VOL. VII. ....'!;
LEXINGTON ANDTHOMASVILLE, N. C THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, t897.
NO. A'2-
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MMl SERMON:
voted Washington imvink'sJ
Sl NDAV IHSCOURSH.
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,preal,p the wonderful Personal
1 . . a 1 C? I M a
ifjjTii'M" "l ' nmiunr rot BOr-
' row H'" Miracle and His
r, infinite Sympathy for All Mankind.
Txt: "in- name shall be called wonder-
jvjL" isakh ix., 6. '
TherP--"'"1 live,3 1Q a dark time, for
jo-iwSOOO ynrs the world had been getting
w5r5p. ; Kin-lorna had arisen and perished,
ii tbe oftj'tain of a vessel In distress sees
jplinf cornfi'ij across the water, so the
pr't tt,airi1l lhn stormy times In whlohhe
lived, put h.;- tf-lescope of prophecy to his
Ve a 1 750 years ahead, one Jesus ad
Ttisdn tf r-soue. I want to show that
bn is ai.'tli mailed Christ the Wonderful
jr. spoke wi.vly.
In most" houses there is a picture of
Christ. Sf nii tlmes It represents Him with
" eff'Tninatf, sometimes with a face
d-spoti.'. , l Iiavo seen West's grand sketch
of tbe H '-' t" of Christ. I have seen the
fa-H'.-f r'.n-t a cut on an emerald, said to
t by i"nin vunl of Tiberius Cassar, and yet
I am f'lviji'-e.i that I shall never know
how Ju I'X'krvl until, on that sweet Sab
tath ni-riiiui; I phall wash the last sleep
frclii my v. - in the cool river of heaven.
ltni up i 'us hook of divine photographs,
an t I I o'k ft Luke's sketch, at Marie's
sketch, an I John's sketch and at Paul's
sket-h, a-i-i I pay, with Isaiah, "Wonder
fuj:" I think i h.'it you are all interested in the
story of ehii-t. You feel that He is the
only on; who can help you. You have un-ijoamh-i
u-h-ni ration for the commander
who lx-lpt"! his j.afsengers ashore while he
to-elf p- ri-h'-'i, i,ut have ou no admira
ti jd for J I iiii w!io rescued our souls, Him
irlf fill! in;,' tt.i -k into the waters from which
He ha 1 ?a v 1 us?
Chris-, was wonderful in the magnetism
Of His CP-Oil.
, After tho battle of Antietamwhen a gen
eral r o h: ill jii'j; tho lines, although, the
soldiers were lying down exhausted, they
rosy with n-at enthusiasm and huzzaed.
As N;ipol. (,.n returned from bis captivity'
Lis Hr.-t sl'-p on the wharf shook nil the
kiutj'loms, ; arid 250.000 men joined his
ftau larl. it took 3000 troops to watch him
in bis eih So there have been men of
wonderful uKiijiietitini of person. But hear
nw whil" 1 t-II you of a poor young man
vh oatii" up from Nazareth to produce a
thrill sii-h as has never been excited by
any oHit. Napoleon had around him the
memories of Awsterlitz and Jena and Bada
jos, hut hi re was a man who had fought no
battle, who wore no epaulets, who'bran
dBlwl no sword. He is no titled man of the
schools, for He never went to school. He
Aa i prohably never seen a prince or shaken
bamls with a nohloinau. The only extraor
dinary p.-rtsoii we know of as being in His
t'ompniiv was His own mother, and she was
eo poor that in the most delicate and solemn
hour that v. r "omes to a woman's soul she
wa-s ohliK' I to lie down amid camel drivers
g5omiu the beasts ot burden.
, I imagine Christ one day standing irf the
struts of Jerusalem. A man descended
from liii;h lineage is standing beside Him
and says: "My father was a merchant
i nure. jr. had a castle on the beach at
iialilee. Who was your father?" Christ
answers, "j9-.e1.l1, the carpenter." A man
from Athens) is standing there unrolling his
T'arohnieiit ( if graduation andaysto Christ,
Where 1 1 I you iro to school?'? Christ n.n-
v;h -I nevergraduated." Aha! The idea
wsuuh an unheralded young man attempt
lug to command the attention of the world!
As well soUl Httiu nShing village on Long
Wand shore attempt to arraign New York,
let no so.-ner does He set His foot in the
toinis or eirrs of Judfea than everything is
lncommonon. The people go out en a pic
wo taking-only food enough for the day
J so fascinated, with Christ that, at
K, f, iiIvig, they follow Him out
intottie wihlerness, A noblemanfalls down
"""'Wll' 1 111 BTII envj 'ATr o. .!, 4.-,
J 1 1 J Acugiai.d is
A 'I'.'LMrtrif.a tn mh 1
ileal.
worn his eyes and says, "Lord, that my eyes
A poor, sick, panting
woman .r..siug through the crowd says,
i must tone)! the hem of His garment.'
