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SOUl HERN RAILWAY.
Condensed Schedule of Passanffer Train
In Effect June 11th, 1399.
Yes.
No. 38
Daily.
No. 18
Fst.Ml
No. 26
Daily.
Northbound.
No.12
Daily
Ex,
Sun,
Lv. Atlanta, C. T.
" Atlanta, E.T.
M Jsorcrosa
" Buford
" Gainesville...
7 60 a
8 5J a
0 SO a
1005 a
12 00 m
4 85p
11 50
12 0
1 SO
'2 23"
2 50
1 W p
a iiup
6 2Sp
7 GSp
10 35
7 48p
8 lop
Lula
" Cornelia
10 58 a
2 42
3 00
i' is'
5 23
0 13
G 4(5
7 02
8 is'
11125 a
sap
8 40t
Ar. Mt. Airy
Lv. Toccoa
" Westminster
" Seneca
" Central
Greenville . . .
" Spartanburg.
Galfneys
Blacksburg . .
" King's Mt....
" Gastonia
Lv. Charlotte....
113J a
11 53 a
123tm
12 52 p
1 40 D
9 05 p
3 43
4 20
4 37
5 03
5 50
6 45
7 25
7 43
8 05
8 23
9 25
12 06
2 Hi p
3 37 p
4 20 p
4 88 p
503 p
5 25 p;
6 30 p
Jt . Greensboro .
0 53 p lu 47
p:--
Lv . Greensboro. .
Ar . Norfolk. . . .
aim
team MM
Ill 43 p
8 20 a
11 25 p;ll 5G p
600 a 6 00 a
6 42 a'...,...
8 00 a!..
10 15 a
12 43 ml
Ar. Daaville
Ar. Richmond . . .
Ar.WasMnrton. .
1
0 25 p
9 05 p
11 25 p
till
J23
" Baltm'ePRK.
" Philadelphia.
New York . . .
tst..Ulj Vc-s. No.ll
Sonthbound. INo. 85 No. 37 Daily
iPailv. Dally. "
L.V. N. Y.,P.R.li. 1 16 a 4 iso p
" Philadelphia . 850 a 6 55 p
" Baltimore 5 22 a 9 20 p
" Washington. . 11 15 a 10 45 p
Lv. RichinondTT. 12 Olnn 11 00 p 1100 p
Lv. Danville 6 03 p 5 50 a 610 a
Lv. Norfolk . 8 35 p
Ar. Greensboro o 15 a
a 7 37 a
a 12 05m
a 112p
.. 133p
a 203 p
a 2 24 p
a 3 15 p
p 4 30 p
.. 5 33 p
p 5 45 p
.. 600 p
p 6 30 p
.. 7 12p
p 7 1Sp
p 7 38 p
p 8 23 p
.. 8 40 p
.. 915p
p'lOOO p
p! 9 00 p
AT. Charlotte
Lv. Gastonia
" King's Mt....
" Blccksburg..
" Gaffneys
Spartanburg .
. Green vill e .. . .
" Central
" Seneca
Westminster.
" Toccoa
Mt. Airy .....
" Corneha
" Lula
" Gainesville. .
" Buford
Noi'cross
Ar. Atlanta, 13. T.
Ar. Atlanta, (J. T.
10 00 pi 9 25
10 49 p;10 07
11 31
11 43
P 10 45
p!l0 58
all Si
a;i2 30
il2 2ti
1 25
223"
3"i7"
4 03"
4 30
4 .ri
5 25
6 10
5 10
SX7.
Ex.
San.
1 33
2'is"
b 05 a
('30 a
6 35 a
657 a
7 20 a
7 48 a
8 27 a
030 a
830 a
3 00
3 37
55
"A" a. in. -P" p. m. "M" noon. "N" eight.
Chesapeake Line Steamers in laily service
between Korfolk and Eammore.
Nos. 3r and 38 Daily. Washin gton and Soutb
western Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman
eleepiufi enrs between Kew York and New Or-
m:ms, via w asiunirtcn. Atlantn. anrl Hfrmttrnm
and also between New York and Memohis,
A t.; . Vi, ,: ,V" .r'""".'"1"' !
v. f . iiiuisiuu,fti lama ana MrminKliam. Alsa
,?J-IjM-A3N' LiBSAKY OBSJEBVA
riON CARb Detweon Atlanta and New York.
Firstelass thorongrhlare coaches between Wash
ington and Atianta. UininEr cars sarveall mprvl.
tn route. Pull man dra wine-room sMniTnp-r
between Greensboro n.Dd Norfo'.Ir. ninan nan
ecuon aiiNoriom loruiiD ifULN T COitFOKT.
