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pjj3L.isHeb reBRv! EifBNiNG excef sundhy. .-.j-;. V KINSTON, N. 0., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1900.. Vol. r7I-No. l91 Price Two Cents. GENERAL ?HEWS. f Matters of Interest Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. A bill Jor the disfranchisement of the negro has been introduced into the Geor gta legislature. Mrs. Zeralda James, widow of Jesse ' James, the noted, bandit, died Tuesday at her borne in Kansas uty, Mo. y The veterinary .college building, one of the finest buildings of Cornell University, was damaged $25,000 Tuesday morn ing.'.' V N The Baltimore schooner James J.Reese, lumber laden, was lost in Chesapeake Bay Monday. The crew 01 lour were drowned. 6 O. H. P. Belmont's illustrated political weekly, The Verdict, has suspended after two years of publication. Air. lieimont sunk abou't $30,000. TannA !1 a 4-Ik n t - n nuAminanf tttivnn rtf I a t . ... .t 1 1 a Atlanta, was run aown oy an eiectric car in the centre of that city Tuesday. His injuries resulted fatally. Grant Bros., stock brokers, of New York, made an assignment Tuesday. It Is said that the stoppage of the firm's business was due to the defalcation of $150,000 to $17StQ00. A forest fire burned Brooking s mill at Fredalbra Park. Cal. Over 10,000,000 feet of lumber was burned. The flames could be seen 60 mileB away. The dam age is estimated at $400,000. Fire destroyed the Wichita Falls mill and elevator at Fort Worth, Tel., Tues day. Over 20,000 bushels of wheat were burned with the . buildings. Loss about $140,000, fully insured. In a fight over business anaors con- TiAfWt with nneratlon of a store at Bn- nita, La., P. S. Bateheler killed his part ners, J. A. Williams anq a. b w el bourne. All three were prominent citizens. Ten people were injured in a collision between, a northbound Lake (Snore pas senger tram and an extra freight train, which met beadon three miles south of Kalamazoo, Mich., Tuesday afternoon The plant of Tha Evening Stars and Time at Winchester, Va., was badly damaged by fire Tuesday morning. ' The fire undoubtedly was of incendiary origin. The loss is $3,000, fully covered by insur ance. ' . " Capt. John D. Hart, of Cuban filibus tering fame, died in ' Philadelphia Tues day. During. 1896 two of nis vessels made f reduent trips to Cuba with arms and ammunition forjChe Cubans. Capt. Hart was born in Virginia. In a dispatch to the war office, dated 4 . J Tsttt a aciKiii-i AJaw 1 O Clan T)fnwi'm gave details, of five skirmishes with the Boers, lie says the commandos appear to act independently, with no particular object except to cause as much annoy ance to the British, as possible. A difficulty occurred Monday afternoon at Deidron, Va., between Robert Palmer and Henry Mason, negroes, during which the latter was shot ' and killed by the iormer. Palmer was subsequently . ar rested and has since confesssed that he killed Mason, but says that he did so' in self defense. - , A cable from Paris, Nov 14, says The Figaro makes the following sensational statement: "A recrudescence of royalism is imminent. '.The Duke of Drleans has ordered meetings in the wards of Paris and .the movement will' be extended to the departments, when well on .foot in the capital' , . , - - s Because the cable between ualveston and Vera'' Cruz, Mexico, was broken in never! nieces, and rolled nn into tansrled piles in several places during the late hurricane which swept over the island. the opinion is entertained that the hurri cane was accompanied by a subterra nean eruption, which would -"account for the extraordinary, tiaai wave. . , " In 1884 Frederick White was sent to Coventry, N. Y., by hi wile to buy a sack of flour; "He returned Monday car rying the flour on bis shoulder. In the meantime he had sojourned to the west, acquiring a cattle rancn ana a small fortune, ne greeted nis wile by saying: "Here's your flour, Maria. :: I didn't for get it." white was long ago given up as dead. '.''