i-miiirei,. wiU) iove thelr mother better
than any one else, struggle to get Into His
arms, and t kiss His cheek, and to tun their
t r?yIis hair, and for all time
''r,lh ' in love with the little ones
nat t ietl. ,s hardly a nursery in Christen-,
o m .fr,.m w hieh He does not take one, say
lnust ve them. I will 111 heaven
hHRv. 'iS'"'-MYor-every celar that I plant in
hnnr I ' 1 hilVe fl" Whit lllieS- I11 tQ6
wur wh,.,, Wlls.n poor mftn Jn Judea the
untsliarnedof Me, and now that I
themCo"u fV u throno 1 dJ not despise
mMhL ' ' ' " UOL Dac' oa
weeping
Of such
have put
Thou
Wh " ' 11 -heaven."
trim,,'!1. lM this (',l)iDg down the road? A
a I1 ! ,,,r' "'0SSii,Jn- He is seated, not in
piMak. "!! on an a9S-and yet the peo-
th u lr (oats at" "throw them in
am 0h- what a time Jesus made
pher v ll,urmen' among the phUoso-
if voir T - l ' ' 31 CODtrl, PUt
vm,r " rilin you wouia na
"art hr'"S irnnn'1 His neek and said,
Je" ively."
SHemi!S VVa" Wl,derful in the opposites and
ai r''1'lt;i",,,'ism3of Hi9 nature. You
pav ll!lt:s '"K"Hl and consistent, and you
the' 'd Christ bS God and man at
Cr,H ' ' """''"" John says Christ was the
andwiH Ml lbiDKswere made by Him,
Matthe was not anything made."
"Sh.,l tt""a.vs that He was omnipresent.
Mvi, .,. , " "r turee are met together in
Ph.; 1 " , h"n' am I in the mldsf of them."
Pha ' '"'! r- -His own eternity, "I am Al-
nn,i. ,. s.a. How can He be a lion.
lamh i - "'t '',ru9lling kingdoms, and yet
ht . '"X Ule "and that slays Him? At
touch' i le throne and the manger
Eevi.o , "Tlst WRS od, why nee into
Whv iV , ' not stand His ground?
up Hi' r- 11 "f beRring the cross, not lift
Whv ,if liand and crush His assassins?
oath,," a-"dhe spat upon? Why sleep
paltttvs f '. en ownea ine
M"uuyf vvny caicn nsn
st on the beach in the chill
Hi? an, all the pomegranates are
attl I, llK vineyards His and all tne
hvl.. V a"'1 "all the partridges His?
brulsp'j ! """ weary and His feet stone
J ia 1U1XUI UOTO ltK.e.U lllO
r? ' 't t he sunset for His eauloasre
Whvi itu horses and chariots of Are?
iMai cnallces of eternity He
-i.ui.hrates. thft Afisslssloni.and
""d dipping His hands in the
'K-aven and shaking that hand
- ei, irom tne tips of His lingers
great lakes and the ocean?
J'rnan rpirlmfint nut WIm tr
5?,rwn.'wlien i
BPlen..i,-
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the
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'i lie might have ridden down
1 wed by all the cavalry of
unted on white horses ol eternal
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Sir -Tou"
urnentt.
.'5r atjov
oa:,not understand. Who can?
on found me. I am confounded
peak. paui gaid was un
He went climbing up from
' argument and from antithesis
is and from glory to glory and
''own In exhaustion as he saw
"alM I 'i 1 otner heights of divinity un
B mh.hM 's:elalmed "that in all things
.A;. .'ae tne pre-eminence.
Whin'.. ri3t was "wonderful In His
used fKb". rne people" had been
Chrk . . ''-rmalltles and technicalities
Paiihir a11 thelr notions as to how
ist.H .,1?, r uht to done. There was
PeoMa irJ !arity about His preaching the
cknVf en tl0m the hen calling her
from :l;ugether. from salt, from candles,
collarfnf tackle, from a hard creditor
thk "5 a debtor. How few pulpits of
'ranr Would have aUowed Him en-
diui.iH,.. e would have been called un
I-r,i,,.. and famUlar In ' His style : of
PV$ned on 8la Oliret fifty
IhtiL never got an atidlenoe. The
-5he.2neere'1 at Hl3 ministrations
and said. "This will never do." The law-
n?Ja0at, bat th6 common people
i!5SiSigliljr 8oPPe you thaf there
W"an lefPL people in His audiences?