Mail
s solid tietween Washington and New Or-
vii duuniura Avmiway, a. vv. r". Jtt. 4.
k k. it., Demj composed of uaggaga
I coaches, through without chanse for
of all classes. Pullman drawing
room
New 1
epmg cars between New York and
between
tans, vi Atlanta an d Montgomery and
Pullman
between
uiriutie ana oirminjnam. . Also
jawing Room Buffet Sleeping Cars
Washington
una Asaevme, in . u. Leavuitf
ionrist sleenin?
xuesaay ana iTiaay, a
will run through between
Washingtoa and
Dining cars serve a,
Nos. 11.33. 34 anc
i i- tnyzizfj vvunuai onange.
mtiis enroute.
fcetween Bichniondanfi
-Pullman sJeeotng cart
eouthwrnnd Nos. 11
.nanorie, vi i uanville,
. 3J, northbound Nost
SA and 13
rtiiwira fi- A MKflY
SSvvp" 4e . nr-r.. X J. M. crjLP.
Washington, D. C. Nk-J"rlJ?c M'e'5;
"V7 A TUEK. S. H.HJfyashington, D.
G en'l Pass. Ag't . , Ass t vOWvv xui..
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BRITISH SUFFER AGAIN.
A Considerable Forc3 Ambushed Near
Escourt While Reconnoitring.
DISASTER TO AN ARMORED TRAIN.
Many British Soldiers Were Taken Pris
oners by the Boers Lieutenant
Churchill Distinguishes Himself
Boers Preparing to Resist the Rein
forcements For General White.
London (By Cable). The "War Office has
received the following dispatch from Gen
eral Buller date! at Cape Town:
"Have received from Hildyard, Pieter
maritzburg, a telegram of which the fol
lowing is the purport:
"The officer commanding the troops at
Estcourt reports at midday that an ar
mored train left Estcourt this morning
with a company of the Dublin Fusiliers and
a company of the Durban volunteers.
North of Frere they encountered a party of
Boers and began to withdraw. While re
tiring some of the trucks were derailed.
The Dublius turned out and advanced to
ward the enemy, while the reat of the train
appears to have returned without them to
Estcourt."
It appears that the Boers had prepared
a clever little trap and the British train
seems to have been run with guileless ia
nocence. After they had fallen into the
trap the personal bravery of the party on
the train was useless in the face of the ex
cellent fire of the Boers, who were abl'j to
send to Fretoria another batch of pris
oners variously estimated at from llfty to
one hundred,
Winston Churchill, son of Lady Randolph
TYPE OF ARMORED TRAIN USP
ARMORED TRAIN'
Churchill, and correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail, behaved with great gal
lantry in carrying the wounded off the
field under a heavy lire. He was taken
prisoner.
A special dispatch from Durban says that
another complete armored train has been
sent to Estcourt to replace the one dis
abled by the Boers.
The serious and unexpected disaster to
the Estcourt armored train, on the eve of
the forward movement for the relief of
Ladysmith, has, apparently, convinced the
British that the advance will be contested
step by step. General Hildyard has a force
of about 15,000 men and he is well supplied
with guns.
Iu view of the Boer destruction of bridges
the War Office ha's issued orders for the
shipment of a quantity of brid.re work be
tween this and the end of the year.
A dispatch from Lorenzo Marques says:
"A Pretoria newspaper anuounced that
four thousand burghers had loft General
nnmmnnAnnl. nntu,a i. -rf '
T 1 . A ' - . - I T 1 - 1 i - .
with a view of assisting to intercept the
British advance to the relief of L-idysmkh.
"General Lucas Meyer, the Free State
commander, has assarted in the course ot
an interview, that hi is convinced that the
battie of Elandslaagte will be the first and
last Boer defeat of the war."
There are trustworthy reports of mys
terious movements of Free State com
manders aloug the Orange River, and im
portant developments are expected.
Everything tends to show that tberelief of
Kimberley could only be safely undertaken
by a strong column.
HOLLAND BOAT SUCCESSFUL.
I The Board of Inspection Keiort3 That She
i Fulfilled All Kequireineuts.
! Washington, D. C. (Special). The report
j of the Board of Inspection and Survey on
the recent official tost of the submarine
! boat Holland in reconie Bay November G,
j has been given out by the Secretary of the
Navy. The Board reports that nil of the
! requirements of the Department were ful
! filled by the performance of the Holland
ou this trial.
r tji" - -yj-.-&?v--:-:.vsvA.v a,-A -
HOLLAND BOAT SUfijIEHGEl).
Chief Engineer John Lowe, U. S. N.; was
specially ordered to witness and report
upon all the preliminary trials of the Hol
land, and the final ofucial test. His report
has also been given out by the Secretary.
Engineer Lowe says:
ISTEKIOU or HOLLAND BOAT.
"I report my belief, after fnll examina
tions, that the Holland i3 a successful and
veritable submarine torpedo boat, capable
of making n veritable attack unon tho
enemy unseen and undetectable, a'nd that,
therefore, she is an engine of warfare of
terrible potency which the Government
must necessarily ado.ot into its service."
1
Anniversary of Brazilian Republic.