. - - 2JA Centerville, Md., dispatch, 13th, says:, Two brothers, Charles and William E. Denny, who lived in a little shanty on j Kent Island, near the Chester river steam boat wharf, and engaged in fishing and oystering, were found dead yesterday, one in his shanty and the other in the freighthouse on the wharf. They were between 40 and 43 years of age. The canee of death is supposed to have been ' drinking Jamaica ginger" in place of whiskey. . -' To remove a troublesome corn or bun ion: rirst eoalc the corn or bunion in warm water to soften it, -then pare it down as closely as possible without drawing blood and apply Chamberlain s Fain Balm twitfe daily; rabbins vigor ously for five minutes at each applica tion, A corn plaster shouM be worn for a few data, to protect it from the shoe, j As a general lioitnent for sprains, bree, lameness and rheumatism, 1'cia lulm L? cneqaaled. I or sale ty J. II liood. . MASTER OF HIMSELF, The Teat Wmm ITalaae One, tnt the Dor Stood It. That was a unique way in widen Mr. Smith, a merchant of an eastern city in want of a boy, is said to have tested the young applicants who came to blm. He put a sign in his window: "Wanted, a Boy Wages $4; 6 to the Right One." As each applicant appeared the mer chant asked, "Can you read?" Then he took the boy Into a quiet room, gave him an open book and' bade him. read "without a break until told to stop. When the reading had been going qn for a few minutes, Mr. Smith dropped a book to the floor and then roseand moved certain articles about the , room. This, was sufficient to pique the curiosi ty of some of the candidates. - They looked up, lost their place on the page', blundered, and the merchant said: "You may .stop. I shall not need you at present. I want a boy who is mas ter of himself." If the reader was undisturbed by Mr. Smith's movements, a lot of roguish puppies were tumbled out of a basket and encouraged to frolic about the floor. This proved too much for most of the boys. They looked, hesitated and were dismissed. Boy after boy underwent the same treatment until over 30 had been tried and had failed to eontrol their curiosi ty. At length, one morning, a boy read steadily on without manifesting any desire to look at the puppies. 'Stop!" said the merchant finally. "Did you see those puppies?" 'No. sir." replied the boy. "I could not see them and read too." "You knew they were there?" "Yes, sin", . v "Are-you fond of dogs?" "Yes,.elr.'.' . a . f All T Tlt1. mtill 0iiff YtA All 4,ijUb 4. luiua j vvj-a omk iuv) said the merchant. "Come '.tomorrow, Your wages will start at $4, and If you prove master of yourself, as I think you will," you shall have $0, perhaps more." It. was .not, many weeks before the wages were $6, and promotions follow ed. Now the young .man fills a high position in the store. Youth's Com panion. Quicksilver. - The ore from which quicksilver Is ob tained is a brilliant red rock known at Cinnabar. When: of high purity, it I; actually vermilion in color. . Cinnabar Is the original. source of the pigment known commercially as vermilion. ' It is a compound of sulphur and quick silver, and in order to separate the 'lat ter from the sulphur the rock is roast ed; Passing off in the form of a gas. the mercury is afterward - condensed and flows out in a fine stream, like a continuous pencil of molten silver. The discovery, of the famous Califor nia mines came about in an odd sort of way by observation, of the vermilion paint with which certain Indians in that part pf the country frescoed their bodies. It was ascertained "where they got the pigment, and thus were revealed the rich deposits which subsequently. became of . such . commercial Impor tance. . Like gold and silver, mercury Is occasionally found in a native or pure state.;. Sometimes the miner's pick penetrates a cavity that contains a cup ful or more of the elusive and beauti ful fluid.' '.-- Miners suffer much from the poison ous effects of the quicksilver fumes. Ex treme cleanliness is the best safeguard foe workers in this dangerous occupa tion. Use Is also made of a sort of lem onade which serves to a certain extent as an antidote, a strong acid taking the place of lemon juice in the composition of the drink. Saturday Evening Post. -; Shakespeare la the Bible. In Shakespeare's' name lies the key to a wonderful cryptogram. The spell- teg "Shakespeare" was the poet's nom le plume, while :? Shakespere" was his name, an evident change from "Shakes- pear." Tin each of the two spellings last given are ten letters four Towels and six consonants. Combine these two figures, and we have the number 46, the key to the mystery. -; Turning to the Forty-sixth rsalm In the revised version, it Is found that the psalm is ; divided Into three portions, each one ending wlth""selah." , Remem ber the number 46. . Counting 43 words from the begin ning of the psalm, one reads the word "shake" in the first portion, and count ing 40 words from the end of the psalm one reaches the word "spear." There is t'Shakespear" as plainly as letters can make It London Answers. Chamberlain's Stomach end Diver Tab lets core biliousness, constipation end hP3'a.:be. They are e.iy to take and p.eafiat 13 ..s't. lor ea.a t y J. u. ilood. . : ' ' -" . THE STORE DETECTIVE. At Tlmea He Ifakea It Cnpleaaast , For Otbara Than Tateves. A young woman who