SEE?8! that any woman ever
m1" hread was Ignorant of what He
m- SllS?? ,He COIPared the kingdom of
lieaven with leaven or yeast? Suppose you
lt the Bun??rnt fishermen, with ns
Snhlt trn u their hands, . were listless
H Te Eke of the kingdom of heaven
as & net? We spend three years in college
studying ancient mythology, and three
years in the theological seminary learn
ing bow to make a sermon, and then we
go out to save the world, and If we can
not do it according to Claude's "Sermon
K0'1 Rhetoric." or Kames'
Criticism " we wiU let the world go
to perdition. If we i save nothing
i T!2 r ' 8av6 Claude ; and
Blair. We see a wreck In sight. We
must go out and save the crew and pas
sengers. We wait until we get on our fine
cap and coat and find our shining oars, and
. x.7eptlBh out methodically and
scientifically .while some plain shoresman,
in rough flshing smack and with broken
oar look goes out and gets the crew and
passengers ' and brings them ashore In
safety. We throw down our delicate oars
and say: ."What a ridiculous thing to save
men In that way! You ought to have done
it scientifically -and beautifully." "Ah "
says the shoresman, "if those sufferers had
waited until you got out : your fine boat
they would have gone to the bottom." -
Tne work of a religious teacher Is to
save men, and though ererv law of cram-
mar should be snapped In the undertaking;
and there be nothine but awkwardnwa and
blundering In the mode, all hail to the
man who saves a soul. I
Christ, in His preachine. was rdafn.
earnest and wonderfully sympathetic. We
cannot dragoon men into heaven. We
cannot drive them in with the butt end of a
catechism. We waste our time iu trying
to catch flies with acids I instead of the
sweet honeycomb of the eospel. Wr trv
to make crab apples do the work of pome
granates. I
Again Jesus was wonderful In His sor
rows. The sun smote Him and the cold
chilled Him, the rain pelted Him. thirst
parched Him and hunger exhausted Him.
Shall I compare His sorrow to the sea? No
ror that Is something hushed into a calm.
Shall I compare it with the nhrht? No. for
that sometimes gleams with Orion or kin
dles with Aurora. If one thorn should be
thrust through your temple you would
faint. But here is a whole crown made
from the rhamnus or spina Christ small,
sharp, stinging thorns. The mob make a
cross. They put down the long beam, and
on It they fasten a shorter beam. Got Him
at last. Those hands that have been doing
kindnesses and wiping away "tears hear
the hammer drlvmsr the spikes through
them. Those feet that have been going
about on ministrations of mercy battered
against the cross. Then they lift it up.
Look, look, look! Who will help Him now?
Come, men of Jerusalem ye whose dead
He brought to life, ye whose sick He healed
who will help Him? Who will seize the
weapons of the soldiers? iNone to help.
Having carried such a cross for us, shall we
refuse to take our cross for Him?
Shall Jesus bear the cross alone
And all the world go free? . 1 . , . '
No; there's a cross for every one.
And there's a cross for me.
You know the process of ingrafting. You
bore a hole into a tree and put in the '
branch of another tree. This tree of the
cross was hard and rough, but into the
holes where the nails went there had been
grafted branches of the tree of life that now
bear fruit for all nations, The original tree
was bitter, but the branches ingrafted were
sweet, and now all the nations pluck the
fruit and live forever. !
Again, Christ was wonderful in His vic
tories. 1
First, over the forces of nature. The sea
is a crystal sepulcher. It swallowed the
Central America, the President and the
Spanish Armada as easily as any fly that
ever floated on it. The inland lakes are
fullv as terrible -in their wrath. Galilee,
when aroused in a storm, is overwhelming.
and yet that sea crouched. In His presence
and licked His feet. He knew all the waves
and winds. When He beckoned, they came.
When He frowned, they fled. The heel of
His foot made no indentation on tne sonai
fled water. Medical science has wrought
great changes in rheumatlS limbs and dis
eased blood, but when muscles are ennreiy
withered no human power can1 restore
them, and when a limb is once dead it is
dead. But nere is a paraiyiic ma aaau.
lifeless. Christ says to him "Stretch forth
thy hand," and he stretches it forth.
In the eye infirmary now many diseases
of that delicate organ have been curea?
But Jesus says to one born blind, "Be
open," and the light of heaven rushes
through gates that have never before been
opened. The frost or an ax may kill a tree,
but Jesus smites one dead with a word.
Chemistry can do many wonderful tnings.
but what "chemist, at a wedding, when the
refreshment gave out, could-ehange a pail
of water into a cask of wine?
Behold His victory over the gravel ine
hinges of the family vault pecome very
rusty pecause tney are never peneu eiwpt
to take another in. There is a knob on the
outside of the sepulcher, but none on the
inside. Here comes the conqueror oi aeain.
He enters that realm and says, "Daughter
of Jairus, sit up," and she sat up. To Laz
arus. "Come forth, ana ne came ionn.
To the widow's son He said, "Get up from
that bier," and he goes home witn nis
mother.. ., Then Jesus snatched up the keys
of death and hung them to His giraie ana
cried until all the graveyards of the earth
heard Him: "Qh, death, I will be thy plaguel
Oh, grave, X will be thy destruction!"
But Christ s victories nave omyjus po-
mm 3 , TTI- TT ni 1. n
gUD. D1S worm unis, aim no uiusi ' "
it. What is the matter in this country?