Brazil has just celebrated the tenth an
niversary of the proclamation of the re
public. There was a military parade and
a nuval review at lito de Janeiro; the Presi
dent, Dr. Campos Salles, held a reception
of the Diplomatic Corps, and Ministers,
etc., and in tho evening tht.r mnrA k-
: and other nubile Knta.ii,.
Drought in New Orleans.
New Orleans is now suffering from the
worst drought it has ever known. Droughts
have prevailed thero for seveu years in suc
cession, uuc tne present is iar more serious
Kthan its predecessors.
Cyclins: Notes.
One of every fltty persons in the United
State3 rides tho wheel.
The Transvaal campaign is the
which bicycles have been used by
first in
British
regulars.
Most remarkable of the season's features
is tha increase in tho number of juvenile
wheels in use.
The old policy of storing the bicycle away
for tae winter months appears to have be
come almost obsolete.
. A strange fact is that wherj tho bicycle
has become popular there has beaa a no
ticeable decrease lu crime.
Eddie McDume, tha Boston flyer, broke
the world's record for halt u mile by one
and one-llfth seconds in Chicago,
NAVAL OFFICER'S BRAVERY
Over One Hundred Persons Owe Their
Lives to Ensign Gherardi.
Flanged to the Kescue in Porto Rico
Unrricane, and 3fow ties iu
u Hospital as a Result.
Washington, D. O. (Special) .The Navy
Department has given out circumstan
tial account of the conspicuous gallantry
of Ensign W. B. Gherardi, in the recent
terrific hurricane which swept across Porto
Rico. It was forwarded by Captain Snow,
commanding the United States naval sta
tion in Sau Juan, who inclosed letters of
Lieutenant-Colonel Carr of the Fifth Cav
alry and others concerning the daring of
the exploit.
Captain Snow also called attention to the
fact that the ensign now was in the Naval
Hospital in New York, as a result of th'.
exposure and hardship undergone at that
time. Ensign Guerardi twice before has
been mentioned for conspicuous gallantry.
The statement forwarded to the depart
ment shows that, when the storm was at
its height, Ensign Gheryrdl and J. J. Jim
inez, a civil engineer, ran along the beach
to the point nearest the shipping, which
was dragging anchors through the errific
force of the wind. The schooner Concep
tion, loaded with-l5'J emigrants from Sau
Domingo, and the sceatner Vasco were in
great distress. Some of the passengers
were jumping overboard. The statement
goes on as follows:
"Gherardi at once plunged into the
water with his clothes ou and began drag
ging the unfortunates from the waves and
brlngiug them .to the shore. He ordered
those on board to throw a life line to the
shore, so as to make fast, but they were so
terrorized that they were unable to do
anything but jumn into the water, where
they were taken by Gherardi and Jiminez
IX THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.
INTERIOR OF
ARMORED TRAIN
and brought to shore. There were from
four to six people (women .and children)
who did not dare to jump into the water.
They were told to do so, but remained
where they were and were undoubtedly
lost, as the schooner soon went to pieces.
'Those rescued numbered nearly 150
souls. The steamer Vasco was then bat
tling with the waves, a few hundred yards
off. Gherardi called for a life line, aud,
forming a jKirty of rescuers in a line joiuing
hands extending out iuto the water, him
self at the head, he soon had hold of the
line, and, bringing it to the shore, fastened
the end securely to a neighboring tree.
"The crew climbed down and along the
line and were safely landed."
Ensign Gherardi is a sou of Rear-Admiral
Gherardi, retired.
LAKE SHORE i EXPRESS R03BERY.
Five 3Ien llreak'Open a Sealed Car Be
longing: to the United States Company.
Enuz, Penn. (Special). -Five men en
tered a United States Express car attached
to the Lake Shore Railroad train between
Cleveland and Erie. The car was ran
sacked and nearly every package opened
and the contents scattered broadcast.
The express officials refuse to discuss the
loss, which is placed at 815,000. The men
signalled the engineer and left the train at
Dock Junction, near the city limits, and
have not been caught. .
A number of sealskin cloaks were.part of
the plunder. The robbers are pses'umed to
have jumped the car platform at a station
betweeu Cleveland and Erie; where a stop
is made. They broke in the door of the car
with a brake. Railroad' men hero think
the robbers were not' tramps, because of
the cure used in exaniing packages.
PANAMA KNOCKING AT OUR DOOR
The Isthmian .State Wants to lie Annexed
to the United States.
Washington, D. C. (Special). An appli
cation for annexation to tho United States
has been made to this Government by the
Stato of Panama, one of the political sub
divisions of the United States of Colombia.
Tae Stato of Panama has refused to re
cognize the authority of the Colombian
Government,- and there has been much
internal trouble on that account. So
far, however, the Stato has not been abbi
to establish au independent government,
and asit has no sovereign rights the United
States cannot regard th application.
Lynched a AVliite 31 an.