sings In a church choir In this city was In one of the de partment stores the other' day when the detective employed there stopped beJe her and, pointing fo a woman with a long cape and a bag at an ad Joining counter," said: . "Just watch that woman work." -The singer saw the woman take two articles from the counter when the shopgirl was not looking' and drop them into ber bag. ' vf "WhyTfche is -stealing." she said. "Yes." said the detective, "and if you will fpllow her to the next counter with me you will see her. take more things." The singer , was interested, and she walked along wit,h the detective, Two more articles were dropped in the bag. and then the detective arrested the shoplifter. She made the usual scene and protested her Innocence; The de tective asked the singer if she would step back to the office with him and corroborate his charges and she went, unconscious of further trouble. There was no doubt as to the! shoplifter's guilt She came of a respectable fam ily, and she convinced the; singer that she took the articles not because she needed them or the money that they would bring, but because she had the shoplifting hahlt When these facts were settled, the detective thanked the singer for her as sistance and told her that she must be in the police court at 9 o'clock on the following morning -as a witness. was the singers turn to make a scene She protested against being dragged Into a police court and said that such notoriety w'ould seriously injure her in her work. The detective, insisted, and had the charge against the shoplifter not been withdrawn before the case reached the court the , singer would have been one of the witnesses. She denounced the detective and the store which employed him for. Imposing on its patrons in that fashion, and she is going to make It ber business hereafter to keep out of the way of store detect Ives. , Had the singer been forced to go to court her punishment in the conse quent notoriety would have , been a! most as hard as that inflicted on the shoplifter. New York Sun. The Hollow Boaea of Blrda. The hollow bones of birds are fre quently cited as beautiful instances of providential mechanics in building the strongest and . largest possible limb with the. least expenditure of material, and this Is largely true, and yet birds. like ducks, which cleave the air with the speed of an express train, have the long bones filled with. marrow, or satu rated with fat,, while the lumbering hornblll, that fairly hurtles over the tree tops; has one of the most complete ly pneumatic, skeletons Imaginable, permeated with air to Jhe very toe tips, and the ungainly pelican is nearly as well off. Still It is but fair, to say that the frigate" bird and, turkey Buzzards, creatures which are most aLease when on the wing, have extremely light and hollow bones; but, comparing one bird with .another,' the paramount-impor tance of a pneumatic skeleton to a bird Is not as evident as that of a pneumat ic tire, to a bicycle. Popular Science Monthly. ' . Shakespearean Authority. "This expression of yours. Miss e Muir," said the teacher of the class in rhetoric; who had been examinlng.her assay, "is exceedingly faulty. You say It made the very air sick.;. How. -.can' you think of i the atmosphere being HteXT t - " "It seems xo me." replied Miss De Muir, "I have, read somewhere of an III Wind." Chicago Tribune. - - Ancient Coat Steel. ; The manufacture of cast'steel In In dia can be traced back for, over 2,000 years, while there are also examples of wrought Iron work nearly as old. Near Delhi, close to the Kutub. there is an enormous wrought iron pillar which Weighs ten tons and is thought to be over 1.500 years -old. Chicago Chroni- x AUSUST FLOWER.- "It Is a surprising fact." says Prof. Uouten, "that in my travels in all parts of the world for the last ten years, I have met more people having used Green's August Flower than any other remedy for dyspepsia, deranged liver and stomach and lor constipation. I find for tourists and salesmen, or for persons filling office Eositions, where headaches and general ad filing from irrepniar habits exist, that Green's Aogrnet Flower is a grand remedy. It does not injure the system by fre-pe-nt ue. and is excellent for sour etoraatb --i in-i;r-siion." Sam tie bot- t.e frHj as 1 emp.-Alarston arc? store. I Sold by dealers in all civilised countries HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Probably an Increase of Eighteen Members Under New Apportion ment. States to Lose a Member. Washington, Nov. , 18.