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;j : v v ..V', ' ' -V V i A" '':' w- a " ; ''.'..S - V" ' v- -v, III PUBLISHED eieF4V EVENING EXCEPT SUNDRY. Vol. mNo. 229. KINSTON, N. O., MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1000. Price Two Cents. i f GENERAL NEWS. Matters of Interests Condensed Into Brief Paragraphs. At Louisville, Ky., 1,700 tobacco stem men bare gone out on a strike. ' 1 The government of the United States has oSered Denmark f 12,000,000 kroner (about f3,240,000) (or the Danish West Indies. - George Fuller, a negro, was lynched Thursday night in Perry county, Ala., for burning the barn of Mr. Dennis Cum mings. According to Hester's cotton report ' over 600,000 more bales of cotton have been marketed thus fa r than for the same time last season. The wire trust factory at Worcester, Mass., announces a cut of 1 per cent, in the wages of its operatives, reducing the wages of 800 men. In a fit of rage Friday night Matthew Terlip, an Austrian, at Cleveland, O., stabbed his wife and 15-year-old son, probably fatally, and then shot and tilled himself. "The American and Danish govern ments are in direct negotiation for the eale of tBe Danish West Indies," says the Copenhagen correspondent of the Lon don Daily Mail. Two mail sacks were stolen from the waiting room of the depot in the suburbs of Detroit, last Thursday night. The . sacks contained about $100,000 in nego tiable paper, cnecks and money. As a result of a slump in shares of the London and Globe Investment company, which dealt in West Australian mines, Id brokerage arms in London failed Satar day, causine exciting scenes on the ex change. -At Baker Camp. West Va., Thursday ' where work was being done in railway construction, six men were Killed as - result of an explosion from dynamite wnich was being "thawed out " around a stove. - v , ' President McKmley has tendered to Fred Bittman, of Cleveland, Ohio, the position of fourth auditor of the treas ury, made vacant by the tragic death o: Auditor Morris. He is a lifelong friend - of Senator HanDa. .- "The war In the. Philippines has . devel ' oped another Pocahontas. An American lieutenant and nine privates were about to be put to death through a plot, but - were saved by a Hilipmo girl wno was in Jove witn one of tne soldiers. , In a barroom fight in New York Frl- rday over 50 shots were fired, one maa 'tilled, another fatally wouaded and two others wounded. The fight began be tween two professional gamblers, who renewed an old quarrel wnen tney met in tne barroom. Statistician Mulhall kept pretty good tab on tne population or countries and their increase. Last July" he estimated that our census this year would report 70,200,000 people, wnich came only U5 nnder the official .count made several . months later. , ' It is Intimated that Conger will soon resign bis position as minister to China, because thestatedepartmentdisapproves of his conduct as minister ; in not more closely following instructions but on the contrary pining in witn the other min lstera in demanding excessively severe terms to China. - It is also said that the state department has a plan under con sideration to send out to Pekin several . commissioners to "assist Minister Con ger iff the important negotiations yet to be conducted. A Jelc OffembaelL.' Offenbach, . the famous opera bouff e . i composer,- had an Insatiable thirst for . success and : fame ; combined : with a - .Tanlty that occasionally played him a J 's. sktt trick. , v- j.--- . " ' Once he was going down the Bhfne on a steamer among whose passengers .was the Duke of Nassau, a fact of ? .which .the composer waa In bllssfal ig- : ':. norance. - i.-'.-- ' As the steamer, approached Its last stopping place the bank of the river was seen to be covered by a dense ; throng of people ;Who were shouting and waving their hats. , a Dana on the pier was playing a mirch from one of Offenbach's operas. , , , -f As the boat touched the pfer.Offen bach stepped to the rail and bowed and .waved his- hat to the : people ,1a ac . ' knowledgment of this flittering ova tion. , -.';VV It Is glorious to be recefved In a foreign land like this!" ho rcmxif ted to his companions. ' Cut hi3 self complacency received a rode shock the next Instant when the duke's adjutant appeared and said. In .' a rougi and unfeeling manner: Get out of the way, will you, sci let his highness show himself!" Ile'p is rwded at once when ap life is in danger. A ncted coc co!i r-nyf'n t-ecoce f-rio'Tar.l lf t.i cr-e. --e l'.'.