Yilliam Huff, a white mau ia jail at
Bloom Held, Mo., charsrod with the murder
of Andrew'Moiton, was lynched a few days
at;o. A mob of 10!) men gathered at the
jail, broke the doors in with sledge ham
mers, took Huff from his cell and handed
him, riddling his body with bullets as it
swung from the limb of a tree.
football Flayer Killed.
John Allen, of Marion Mass., the medical
student injured while playing football on
the Christian Brothers' College eleven,
died at St. Louis, Mo. Ha never regained
cousciusness after receiving his injuries.
JIateor Ilores llolo in Iowa.
A large meteor fell in the woods just east
of Webster City. I-v,va. It made a hole
about IIvj tea: squata and was still seeth
ing and steaming so that its fud size could
not be determined. People in, the vicinity
say it made a loud roaring noise when de
scending. Tiie 1'al.ria l'.itrueil t Sea.
TLo Hamburg-American liner Patria a
few days ago was discovered to be burn
ing. Hno was then off the Njrih Hinder
Lightship, in the English Ciiaunel. Th
passengers were called on deck and were
taken off by the Russian steamship Ceres
and landed at Dover.
Koor-British War Notes. t
The British wounded at Cape Town are
doing well.
The British claim to have saved all thein.
stores when Colenso was evacuated.
The military authorities at Durbau have
seized 500 tons of foodstuffs consigned to
the Transvaal.
Emperor William lias given orders that
no Prussian officer will be allowed leave to
light for the Boers.
The Dublin Fusiliers have been served
with new kits, as they lost everything in
the retreat from Dundee.
Dr. Leyds, the Transvaal's agent in Eu
rope, denies the report that Catholics are
not allowed to hold ofiieo under the republic.
- - .
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Wanhineron Item.
Testimony showing the Tin Trust in
creased prices and closed mills was heard
by the Industrial Commission.
Controller Dawes, in a report just made
public, shows that bank deposits have
nearly doubled in the United States, while
loans have not kept pace. Interest rates,
he shows, have gradually declined.
The battleship Indiana. Captain F. W
Dickins commanding, has been ordered in
to reserve at the League Island Navy Yard.
Most of her crew will be detached, but the
vessel will have enough caretakers on
board to keep her in condition for immedi
ate service.
It is probable that the Navy Department
will ask for an appropriation to equip
some war ships with the Marconi wireless
telegraphy instruments.
Admiral Schley mado his final call at the
Navy Department beforo assuming com
mand of the South Atlantic Squadron.
Commander Hemphill, ot tho Detroit,
notified tho Navy Department that the
cruiser had reached La Guayra from
Puerto Cabello.
A mpssasre wa? sent to Aguinaldo bv
President McKinley, asking humane treat
ment for Spanish prisoners.
The Guatemalan Minister, Lazo Arriaga.
took the initinl steps looking to a pnreels
post convention between the United States
and Guatemala.
A pension of $15 per month was granted
by Commissioner Evans to Adelaide W.
Bagley, mother of Lieutenant Worth Bag
ley, who was killed in the war with Spain.
Our Adopted Islands.
Lieutenant Johnston, with M. Troop, of
the Third Cavalry, captured at St. Nieolas,
in the Philippines, twelve barrels contain
ing the wardrobe of Aguinaldo's wife, some
personal effects, the records of the Secre
tary of War and much commissary and
medical supplies.
General Young, with his cavalry, is dis
persing the insurgent forees in the low
country near Manila.
The social season in Havana officially
began with the opera. Governor-General
Brooke and a large number of persons
prominent in official and civic circles were
present.
The Hawaiian school system is described
in the annual report of the Commissioner
of Education as remarkable for its com
pleteness, and, out of a total population of
109,020 in 1893, the school enrollment was
14,522.
Threo Americans were sentenced in Ha
vaua, Cuba, for refusing to cater to col
ored persons.
The rebels are again becoming active in
the vicinity of Manila.
Governor-General Brooke issued a proc
lamation for the observance of Thanksgiv
ing Day in Cuba.
Secretary of Finance Desbernine intends
to submit to Governor-General Brooke a
proposal to construct twenty small gun
boats for Cuban coast guard service at a
cost of 8300,000.
Two cases of smallpox were discovered
in a Spanish steamer landing at San Juan
de Porto Rico.
Domeitic.
The publishing firm of Harper & Brothers
lias been reorganized, with George B. M.
Harvey, editor and proprietor of the North
American Review, as President.
Dr. Thomas E. James', of Grenville, and
his son, Wade Hampton James, were killed
near Six Mile Church, S. C. by Sam Lanier,
a farmer, who had heard that the Jameses
were driving away with his wife. Sam
Lanier surrendered to tho Sheriff. It is
believed he will not be punished.
Representative Evan E. Settle. Demo
crat, of the Seventh Kentucky District,
died suddenly at Owen'ouof heart disease.
Evan E. Settle, wh defeated Colonel W.C.