--Director of Census Merriam was at the white bouse today lie called the attention of the president to the fact that the figures on the population pf the United States, the total oi wnicn nas Deen announced, are in such shape that they will be at the disposal of congress when it meets for any action it may desire to take in the direction of a re-apportionment bill. The re-apportionment following the count of the twelfth census will become opera tive by law. in 1903. There probably will be a considerable increase both in the ratio and the total number of rep resentatives under the new apportion ment. Starting with the ratio of one to every thirty thousand inhabitants, there were sixty-five representatives in the first congress. This ratio under the tenth census reached 151,911, giving the house of representatives 325 members. The eleventh census in 1890 gave a popula tion of WJ,W2,20, or an increase of 12,500,000. 4 With this the ratio was increased to 173,901 people to each representative. and at this ratio the hout-e numbered 850 members, an increase of 21. The ratio under the new census probably will reach 200,000. With an increase of 18,225,464 shown by the present census j and letting the majority fractions of the apportionment count for an additional! number, as has been the custom, this will make an increase of eighteen mem bers in the next house. He-apportion ment on this basis would leave but four states that would lose a representative They are Maine and Virginia in the east and Kansas and Arkansas in the west, They would lose one member each. Any ratio smaller tnan two hundred thou sand, which would save them their full representation, would it Is thought, maxe an unwieldy addition to the mem bership oi the bouse. EASTERN CAROLINA. Wonderful Resources. No More Senatorial Primaries. Washington Pot, Nov. 14, . Ur. Walter C. Murphy,, just returned from a visit to his mother, said today to a group of friends at the Metropolitan hotel that the developments of the mate rial resources of eastern North Carolina were most gratifying. "Nature has re claimed all the land from Norfolk to Charleston from the sea. . Marine skele tons and deposits of marl are found many miles inland, it is a level, sandy loam A railroad company has a stretch of for ty-n venules without curve, excavation or embankment. It was originally cov ered with long leaved pine, valuable for timber, tar, pitch, and turpentine. '' Mod em methods have converted the short leaved pine, equally. as abundant, into valuable building materials,- and this in dustry has carried millions' of dollars into that section. The climate is semi-trod cal, and palms and other tropical plants grow- at the mouth of he Cape Fear river. These conditions, and facilities tor rapid transportation, make trucking profitable. Ana an available land, con tiguous to transportation, has received a gratifying impulse.". ... Should ail other states decide to elect their senators by a populaf vote, he be lieves the Old North State would vote "No." The competition for Mr. Butler's seat, to be filled by the legislature in January, developed the keenest rivalry among many . uiaungaiBnea -. uemocrafS. A senatorial primary was agreed upon, and it is almost the universal opinion among the friends of all the candidates that the innovation of .a senatorial pri mary is not again desired in North Oaro- ma. K - mii i "'X 4 A special irom linariotte savs news reaches there of the desperate illness of Mrs. Nancy Holifleld, said to be the oldest 13 1 . - ,. . . T"t . . f.. J V . jiving person m me unitea orates, jnrs. Holifield lives near Ellen boro",N.C. Last fall shapontfacted cold and since then has been gradually growing worse Mrs. Holi field does not know her exact age, butre- ates incidents in her lite which took place over a century? agovt-A. Bumper oi peo ple who lire in the same section say Mrs. Holifleld must be about 117 'years old. xoe iaay nerseu states that she is over 10, but does not say how much. Hard Coughs No matter tow hard? your conga Is or now long you have had it. Aycf's Cherry, Pectoral a the Best thing yoa could pos sibly take. If you are coughing today, don't vriit nafcl tooof roav trot get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once and fee'tclicved.' T&e rst dose will mate yoa fed tetter. :v.'; V:j- - T?)iw !?! wwwiKh for n nrdStwry cotd:6.. utt rn l't 1t thma, broixiiuti, hoiwnrtt, wtii' -n -rou.