Why all these financial troubles? There
never will be permanent prosperity In this
land until Christ rules It. This land was
discovered for Christ, and until our cities
shall be evangelized and north, south, east
and west shall acknowledge unrisi as aug
and Redeemer we cannot have permanent
prosperity. What is the matter with Spain,
with France, with all of the nations? All
the congresses of the nations Cannot bring
quiet. When governments not only
theoretically pus pratnuemj '"-,"
the Saviour of the world, there will be
peace everywhere. In that day the sea
will have more ships than now, but there
will not be one "man-of-war." The foun
dries of the world will Jar; with mightier
industries, but there will De no morning ot
bullets. Printing presses jwill fly their
cylinders with greater speed, but there
shall go forth no iniquitous trash.' In laws,
in constitutions, on exchange, in scientific
laboratory, on earth as in heaven, Christ
shall be called wonaenui. j-ki iu wwi-.
of the world's regeneration begin, in your
heart, oh, hearerl A Jesus so kind, a Jesus
so good, a Jesus so loving how can you;
help but love Him? . -
It is a beautiful moment when two per
sons who have pledged each other heart and
hand stand in church and have the banns of
marriage proclaimed. ainer am m.u,
brothers and sisters stand around the
altar. The minister of Jesus gives the
counsel, the ring Is set, earth and heaven
witness It, the organ sounds and amid
many congratulations they start out on
the path of life together. Oh, that this
Imlght be your marriage day! Stand up,
immortal soul. Thy beloved comes to get
His betrothed. Jesus stretches forth His
hand and says, "I will love thee with an
everlasting love," and you respond, "My
beloved is mine, and I am His." I put your
hand in His; henceforth be one. No trouble
shall part you, no time cool your love.
Side by side on earth, side by side in
heaven. Now let the blossoms of heavenly
gardens fill the house with their redolence
End all the organs of God peal forth the
iro- Trough of eternity.' Hark! "The
r,f my beloved. Behold He cometh
THE FIREMEtrS ASSOCIATION
Comparison of figures in this State
and Virginia on R. R. Taxation. .
TtTLK TOTHjC KLONDIKE FIELDS
OLD NORTH STATE CULLINGS.
Delegates to Farmers' National Con
gressThe Excellence of the Crops
Simply Wonderful, j H ! 1
The following delegates and racing
teams were represented at the State
Firemen's Association at Fayetleville
last week: Ashevillei' Charlotte, Con
cord, Salisbury, Greensboro, Durham,
Raleigh, Wilson, Newberne, Wilming
ton, Goldsboro . and Winston-Salem;
Columbia, Orangeburg, Sumter, Flor
ence, from South Carolina. - The offi
cers elected are: James D. McNeill, of
Fayetteville, president; J.' C. Nichols,
of Durham, secretary; Dr. J. W. Grif
fith, of Greensboro, and Parnell, vice
presidents; T. A. Green, of Newbern.
treasurer. ; 'l - i I s
The following is the result of the
races: In the engine contest the New
Berne steam tire engine's time was 3:41
1-2, Winston 3:49 1-2; Atlautics,1 of New
Berne, 4:031-4; Greensboro 5:123-4;
Wilmington 6:261-2. ! The first prize
was $60, second 830, third $20. 1 I
In the hand reel 150 yards dash Fay
etteville's time was 31 seconds, New
Berne 32, Greensboro 33, Durnam No.
2, 34, Salem 83 1-2, Salisbury 88 1-2,
Charlotte 33, Durham No. 1, 33. i
The grab reel race resulted, New
Berne, No. 1, 25 seconds, Durham, No.
1, 221-4; Atlantics 251-2, Fayetteville
231-4, South sides 231-4. !
In the long distance rapid steaming,
Wilmington and Winston made fine
Show. ' I - : -
In the long distance throwing water,
Winston won, 239 feet, 5 inches. The
Greensboro Juniors defeated the Fay
etteville Juniors. The championship
hand reel race was won by the Atlantics,
of Newbern; the horse ..wagon contest
was won by the Greensboro team; the
horse hook and ladder race was won by
Winston; the hand hook and ladder
contest was won by Greensboro. i ;
The next place of meeting is at
Greens"boro. I I !
Charlotte didn't get the tournament,
but she got the promise of the Fayette
ville boys, along with others, to go
there the next 20th of May. . f : i ;
Muoh has been said recently as to the
taxation of railway property in Vir
ginia and North Carolina. The follow
ing are the facts as to such taxation.
The total value of railways in Virginia, "
including property outside of right-of-way,
as well as street cars, assessed for
taxation, is $53,389,540. That in North
Carolina, not including street cars and
property outside r of right-of-way, 1 is
$29,000,000. The gross earnings f In
Virginia are $50,000,000; in North Car
olina $9,846,000. The net earnings in
Virginia are $12,151,000; in North Caro
lina $3,257,000. So the taxation in Vir
ginia, instead of being one and a half
times greater than in North Carolina,
should have been in round numbers
four times as much. Governor Russell
says railway property should be listed
for taxation at a sum upon which it
pays 6 per cent, upon net earnings. By
this Virginia would have a valuation of
$200,000,000 and North Carolina $50,
000,000. Virginia, besides, pays 1 per
cent, on net income, deducting inter
est on funded debt and taxes, and this
amount to olly $3,000.! With a similar
tax North Carolina ! could i collect
nothing Bave si small sum from the Atl
antic Coast Line. Charlotte Observer.