P. Breckinridge for Congress, was a silver
Democrat and a lawyer.
The Call, of San Francisco, says the
number of shares of Southern Pacific Rail
way stock sold by Mrs. Stanford to the
Huntineton-Speyer svndieate was 283,000,
for 611,320,000. and that Mrs. Stanford has
already transferred 11,000.000 to the en
dowment fund of the Leland Stanford, Jr..
University.
Two desperate military prisoners named
Morgan and Jamison disarmed the ser
geant in charge ot the military prison at
Fort Crook, Neb., just before dark and
started on n run to escape. The sergeant
recovered himself and at a range of 500
yards shot aud killed Morgan. The other
inpu escaped.
It is feared that the Government stores
of winter clothing consigned to the two
companies of military at Fort Gibbon
(Weare on the Yukon) wiil not reach tho
troops this winter, in which ease the men
will suiter severely. It is believed the goods
reached St. Michael too late to be sent up
the river.
It is learned at Sau Francisco, Cal.. that
during the typhoon eneoitutert by the
transport Siam. on the way to Manila, 331
horses were killed by being stampeded, aud
that their dead bodies couid not be thrown
overboard for four days.
Atonzo J. Whitenian and threo of the
gang of five men said to bo the cleverest
bank swindlers in the country, are under
arrest in New York City, while the other
nember of tho quintet has baeu caught in
Pittsburg.
The Municipal Assembly of Greater New
York met in joint session and adopted the
budget for 1300, 8M.77.S.972.4S. the amount
to be raised by taxation beiug $83,00J,000.
Four zinc-lined trunks, such as are used
by traveling men to carry samples, each
containing a dead bodv, ware taken from
the baggage room at Union Station at St.
Louis, Mo., and Frank Thompson, a brother
of E. D. Thompson, city undertaker of
Memphis, Tenn., is under arrest.
W. F. Pell, Assistant Postmaster at
Exemor, Va., was arrested by Inspector
Slaxwell for issuing bogus money orders
to the amount of $1400 to defray hU per
sonal expenses. Former Postmaster J. A.
Smith was placed iu charge of the office.
Foreisn.
The German Emperor has granted the
Silesian estates of the late Duke Louis of
Sagan-Valencay in fief to the French Due
de Talleyrand-rerigord.
The rumors of an approaching conflict
between Japan and Russia lind no corro
boration among Japanese oSicials. The
idea of a collision is discredited in diplo
matic circles in Paris.
The French Chamber ot Deputies voted,
310 to 215, confidence in tho Government
in its conduct of the High Court trials.
Advices from Cartagena say that every
thing is quiet in the Department of Bolivar,
Colombia. The revolt in that State has
been suppressed.
General Paredes, the revolutionary leader
who was in command at Puerto Cabello
when it was captured by the forces of the
present Government, has been taken to
Caracas Vnnoy.'jpbt. y urisoner.
Count von Bulow will not make a Sa
moan statement in the Reichstag until the
United States has formally notified Ger
many of its consent to tho agreement en
tered into betweeu Great Britain and Ger
many. Admiral Conrrojolos cables from Kwang-Chow-Waug
that two of his officers at
Montao have been murdered by Chinese.
Tho French Admiral then seized the Prefect
of the province of Hainan and his gun
boat. At the opening of the Italian Parliament
King Humbert urged au early considera
tion of the budget.
The new Government of President Jime
nez and Vice-President VasqucK, of Han
Domingo, was inaugurated.
The announcement is formally made in
London that no foreign government dis
patches, either in secret code or cipher can
be transmitte 1 via the Capo except mes
sages between Portugal and the Governor
General of Lorenzo Marques.
Steamers from the Mediterranean are
held in quarantine at Trieste owing to the
prevalence ot the plague.
There is disquieting news in regard to
the Khalifa's movements in the Soudan.
The Sirdar has left Cairo.
A violent shock of earthquake was felt at
Leghorn, Italy, causing a groat panic
among the population.
General Sir Charles Warren has been ap
pointed Chief of the Fifth Infantry Di
vision ordered to Cape Colouy. Ho h;n
seen considerable service iu South Africa.
GENERAL A. D. COWLES DEAD.
Well Known North Carolinian Passe,
Away Suddenly.
Gen Andrew D Cowles Deaa
General Andrew D. Cowles, late Ad-
jutant General of the State Guard,
died at his residence in Statesville.
The news or tne cieaia oi ueueiai
Cowles occasioned surprise and regret.
It had not been generally known that
he was ill.
General Cowles organized the three
volunteer regiments from this State
during the Spanish-American war.
After his appointment as lietenant
colonel of the Second North Carolina
Volunteer Regiment he had the mis
fortune to break a leg while riding
into the -ity of Raleigh on Hillsboro
street. He had a suit pending against treatment of cows blooded cows
the Raleigh Street Railway Company and upon the quarantine of cattle,
for $15,000 damages, claiming that the j Tnese are timely and will be read
accident with which he held the street wjtn interest.
car company responsible, deprived The "French Coach Horse" is dis
him of an appointment as brigadier cusse(i at length, and the bulletin says
general in the volunteer service. j "ought to serve to stimulate improve-
Gen. Cowles was apointed Adjutant ment in our breed of horses."