--' c t r" !e:..i ( I r:"-, t 'i 1 A Swlaillns; lekcm. Por some years past the treasury de partment h has received from time to time letters from all parts of the coun try asking for Information regarding certain large sums of money which, it Is alleged, are on deposit in the treas nry department awaiting distribution to heirs or persons of great wealth in Europe and America. Among these noted claims is one of the heirs of a man of the name of De Haven, who is alleged to have loaned the government of the United States large sums of money during the Revo lutionary war. Another well known case is that of the Robert Morris es tate, the heirs of which, It is said, are entitled to receive from the govern ment several millions of dollars. The Durkee claim also is well known in the department and Involves several mil lions of dollars. The latest one is that of the heirs of Anneke Jans, who are said to be entitled to receive from the United States something like $90,000,-! 000, which sum. It is said, has been re ceived from Holland and now awaits proof of relationship. ' It is stated at the treasury depart ment that all of these claims are spur! ous and that they are made the basis of confidence games by agents who work upon the cvedulity of the unln formed; Agents, ft Is said, are selling bonds to raise money to prosecute these claims against the government, realizing something like.$10 per $1,000 promised in case of success. The treas' nry department is powerless to proceed against these impostors. Washington Post Bractr Md Education. Why la it that woman has alwaji been more beautiful than man? In human being3 the attractive, quail ties have always been on the side of the female. Why is it? Without wishing to cast any aspersion on the members of the superior sex, we may fairly an swer.tbat it Is because, they have hitli erto been the less educated. But worn an's Ideas are changing. She has Us tened to the voice of the, tempter, whis pering In her. eat all Sorts nfjwee fat xicjf s about .equality of, the .sexes, m teUectus development and its neces sity, and the like, and she has yielded to the temptation, 'And; the -result of this will be that she will lose her beauty. She will suffer in appearance as man has done and is doing, and in the course of time the extremely civ lUzed races of mankind will be ugly Irretrievably and lamentably' ugly. Pearson's Magazine. A Pamooi Pearl. , , The beautiful pearl known as the Great Southern Gross was found In Western Australia In the year 1S84. , jt consists of nine pearls joined together In the form of a cross In which shape It was found by ft man named Clarke It is sald'tha.t the $nder and the first purchaser of it burled it for some time, superstltiously regarding It as a heav enly miracle. It was, however," ultl mately taken np.from its burial place and Bold for $1,000, since which time it has frequently changed hands and is now valued at $50,000. At the Colonial and Indian exhibition in England it at tracted a good deal of notice and Is probably tne only natural cross ever found. -'''- I am now' seventy - two . years 'of age and my hair is as dark as it was twenty-live years : ago. People say ; I look at , least that much younger , than 1 am. 1 ; would : be entirely bald or snow-white if - it were not ' tor; your Hair Vic-or." - Mrs. Anna 't Lawrence, Chi-i cago, ill., -uec. .22, 1 598. Ayer s Hair Vigor restores color to gray hair every time. And it is a wonderful food to ths hair, making it grow rich and heavy, and keeping it soft and glossy all the time. It Jr. .Iso an elecrant dressing. Ons eoV.ar m bottls. ' It too, tend ta 1 ve '. 1- f 5 a One night in 1770 V the Duke of Gloucester, the royal brother of George III, then hiding from bts kingly broth er's wrath In Parisr was regaling a ta ble party of aristocrats at the expense. of the king of England with a trench ant account of the .'Boston tea party." His cynical sympathy was expressed for the American rebels, and he dwelt upon their need for recruits to fight against his brother. The table laugh td at the tale, which was the first the most of them bad heard directly on the preposterous ambitions for freedom of the new world colonists, .Among 'the company was a silent, Solemn young soldier who had listened intently to the recluse until the dinner was finish td. Then he strode across the room to the duke. "I will Join the Americans! I. will helD them fight for freedom! Tell me how to set about it!" be cried, his sal low, listless face now aglow with a fire none of his idle comrades had ever seen there, before. . It was Lafayette, the I9-yar-old marquis, who was the despair of . his family because he seemed always in a drowse. Coming from $ne of the no blest houses of the empire, he was mar ried to a lady of high degree and was already a father. , His wife had been his love, but now freedom became the stronger passion, and for more than 60 years he was to follow its cause. This was the genesis of Lafayette. Edward Page Gaston in Woman's Home Com panion. - -r rrr ; Kept the Bonnet Company, The story of an elderly couple who lived in a Massachusetts town nearly 50 years ago is told by some of the old est inhabitants with much unction. The lady had been bereft of one help meet, and her seconds husband had twice been left a wldo-flrer before the pair were united in the bonds of mat rimony. They were both of that .tem perament which