No Valid Objection Can be Advanced
to Oreat Britain's Claim.
Incited by the newspaper publica
tions recently, fending to throw doubt
upon 'the ownership of the Klondike
gold fields, sox -e of the high govern
ment officials who would naturally be
expected to deal with the question if it
comes to a practical issue, have been
quietly looking into the .matter with a
view to preparing themselves for any
controversy that may arise. Their
views are in substance that there can
be no valid objection advanced to the
title of Great Britain to this territory.
A careful examination of all the reli
able charts and maps made far
enough back in date to be free from
suspicion of influence of the recent
heavy gold finds, has convinced the
officials that so far as the Klondike
fields, as defined by the latest report
are concerned, there can be no questiW
but that they lie east of the one hut
dred and forty-first meridian, which
defines the boundary line, and so are
within British territory by about thirty
five miles at least. Asfot the meridian
itself, it is- said that it has, been so
closely located by the survey of the Ca
nadians and our own coast survey, that
there is not a( any point a difference
of more than 700 feet in the claimed
boundary, which, of course, would not
substantially effect any controversy that
might grow out of the title.
A VOLCANO IN ERUPTION.
The commissioner of agriculture says
all the crop returns which oome in are
remarkably favorable. In fact the ex
cellence of the crops is simply wonder
ful. The returns; for August are rapid
ly arriving from correspondents. Norn?
of these put cotton below 100 per cent,
and some put it as high as 120, compar
ed with average years. There is a large
increase in acreage. The report as to
corn is the best ever received t by
the department. It is a remark that
1897 may well be termed "a year of
plenty." .- i j
Governor -Russell appoints the fol
lowing delegates from North Carolina
to the Farmers National Congress for
the next two years: State at large, J.
S. Cunningham and Wm. Dunn; First
district, John Brady; i Second district,
M. fi. Wood; Third district, J. A.
Westbrook; Fourth district, k Ransom
H in ton; Fifth district, -Benehan Cam
eron; Sixth district,! Nick Gibbons;
Seventh district, S.t A. Lawrence,
Eighth district, J. K? Byers; Ninth
district, W. G.' Candler. ... j .
Up to the 5th the Charlotte Observer
says: Of all the counties in the State
from which returns have been sent to
the Auditor and to the State board of
equalization, Gaston leads, so far as in
crease in values is concerned. The in
crease in the value of property in that
county is $315,811 over 1896 and $415,
941 over 1895. . I j I
Five Hundred People Known to Have
Perished and lf Towns Destroyed.
A special to the Chicago Chronicle
from Tacoma, Wash., says; Five hun
dred reported killed up to July 1st is
the record of the terrible outbreak of
the great volcano Mayon, on the island
of Luzon, one of the Phillipine group.
On the night of June 24 this volcano
began throwing up aflhes and lava in
immense quantities, and the flames
were thrown upward considerably over
100 feet above the crater. The next
day 65 bodies were recovered at a con
siderable distance, and the most recent
dispatches to Hong Kong up to July
8th stated that not less than 500 were
known to have been killed.
It is probable, said the dispatches,
that the loss of lifw will reach into the
thousands, depending on the length of
eruption. On that date lava streams
and ashes had "reached the cities of
Bacacay, Malipot and Liberi, and their
destruction was certain. Fifteen small
er towns between these and the volcano
had been destroyed, and- scores of
the ! agricultural population had been
overwhelmed while attempting . to es
cape. - -
TILLMAN AT ABBE V1L.L.E.
I NEWS ITEMS.
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Southern Pencil Pointers. '
' The smallpox situation in Birming
ham, Ala., is very much improved.
t M. A. Connelly, of Savannah. Ga.,
has been chosen as secretary of the
Nicauraguan Canal Commission.
Alfred K. Hoi ton has been appointed
United States attorney for the Western
district of North Carolina.
I A gentleman who has been dead two'
months has been appointed postmaster
at Wahoo, Sullivan county, Tennessee.
' During a erame of ball at Enfanla,
Ala., Bose Faulkner struck Cal Taylor
on the head with a stick and death re
sulted. Faulkner escaped.
; The Charlotte Observer says the prop
osition to move the court house site
from Dallas to Gastonia, N. C, has
failed. A majority of those who voted
were in favor of removal, but a majority
of the registered voters did not go to
the polls. - -
i The Rome, Ga., cotton factory has
obtained a government order for 1,300,
000 yards of heavy duck for mail sacks.
The amount of the contract is $"250,000.
The mill has . been forced to purchase
new machinery and employ a large
number of hands at good wages.