General of the State Guard February i -10,
1897, by Governor Russell. He was Fort Caswell Damaged,
made brigadier general of the State j it is learned that the damage to
Guard December 1, 1897. On April 27, j Fort Caswell, at the mouth of the Cape
1898, he was made lieutenant-colonel Fear river, by the hurricane of Octo
of the Second Regiment, and after 1 ber 31st, is so serious that the gov
that regiment was mustered out he ! ernment will have to spend $20,O0O
was appointed captain of Company I, ! to restore the work and to provide
from Durham, First North Carolina protection against further storms.
Volunteer Regiment. Captain Cowles i The damage is estimated at $300,000.
went with the regiment to Cuba. ! A breakwater will have to be con-
The deceased was a native of Yad- j structed around almost the entire isl
kin county. He married a daughter j and. This it is estimated will cost
of Dr. J. J. Mott, who died several j $200,000.
years ago, leaving two children. His ; '
uncle, Calvin J. Cowles, was president State News Notes,
of the constitutional convention in j The New York Financial Review
1868, and Col. W. H. H. Cowles, an- j says: "The decision of the supreme
other uncle was a member of Con- j court of North Carolina to the effect
gress from the Eighth district for j that State Treasurer WoTth was right
three terms. , ' in refusing to pay out of the $110,000
' realized by a bond issue the peniten-
Protected Their Home. : tiary debts justifies the stand taken
A young white man named Johnson j y the official, -which was at the time
in Wake county, was whipped in a j declared by the lawyers to be based
fight by John Butler, also white. The
latter told Johnson that he would go
Fridaj' night to his house and whip
his entire family. Butler and three
companions, Lowery, Warren and
Bridges, went to Johnson's house.
Johnson's father fired at Butler and
the four left, but at midnight return
ed and burst in a door. Johnson's
brother shot Lowery in the arm. Old
man Johnson seized an axe and went
in to kill the intruders. He gave Low
ery a. deep and dangerous wound in the
j chest and cut both arms. Lowery fell
j and begged for mercy. The old man
; found Warren was beating one of his
! sons. He gave Warren - two axe j
wounds in the Back. Bridges and
Butler were trying to kill Johnson's ;
eldest son, but the appeals for help by
! Wrrren and Lowery caused them to
j desist.
State News Notes,
i M. Muller, a hydraulic engineer, whe
is making a survey of the water pow
; ers of the Catawba river, has been
! making his headquarters in Morgan
I ton for the past week. He began hi
j eurvey near Catawba station and has
j reached the "Double Shoals" in this
j county. He says he has been employ
i ed by a Northern cotton mill syndi
cate of large captal to report on the
water powers of this section, and that
they expect to build a number of cot
ton mills. He has found a number of
line water powers, and finds S00 horse
power at the ?IcDor.'ell-Garrison
shoal, half a mile from Morganton.
This power is now being developed by
the owners.
Some persons are saying that ex
Senator Ransom will be an aspirant
for the senatorial nomination.
North Wilkesbcro has voted for the I Eonie twenty cars and flat?. The road
issue of bonds "to put in an electric i is in very fme condition, possibly the
plant. ' beet new read in the State, and as it
Alexander F. Sanders has been ap- j nds presents an outlay of $100,
pointed postmaster at Biscoe and Sa-1
rah A. Snow at Good Spring. The Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke
A mica mine, which we are inform- j company have suspended operations
ed is turning out a good quality of at Tomotia until they can put in a
glass in paying quantities, is being op- hydraulic washing plant to -lean the
erated on the Toxaway company's iron ore. Cherokee Scout,
boundary. jim FeweIi cciored. who is employ-
Prof. J. C. Leonard, who has been 1
to Pennsylvania and Ohio soliciting !
funds to build an addition to the col- j
lego at Newton has raised $3,000 for !
that purpose.
At Balfour Station, the Balfour
Quarry company have begun the erec
tion of a large atone building beside
the railroad track, in which to carry
on a large merchandising business.
Saies of gold mining property in the
Johns River gold fields in Burke and
Caldwell counties within the past two
weeks aggregate about $15,000. Be
sides the sales already completed, a
number of tracts are held under op
tion. Shelby Aurora.
W. E. Smith, an energetic and pros
perous young farmer in Halifax coun
ty, has realized a very large yield from
his peanut crop. He realized 630
bushels of Spanish peanuts on eicht
acres. The land had been cultivated
in cotton fifty-five years consecutive
ly before this year's peanut crop.