causes ta possessor1 to be characterized as "set3" " On the wedding day, the bride' found In the .back entry,' ok Tt '-'conspicuous nalL a sunbonnet which had belonged to her Immediate predecessor. She re moved it to oblivion In a closet Her newly wedded 'husband made no comment, but replaced the sunbonnet on its accustomed nail. ' During the next few days the calico t headgear vibrated with-1 more or less regularity between . the closet and the nail.. Then, there came a day when the .bride approached her husband, with a loan's hat in her hand as he was In the act of reinstalling the, sunbonnet" V 'If you have that sunbonnet there," she said firmly "I shall hang up .my first husband's bat on the next naiL" 'I She' looked at the bridegroom and met the 1 counterpart 'of heir; own ex-; presslon. , She hung the bat on the des ignated nail, and, although the two people lived to be very old. neither the hat ' nor he sunbonnet eyer .moved again till the bouse - came : into the hands of a new owner. Youth's Com panion. 4 . '. , ,' ;, " '' H Didn't Writ k Storr. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press says that when the late R. E. A. Dorr was on the staff of the Baltimore American news came one day- to the city editor that food in the Seven Foot Knoll lighthouse, out in unesapease bay, was exhausted and that the keep er and bis family were starving. Dorr secured a custom, house tug and loaded It with provisidns.i.-The weather was exceptlonably cold, and the tug was stuck In the ice half a mile from the knolL. Dorr Jeft the .boat and started over the ice. - - . When be reached the. lighthouse, he was warmly greeted, i HJome la tne dining room" ' said the keeper's wife after the rescuer had warmed himself. "Come In and have dinner with us." , . Jlr. Dorr thought that hunger had made hef mad. ; "1 heard that yon needed food," stammered Mr. Dorr as soon as- he could speak. ; I : ' i Well, come to think of It", replied the housewife, "we do. We have plen ty of meat and vegetables,.!Uour and that sort but the next time you Jire coming out this way we'd appreciate it If you'd .bring over a few Jars of quince Jam," she added cheerfully.. ' . Jlr. Dorr took his provisions back to Baltimore, but no account of bis trip was written. ; ; Cannibal and Pork, - In the New Hebrides human life has teen made safe by the introduction of p!rs into the island. The cannibals are taid to prefer? roast pork to roast man. and as tLe porcine tribe incn-ascs among tLe natives they may give up ttc!r feasts on human f esh altogether tZ';:V.zs wLa ' 8--nt:-tL'ng unusual : ; v.: :i such 3 c: Urtalnicg A king of 1 i.-In 1 or on state :,cr c c ' v r-3 ccreniony. JUDOB FAIROLOTH DEAD. Died Suddenly vVlbin Ten Minutes Alter Tauag a satn. Twice su preme Court . Juatloo. Eleotod Chief Juatice in 1895. Goldsboro, N. C Dec. 29. Chief Jus tice William T. Faircloth died suddenly at his home in this city tonight about 10 o clock. Us had taken a bath and the attack came on him Just as he had put on his night robe preparatory to going to bed. He hastened to lie down upon the lounge and his wife saw that hia condition whs critical. The neigh bors and his physiciau wra hastily sum moned, but he was dead before they ar rived. In fact he expired in a moment or two after reaching -the lounge. His neighbors came in quickly, applied resto ratives and did what they r oonld, but it was too late for human assistance, and it was soon apparent that life was ex tinct. There is a deep regret in this commu nity at the sudden death of the chief jus tice. He has lived here many years and long been identified with its professional and business life. He was one of the wealthiest men in the place, a director in the Bank of Wayne, interested in other enterprises, and the owner of five blocks of real estate in the city. He.was a con sistent and leading member of the Bap tist church and was a liberal contributor to all Its institutions and enterprises. The arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made. Telegrams were sent last night to bis sister, Mrs. Geo. W. Sanderlin, of Washington, ' D. C, and other relatives. It is probable that the funeral will be held on Monday. We reprint from the Raleigh News-Ob server the following: Judge raircJotn was born in tireene county. He was a graduate of Wake Forest College, of which be was a trustee at the time of his death. He volunteered in the Confederate service and was qnar- termaster of the Second North Carolina r regiment when Gen. Lee surrendered. After the war he settled at Goldsboro, where he always had a large and lucra tive practice.' He was a man of sound business judgment and his investments made him a rich man.' The late Henry F. Grainger. Esq.. was his law partner, and he was afterwards a law; partner of ex JudgrWntritrAllett, 61 Goldsboro. In 1875 or. 1876. Gov. Brogden ap pointed Judge Faircloth to a position as associate judge of the supreme court. He held that position until the