; The erection of a twenty-ton cottou
seed oil mill will be commenced at La
vonia, Ga., at once.
It is believed that the plan to utilize
the water power of the James, at Rich
mond, for a great electric plant, will
succeed.
T '
: The old Talbot machine shops, at
Richmond, Va. , have passed away after
fifty years of life. The depression of
the times did it -
Worried by business troubles,
wealthy Samuel Blair, of Chattanooga.
Tenn., cut his throat and died in his
bath tub. .
i J. H. Milam, of the Seaboard Air
Line at Charlotte, has mysteriously dis
appeared. His shortage foots up to
$1,444.44. .
A sheriff's posse in Coffee county,
Ala. , kilted All ven Lightfoot and badly,
injured his son Joe, in attempting to
arrest mem ior general crimes.
He Defends the Dispensary and Tells
Some Great Things About Him
self. .. .
Senator Tillman spoke to the farmers
institute at Abbeville, S. C, delivering
the first speech he has made in the State
since the opening of the present sena
torial campaign. He defended the dis
pensary law, and declared that the
troubles it had been involved in were
due not to the law itself, but to its un
wise administration. He endorsed the
tariff views of Senator MoLaurin, and
said that while he himself was not a pro
tectionist, if there was any stealing go
ing on, he wanted his State to have its
snare. He told his hearers that he was
the only farmer in the Senate, and that
he therefore represented -80,000,000
farmers of the United States. He de
clared that his speeches were as popular
in the Senate as at home, and told how,
when he arose to speak, the cloak rooms
always emptied and the galleries filled.
GOVERNMENT JOBS.
Civil Service Examinations to Be Held
September 22.
Civil service examinations will be
held in Columbia, S. C, on September
22 for the following positions under the
government service: Bookbinder, clerk
of,. the departmental service, composi
tor, electrotyper (of all kinds), elevator
conductor, janitor, messenger, press
man, railway mail clerk, skilled laborer
(male or female), stenographer, stereo
typer, stock examiner, tagger, type
writer, watchman. One wishing to
stand the examination san select any
one of the above callings to be exam
ined upon. All applications must be
on file in the office of -the Civil Service
Commissioner, Washington, at least
ten days before the examination is held.
Examinations will be held in Charles
ton on the 24th of September and the
25th of October.
ATLANTA OPERATIVES STRIKE.
For the first time in three years the
Cabarrus jail is clear of prisoners. An
other incident attending the term of
court just concluded is the faot that not
a whiskey case was tried during the
term something that has greatly sur
prised even the public, to say nothing
of the lawyers. Charlotte Observer.
i "...
Durham paid $80,000 internal rev
enue tax for the month of July, the
sales being: Tobacco, $25,203.90;
cigarettes, $13, 955. 00 ; cigars, $957. 45 ;
snuff, $285.00. Total, $40,401.35. Ex
ports were: Cigarettes, CI, 802,500; ! to
bacco, 1,650 pounds. it
The railroad commission reduces the
tax valuation $500 per mile on the fol
lowing railways: Georgia, .Carolina
and Northern: Western North Carolina,
between Round Knob and Paint Rock,
and the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line,
thus making the valuations, respective
ly. $9,000, $3,500 and. $11,000 per
mile.
Martin Roberts, of Reidsville,has been
convicted of the seduction of Georgia
Willis, a pretty nineteen-year-old girl.
He was sentenced to twelve mouth i
Negro Women Were Employed and
All the Other Hands Quit.
. As a result of the employment oi
twenty-five negro women in the folding
department of the Fulton Bag and Cot
ton Mills, Atlanta, Ga. , 1,400 men,
women and children have gone out on
one of the largest strikes that has ever
occurred in that city. The wills were
forced to shut down their entire plant,
and it will eflect fully 2,000 people oi
the working classes. When the notice
was pn,t up that the mills were closed
much disorder broke out, and it was
the inclination of the strikers at first to
cause trouble, but the police reserve
force arrived in time to quell any dis
turbance. Iowa Colony in Alabama.
A number of Iowa families have se
cured a concession of 6,000 acres of land
in Shelby county, Ala.. 30 miles south
of Birmingham. The tract is to be laid
out on the colony plan, but each colon
ist will own his own property.
Business Men aa Swindlers.
Three prominent business men of
Pittsburg, Pa. , have been arrested and
bound over to the October term of court,
charged with conspiracy to defraud the
National Loan k Investing Company,
of Detroit, one of the largest concerns
of its kind in the country. The ease
promises to be a sensational one, owing
to the prominence of the acoused, and
the amount claimed to bave been secured
by them, which is said to be in th
neighborhood of S200.0Q0.
PESSIMISTS GROWING WEARY
111
Gratifying Reports of Business Im
provement by Dun & Co.
- -' . . r v j
THE DAWN OF BETTER DAYS.
Fewer Failure the Past Week Than
In Any Week Since the Year
1892. '
All About the North.
' A rain storm at Colorado City,
flooded the streets six i aches.