Mr. Moses II. Cone, of Elow'ng
Rock, is, we are informed, preparing
a lot of Watauga apples for the Paris
exposition. The fruit is being careful
ly picked; will be shipped to New
York and put in cold storage until
spring, when it will be exported to
France. AVe are told that the collec
tion embraces many of our finest va
rieties, and this will 'doubtless be
quite an advertisement for our moun
tain section.
Estelle Hall, the two-year-old
daughter of Dr. Hall, of Prospect Hill
is believed to be the only person in
these parts who has six living grand
mothers and four living grandfathers
two grandmothers, two' great grand
mothers, and two great-great grand
mothers, two grandfathers and two
great grandfathers. That is some
thing that not many children can boast
of. All of her living ancestors are en
joying good health. Durham Co-
Raleigh Post.
THE NOVEMBER BULLETIN.
An Interesting Number-Dr. Kilgo
On Cotton Seed.
i The bulletin of the Agricultural De-
, tment for November, which will be
J io.ued In a few days, will be found to
j tain much matter of value.
There is a special aiuue uy ji. .
W Kilgo Slate chemist, upon the im
portant subject, "Cotton Seed-What
Shall we do with Them?" The sub
ject is thoroughly discussed in all its
stud brai shrdlu shrdlu hrdlu shrdlu
phases and deserves to be carefully
ctndiPd bv every cottcn planter In the
state, and put by for future reference.
Dr. Cooper Curtice, state veierinan-
CT additional valuable ad-
an, present
J and. information concerning the
on solid legal ground. treasurer
Worth-contended that these debts
should be paid from the annual ap
propriation and not from the bond 13
sue. This is not the only case where
his firmness has proven to be dictated
by good sense. In many of his official
acts he has evinced a clear under
standing of his rights and duties, and
has been upheld by public opinion and
by the bench. He is among the most
efficient and painstaking public ser
vants cf the State, and he has durlntf
his incumbency made a record cf
which he may properly feel proud."
The survey of the rrmuJ for the Ral
eigh and Eastern Railway is still in
progress. One route was surveyed last
j week to a point twenty-rour mu?s
j from the city, and the surveyors are
now on their way back over a differ
ent route. Three routes in all will be
surveyed. It has developed in mak
ing the survey that there are much
larger quantities of timber along the
! route than were at first supposed,
while the agricultural resources of
: that section are very great. The pro- I
moters of the road are much encour
aged by the outlook for business and
declare that the road will certainly i work ini In wn I.!.
be built.
It is the intention of the Dukes to
resume work on the Cape Fear ami
Northern Railroad at an early date,
it is said. It will be built on to Fay
etteville, making it about fifty miles
long. Already 21 miles of the read is
in operation and it is paying hand
somely. From nine to thirteen cars of
lumber are daily delivered over it,
to the Seaboard Air Line at Apex, be
sides other freight. The road ha.
one engine, two passenger cars and
ed in the beef market of S
P. Goforth
of King's Mountain, shot and killed
Sam Moore, colored, who worked in
the livery stable of Plouk & Ware,
last Saturday night.
The Secretary of State incorporates
the Elizabeth City Knitting Mills.
The incorporators are D. B. Bradford,
J. B. Blades. J. B. Flora, W. C. Glo
ver. Dr. W. J. Liumsden. 0.-car Me
Mullen. F. M. Grill. R. B. Martin. T.
B. Nash, W. T. Old. A. Ii. Pendletoa,
C. H. Robinson. .. L. Sawyer, G. M.
Scott, W. J. Woodley, J. II. White,
and P. H. Williams. The capital
stock is to be not les3 than $20,000,
and may be Increased to $300,000. Tha
incorporation lias the power to spin,
knit, -and weave all fabric of cotton
or wool.
The citizens of Hookcrton
public meeting and appointed
mittee to confer with the A
railroad to try to secure
road from Kiniton to Snow Hill in
Hookerton.
Practically all the cotton in ih3
State i3 now picked. There is a littlo
about and only on low lands, but it
is damaged by rain and wind. 'stained
and bletched and counts for little.
The oldest cotton grower never Haw
the crop gathered so rapidly.
There are" more than four hundred
and fifty cases on the docket of the i
tmiueu acaies uistrict court at Ral
eigh, and there remains two weeks
more tor reports from commissioners
The counterfeiting case against Law- ' 1
v&. A T ir i 11 .....
jt4 u. jiarauau, OI wumington.
win come up it witnesses are
The report of thev Fourth
mr. t-ostmaster General, just made
public contains the following
interest: "Number of appointments MVirjETll K TO C&
of presidential postmasters durini? NUttr.ULft UU
we year-North Carolina, 2. Num- srFflCEf SliV
m F Cf f "rth -clasa appointments- ! CLOSE C0X
I V7 ro"na au- me report shows
that in North Carolina the number of
fiS SC?Mi3 3'00the Ste ranking
5r uln ihi9 resPect and fch- gross
North Carolina receipts during the
year were $788,121.67.