-K, hard oid Lwu, muii ecuuuLu.L&l lot curotuc STATE HEWS. Interesting North Carolina item In Condensed Form. The 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Riat Jonoikin, living' near Henderson, was burned to death Sunday. A passenger train on the Southern jumped the track at Burlington Wednes day. The engineer and a passenger were slightly hurt. The train ran 100 yards on the ground. Dr. Thos; P. Ward, who died in Raleigh last week, by his win, bequeaths f 3.000 to St. Mary'sJTemale College and 17,000 to the University of North Carolina to aid deserving students. " lis At the opera house in Charlotte, Mon ey, while a troupe was pla vinir "Th Mascot" a negro fell down the stairway leading to the gallery. He was bo badly injured he died that night. Lumberton Rdbesonian: Mr. Felton, proprietor of the hotel at Rowland, while at a saw-olill near there, became entangled in the machinery and bad his leg cut off, from the effects of which he died Thursday night. Mr. P. M. Pearsall. secretary of th State Democratic executive committe. has been tendered the position of private, secretary to Gov-elect Aycock and has notified him that he will accept. Mr. Pearsall will fill the place with ability. Durham Herald: Old man Buck Black wel) was last week elected treasurer of this town, an office that pays something like f 25 a month, and we "suppose he was glad to get it. If the old man had one-tenth of what is owing him by men who are living easy around this town he would forever be nut beyond want. Greensboro Record: Just about the toughest story, but no doubt true, comes from Burlington a man sick- and neg lected until be was a mass of running sores, '-varmints" taking possession of him as if he had been a piece of decayed -meat. A fake doctor is charged with the crime. After the condition of things was discovered Mr,' Eugene Holt sent a reputable physician to the man and he is said to be getting, well. Wilmington Messenger: Minnie Farmer, a dissolute woman who came here from Fayetteville a' short while ago, was found dead in bed Tuesday morning at the house of Frankie Lee. Dr. W. F. Stokes, the coroner, was notifled. but after viewing the body and seeing no evidence of foul play, he did sot deem it neceesary to hold an inquest. His opin ion was that death resulted from acute gastritis, caused by alcoholic drink. : Greensboro Cor. Charlotte Observer: An analysis of the official vol nf fluil. ford county in last week's election dis closes the fact that the Democratic vote fell off 775 votes from the August elec- ' won, wane toe nepuDiican loss . was only about 400. Had the full .Democrat?! vote been pojled Mr. Kitcbin's maioritv. in thin county, would have been about 900. Some account for the slump by reasoning, that, while the Republicans held an election, theDemocratscontented themselves with a senatorial primary. Charlotte Observer: Mules are hah. A good animal, cannot be bought for less than $HX), and if the increase in de mand continues this spring these figures will be raised to. f 190 or f 200. Thus Mecklenburg farmers who own o-ood pasture lands might profit by raising thfiiviivn mntoa : TW T fP VY ... ;t Mtmuuieuu, Bfcurteu m me muie oreeamg uusiuess oa nis own noox about izyears ttgy. oiuce inac time ne nas raised about 20 at an average cost ' of about 60 a head. The males produced were large and useful. A special from Dunn. 13th Inst., savs a most cruel and unnatural murder .was unearthed near there Monday by tha discovery of the body of a child drowned in an old well in the edge of Cumberland county. It was found to .be th twn. year-old child of a negro woman, living near town, vy me name oi Melissa Uegg. Upon being arrested, the heathen mother confessed that it was ber child: that she carried it while asleep and threw it in " the well and took, a pole and held it un der water until drowned. She srave rm her reason that she could not- take care of it and wanted to get rid of it. ', The murderess will be sent to CnmberlAnrf county Jail to await trial in that county. btatesviile .Landmark: About . two weeks ago Hunter Angle, a vounc son ui vr. t . jj. Aogie, oi cMgw aiuis wnsmp, -and John Harp, of the same neighbor hood, engaged iu a dispute about some some trivial matter and hot words passed. YouDg Angle bad a banjo in his hands at the time he struck Han on liiv UKft Ul tug tienu WlhU lb, ITBCbDnng his skull. Harp was apparently not seriously hurt at the time and went home. In a day or two he began to complain of his head hurting him, but did not go to bed or secure medical at tention, and it is also said , he drank rather freely for several days. Finally f he grew so much worse that neighboring physicians were called in . and Dr. WVJ. llill, of Statesville, was also called. The doctors found that 3 Iarp's wound was a serious one, that the brain is affected and there is some doubt as to his' re covery. Young Angle is a grandson of Dr. S. Angle, and is about 16 years old. Harp is a man of 85 or 40 more. .
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