Col.,
i An association composed of buyers"
for commercial houses in the various
cities has been formed in New York.
j Cincinnati, O., is the centre of a great
new combine of manufacturers of wood
working machinery.
! The World says . that 2,500 babies
have been abandoned by their mothers
in New York within the rast year.
i. The National Democratic Association
of Colored Men is called to meet in
convention Columbus, 0.,on Sept. 23d.
All, the gas companies of Chicago,
have consolidated. The capital stock
is raised from $400,000 to $25,000,000.
. Stephen M. rCarty, who put up the
flrnt telephone used in Cuba, died at
New Haven, Conn., from heart failure
caused by excessive smoking.
! At St Louis cotton is said to be
cornered and it is likely to remain so
until September 1st, when the official
cotton yeai opens, and the new crop
begins to move. The statements of
the local warehouses show that the
total number of bales in storage aggre
gate 9,682 bales.
A gang of gold brick swindlers have
come to grief in New York.
i At Slgourney, la., four girls were
drowned in Skunk river. They were
caught in the current while wading-.
i Chas. A Dana, the nestor of Ameri
can journalists, owner and edkor of the
New York Sun, is seriously ill.
' It is reported that Senator Gorman,
of Maryland, will not be a candidate for
reelection at the end of his present term.
Senator Gorman will have served 24
years.
i Many of the principal life- and acci
dent insurance companies of Chicago
are refusing to assume risks upon the
lives of persons contemplating a visit to
the Klondyke. " -
1 The gold brick swindle was worked
on a New Orleans saloon keeper for
$7,000 by members of a eranrr who have
I operated extensively in South American
tinea om imti luwiis or mis country.
The men were arrested iu New York.
I At Hudson, Mass., an attempt was
made to blow up a section of the tene
ment house owned by the L, D. Appley
Rubber Company,.in which several of
the workmen employed at the factory
in the place of the striking help have
been boarding.
Miscellaneous. .
- American whalers this season have
realized $702,449.
! Within eighteen months famine and
pestilence have killed 8,900,000 people
in India. .
' Most Kansas rodnties pay a bounty
on wolves killed, and Michigan pavs for
dead sparrows.
Mr. Moody announces that he has no
idea of retiring from his evangelistic
work.
5 An explosion in the cartridge factory
of Rustchuk, on the Danube, killed
fifty-six people outright.
! Arrangements are being made for the
establishment of a mail route to the
Klondyke region.
i The highbinders in San Francisco,
Cal., have posted a list of Chinese who
they will murder.
New York is still talking of a World's
Fair in 1900 to commemorate the consol
idation of the various cities which are
comprised in Greater New York.
I From 12,000 to 15,000 natives are now
under arms in revolt against the British
in India, and the rebellion is still
spreading.
Missouri has raised the taxable valu
ation of her railroads and telegraphs by
over $3,000,000 and will add $750,000 to
her revenne next year.
i Representatives of Peter Maher and
Tom Sharkey have posted a second
deposit of $2,500 of the $10,000 for a
fight between the pugilists. They will
probably fight in San Francisco during
October,
The weekly trade review of Messrs.
R. G. Dun & Co., for the week ending
August 7th, says: Four years ago,
August 5th, 1893, the first of Dun's re
views was issued, with failures in that
month amounting to over $60,000,000,
while in the month just closed failures
have been only $7,117,727, the smallest
in any month since 1892. The state
ment of failures by classes of business
for July and for forty-six months shows
that in manufacturing failures have
been smaller than in any other month
in the entire period, in trading smaller
than in any month except one, and in
many branches of manufacture smaller
than in most months of which records
exist.
The pessimists who pronounced re
ports of gain fictitious and misrepre
senting have grown- weary of their dis
mal predictions and begin to see the
dawn of better days. Last month was
the first for four years of -which the
volume of business reported by clear
ing houses was larger than in the same
month of 189.!, and the telegraphic dis
patches from all parts of the country
(given this week show gratifying im
provement. 1 his is probably due to
a larger yield of wheat and good
prices, though the crop is probably not
as large nor are prices thus far as high
as in 1892; but of cotton the price is
higher and the yield probably larger
than in that 3 ear. Other farm products
are realizing good prices, and the.ios
sible decrease in yielri of corn may help
to market the enormous surplus
brought , over from last year.
Liquidation of -a powerful com-",
bination in wheat broke and
wheat advanced 3 cents on Tuesday,
a gain of 1 1-2 cents for the week. It
is the wrong season to : exject much
from industries and yet there has
been material increase in the number
of hands employed in the iron manu
facture because of the satisfactory ad
justment of wages dispute with the
Amalgamated Association and the open
ing of numerous establishments which
have been waiting, while the coal min
ers' strikes seem each day more likely
to end in a. permanent settlement bene
ficial to both part it. 1. - Meanwhile the
demand for most finished products is
steadily increasing, the -feature this
week being large pipe contracts for
Russian oil fields, Sumatra and Ger
many. - .
