal
assaults on white women, and the class
of negroes who commit them.
The attendance at the Tennesee Cen
tennial Exposition last week numbered
45,398.
Governor's Guards, of Austin, won
the interstate drill at Han Antonio,
Tex. Neeley Zouaves won tho Zouave
prize.
Dr. Scott, brother-in-law of Governor
Bradley, sujteriutendent of the Eastern
Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, has been
declared unfit for the place by tho
grand jury, and his removal demanded.
An insurance company has withdraw n
its business from Greenville, X. C. ,
Pitt count-, because it did not deem it
6afe to continue its business iu a town
controlled by negroes.
General Lafayette McLaws, the old-,
est surviving Confederate major gen
eral, died .Sunday at Savannah, Ga ,
aged 76 j-ears. v .
The stewards in the Methodist church
at Albettsville, Ala., finding' their
church revenue insufficient, have levied
an annual tax of 810 on each tobacco
chewing member of the congregation.
The plan is raid to work admirably and
to bring in a goodly revenue.
It is reported that Florida will get
some relief from the hated water hy
acinth. A red spider is said to be rap
idly destroying the plants.
The erection of a twenty-ton cotton
seed oil mill w ill be commenced at La
vonia, (iu., at once.
- Savannah's first new bale of cotton
was sold at 10 cents, and classed at ful
ly middling,
Florian Biudewald, of the Augusta
(Ga. ) Brewing Company, w as drowned
while iu bathing.
Charles Walsh was shot and killed
by a j.olieemau in Atlanta, Ga., while
resitting arrest.
All About the North.
Schlatter, the "divine healder" found
dead in Arizona! has "reappeared" in
Canton, O.
In the 16 to 1 saloon at Texarkana.
Ark.. J. W. Foster shot and in
stantly "killed Kiley Balthrop, a mer
chant. The Democrats of Maryland held
held their State convention; Iianuouy
prevaih-d and everything went as Gor
man dictate! ; it declared for bimetal
lism without specifying any ratio.
At Vonkers, X. Y. , -fire destroys a
factory in w hich were working Wj men
and girls; there were no casnalities."
William ll. Valentine, a well-knpwn
Brooklyn newspaperman, who claimed
to Ite the author of "Casey at the Uat,"
died at Oyster Bay, L. I., aged 3
year?, of abscess of the brain.
The Brooklyn Jockey Club announces
the Junior Champion Stake of 815,0"l
for 2-year-olds, to be run iu ''j.
A lodging honse that will cost 350.-
000, where working people can find
comfortable homes at cheap rates will
soon be completed in Xew Yok.
M iceltaneou.
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Floods in (iermany are doing gi eat
3ama.'.
A cyclone at San Jose, 1 11., killed five
people. - - ,
President McKinley is having a good
time at Lake Cnplaia.
United States is Vrotesticg against
Canada's copyright policy.-
A bride and groom comruitleoj aicid
at Hous-ton, Tex., because the latter
could not find work.
Forty steamers have ben chartered
in Atlantic i-orts to load grain for Eu
rope. The i-artial eclipse of the sun, which
was vii-ible in thfs part of the United
States, on the -'-th, is the last solar
eclipse that will'be visible in this part
until May 27. 1X. " '
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