Tuesday night Judge Purnell reraov
moved J. B. Fortune as clerk of th,
Stfte distr,ct c andH. ll
Grant arrived to take charge.
$ hORN
BUSTS,
y wat,.:T"v
I" '.
1 0p
Tie
arc-not h Kr,.ator hV.
success th.?n cannot. 1 1
The Christian !i.artV-n.
sential in ih- foun !.ui..n
public. 1 yf
Most men bo
have spent nil.
Chririhins mo
no medium ones.
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fklr-forpoli.-U i, ,
by remembering other--. '
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niB wtirm is a v-l ,
the fire is already l.u.m.n.
Gods llrst iut aft.r t,
r.iany puuin- prof, s.iIls a
When there is a
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tmiA nonn A ...11 .
hearth.
When a
his home.
man :n i.i
....... gfy
Hie v nil ;,rn .
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The fulness ni' viK,-..
only when
takes
iauus ami p;uy ::i tiCtt- f,m.
vncn irce i.c.n r. t-ns f,,r
oi nis worKs:io. io ten
uivi. n byuipiiiiny til sut;f(-s (
INDIGO INDUSTRY McN-cr
Can lot Compete with Dyci r,v
Modern Cfceaisirv.
The groat indiiru linl!; .
w hich gives eiuplM-. i,,,.,,, tl) ,
of thousand of f;iiniii, s jail.
most populous dwiri.-u lt,,
dirt, in threatened wit, ,
Tivuntr-llrn 1 1 i 1 1 i . . i . ..t .1 i,
are iiivi'sifu in u. j,,,, t
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promise to ::ssuiih- i hi- jo,;,
a public calamiiy. 'hi,.
tors, who own tlit- l.ni.is ajj,;
mainly at their vi f, ai,.
five year api funned iin ::
ociK ' It vh!i the ;;..v(n,::
...i .i i i i ..i ... .
tweeu tiu landuwiiiTs tl.er
and tlu factories. :ni,l ).,,
ever since an uiiennnnuii
i . tI fl t ..... i.
M I'l'v I ( . .Milt II
with ruin bec-insi- ,( i;,,. ,
of tho cheiip niiiliin- dvi;,,
modern chemistry. I.,ri.
the Behnr i:ili;.M lu l l i; .....
tile of its siii ci ii.vl.y ',n - !
niaiience. to tin- :U' ii: .
it I now cl.iii.N'i! fi,;i; n n 1
imlhro 11:1 liiM 'i 'ii. '.'. ,'ir
As far ltru-k :is lsj I ;
Khnwed how to Imi'iM ,
tic:J.ly from i:s iujm.i
after years el eu-liy i .; ,
not found pooil !,. i
conic rvially by 1 i: '!.' I
however. Frof. II;;
carried the 1 . :u . .1 ;i ., .
and linallv. in l- 7. :
was bought ujmiii tl
capable of compel it;- v. I;;,;
article. The 111. 1111. f;.. r.rc
l.l.KIt I'll.'.' II 111 111' 1; . 1
llehar liinl t lieci.!v.
contend again! an ".'
equal to and el: ;iit linn : I
ami independent ,.f rai.;
lie Gate !.' Czx
It wa at a . .'. : ...
clergyman after r. hr.w'.i.
of matrimony ! :' ii '
pie concluded by mi . Ii..: '.
any object 'niis tin y i i i.
A fashionable yuiMn. sa'
of the iniendi d b?i.!e. H i i ::
of a. portion m' tin m!!:':
tipon biin. rose ni :.'il
have no object leii- f.-r '
and then quietly rc-;"!i-l
he had attended to a ::'.-
GOV. TAYLOR'S re'r
LOVE LETTERS. Vrt..
M-nd 30 cents fur llir.-e r. a. "
ti The in.iirat, J I ..'. I . ! V
Karh ltlter U wi-!l illuMr.it. -i. T"
to I'ncle Sam, l'..litlrimis, U-j."
liruitiriDTH, li.MIci laiirrav.'
NorUmen, raiiiliiuilro, s.tl""
Tliry art ro'isid'Tcd tin- I " '- ''
come from Gov. Taylor' !!'"' l!
tion as a r-rirr, Aii.-nrr: ,
U r.i u irlc us the world it
The llltistrat.:t 1 nx.'b . A 1
journal, lflto 32 pa-r, ?iVo".H'
KV, Al)Vi.NrtKW IIV AM'W
lll'MOK, IilO'.KAi 111, 'lltVUJ.'
guneral Information. I. p-rtr"
CJiiJr.u'jt, rr. .i.-i'.-f
etc. Only high trr:nl illi::r .t...-'
national circulation pul'lis-V .J :''
a gold watch, lia;.iuiiil fin. ' r
littlo work for u. s vripir t C '
Tlio uu l and Atjr l'ul. ''.
it
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n held a !7v
.daconi- MtetfMfflWT
a branch ) u vfiixr'ir"
inn f ' I mmml
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