The 'sales of wool, as comparative
returns by months show, bear little re
lation to the actual consumption in
manufacture, but heavv liquidation
since the new tar iff. bill was enacted
gives the impression that some dealers
are no longer confident of a speedy ad
vance. Nevertheless, prices have risen
during the past few weeks nearly one
cent per pound. Manufacturers are buy
ing but little, though they are rapidly
increasing the output and are able to
report an advance of 10 per cent in
prices of goods, with rapidly increasing
orders. .
The temporary curtailment of output
by cotton mills continues, but does not
yet bring improved prices for products,
although the demand is generally gain
ing. .
Failures of the week have been 237 in
the United States, against 240 last year,
and 29 in Canada, against 82 last year.
WESTERN UNION" APPEALS.
Southorn" tlaijuoy;
FIRST A3iD SECOND DIVISIONS.
' In effect May 2, 1897.
This Condensed Bohedol H published as
Informatloo only and U subject to ahaas
without notloe to the publla.
&ICHMOXJ TO CHAJLLrOTTZ. ;
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Resists the Reduction. In Telegram
Rates Made by the N. C. R. R. Com
mission. The Western Union' Telegraph Com
pany has appealed from the order of
the railroad commission . making 15
cents the rate for a ten-word day mes
sage. The company contends' that the
rate is not just and reasonable and that
it would force the company to operate
at a loss; also that a commission has
no power to make the rates for tele
crrams. .
The company alleges that at $5 cental
it has operated riorth Carolina busi
ness at a lost. It files a prayer for re
moval of the, case to the United States
Court for the eastern district of North
Carolina. 'The prayer alleges that the
commission's order, violates the fifth
amendment to the United States con
stitution in that the enforcement of said
rate would be taking the company's
property for public use without just
compensation; that it violates section 1
of the fourteenth amendment to the
constitution; that it violates section 8
of article 1 of the constitution, and also
violates the United States act of I860 to
aid in the construction of telegraph
lines." The prayer further sets forth
that the company is of New York ani
not a citizen or resident of North Caro
lina. John Vanllorne, vice-president,
signs this prayer.
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The Tennessee Election.
A general election was held in this
Stateon the loth to decide whether or
not a constitutional convention shall
be held. Returns show that the calling
of a convention has been overwhelm
ingly defeated. A light vote was pol
led, "but little interest being ' shown,
smd in some voting districts the polls
were not opened. In Nashville, with a
voting population of 15,000, the total
vote cast was less than 1,000.
Freight Kates on Cotton.
The Georgia State Railroad Commis
sion has refused the petition of W. II.
Brewer, of Griflin, and D. G. Purdue,
of Savannah, representing the freight
and transportation bureau of that city,
and others, for a horizontal reduction
of per cont in freight rates on cot
ton. sa m
The Bimetallic Commission.
The British government has informed
the American bimetal lie commission
that they will probably reply to the
proposals of the commissioners on be
half of tht UaltyUinjOctoUr.
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tin. S7 and M, Wukinrm and South wmtmm
Limit'!. SuUd Vestlbntod train brlirwt ew York
ad Atlanta. Coaipuwl of Foliauui Uri'lu Boon
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uoa at SaJiatMtry with AorfoJr and Ca
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phutum ana iutmumm r..iMii,M v .
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- i. -rmas and fcoatfcara ractfis Itallway,
wtttumi chmrt "sot a Lcavl.g Waatuaauai
baturdara. rrlrn aaa frtMlno Tbaradaa.
ftta. 11 aud 14. orf aad CLattaaooya I 1
Brtwera Norfolk aajd 1 aattaaooaw. iarafk li.ima,
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Bpclajca and JtaoxriJla. ruilmaa Pralaf AVouos
il4ac Cars brtrwg kcrfot aad Saah'la.
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potata. For rata or laformauoa apvlr to aar
W. H. uuii, UBral Snprtardat.
W. A. Tea. GraeraJ Paan Atfrr irtt
i. X. Cnr, Traffic kLaaacar, IMU fa. iva., Waaav
nwtaa.I.C. UwrfcUcai iwi) .
Bencfleial. .
Again the statement U repeated that
yawning, besides beiag a healthy func
tion generally, has a very salutary f
fet In complaints of the pharynx anil
EcMachlan tubes. According to the
results of Lite Investigations, yawcltur
Is the most natural form of respiratory
exercise, bringing Into action all
the respiratory merries of the
chest and neck.. It is recom
mended that every person hft.
bave a goon yawn, witn wtrctchhf, of
the limbs, morning and evening, for tbe
purpose of ventilating the lung and
tonifylng the muscles of respiration.
Throat and ear troubles are senaibly
relieved by this form of gymnastic?.
Bfc&i- u.r- Ana
Vet thn nnnnln wnnt
to
lear ? n g n rca the mountains, skipping upon
jail. . - ---- 1--T-
Xho old Jewish ra'is mlht
the L.i..c ' . . -