Demo cratic victory of 1878. In 1884 he was the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor but was defeated by Mai. Chas. M, Stedman. In 1894 he was the fusion candidate for chief justice and was elected by a large, majority. His term began Jan. 1st, 1895, and would have expired Dec, 81st, 1902. ; Jndire Faircloth was & consistent and lifelong Republican, the first man of. his party in every way in eastern jnoihq uar- ollna. .He was a man of. personal integ rity, and in politics was the best and most respected man in the Republican party, - He was a Bare ana studious law yer. and had that deliberation and re search that befit the judicial officer He was a strong partisan in ' politics and was often criticised for his partisan ship, but inlasguage and in conduct he was temperate and considerate of the views of others t In his private, life he was upright, grave, modest, sincere and free from criticism. He was free from ostentation, dignified, simple in his hab its, and true to his professions and his convictions. . . , ; Ellifl' Carriage Worka. , Ellis' Carriage Works will, by the end of this week,, be completely installed in their new shops on Gordon street - Mr. Ellis will have, in their new quarters, one of the best boggy and vehicle manufac turing plant in the' State. He has ad ded to his force about a third; which will enable him to at least double his former capacity in number of vehicles turned out and enable him to fill orders quicker. ' .The present chops afford him about 10,000 square feet of room all told. The show room and office occupy the ground floor. The trimming and painting de- Eartments are on the second floor. The locksmith shop is ip the rear, above which is the department in which prim ing work is done. This has a platform reaching to the second story of the main building. The .wood working depart ment will occupy a separate building in the rear, "i'-v-' ;.v, -.:v; -v---,- Mr. Ellis will carry a larger stock in every respect than heretofore and. no doubt will meet with much increased patronage. J '-; v T Core a Cold Is One Day Tlt Laxativb Bitoao . Qcrmjw TABurrt. All drvgisti refund the mosey a it tails to car. X. W. Gov's signature h od ch box. 5C . , A dispatch from Plymouth, England, to London ana ounces the arrival there of fMaj. Gen. Sir Henry Col ville, whose resig nation has been demanded by the war office, who has refused to Teeign and has come to England from Gibraltar to - de mand a court martial with reference to the re? ponsibility for the yoemanry dis aster at Lindley last May. Don't rje auv 6f the counterfeits of De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. Most of them Bre worthless or liable to canse injury. The oronal De'tTiu's Witch Uarel Salve is a certvia cure for piles, ecrema, cnta, trp.u. l-jrrs, sores and ikin diseases. J. E. II; 0 J. SfrATB HEWS. Interesting North Carolina Items In Condensed Form. ' Lieut.-Gov. C. A. Reynolds is to suc ceed Col. Ly brook as postmaster at Win ston, N.C Mr. M. A. Angier, father of Mrs. B. N. Duke, died at Durham Saturday night, aged 80 years. The Charlotte papers report that 1,000 bales of cotton ohh been received from Indian Territory by the Charlotte cotton mills. Arrangements for a stock company to buy The Biblical Rfcordfr are almost completed. J. William Bailey is to con tinue as editor.. Gen. Miles left Newborn last week for his home in Washington, after, be says, being delighted with hi trip. He is commander of the United States army. The Democratic members of the legis lature will hold their joint caucus on the night of January 8, at which they will choose the speaker of the house and other official. It is said there are four or five aspirants for the speakership. The strawberry crop this year in the territory between Goldsboro and Wil mington was immense. Thecomingyear it will be even greater. The North Caro lina berries b&ve by their excellence won a wide reputation In the north and west, -It seems probable that there will be a Virginia-North Carolina baseball league next season, with Raleigh, Durham. Wilmington and Charlotte or Turboro in this State, and Richmond, Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk and Ports mouth in Virginia. , . . - : The Deep River gold mine, near High Point, has been sold to New York com pany. The new company will mine both copper and gold, the former being found ' in abundance, tne reported capital 01 the company is two hundred ' and fifty; thousand dollars; The work will, be pushed. , - Some time ago the court gave dama- fes to the amount of f 5,000 to a Greens-' oro' woman, : whose Jiomcwfta.vbtrned beciuse the water pressure was so poor that the firemen could not get a stream. The water company, had to pay the damages. Now there are fresh suits against it aggregating f 52,000. The total increase In valuation ofprop erty for taxes this year is $18,086, 891.10, as follows: Ileal and personal $17, 938,366, telegraph and telephone $47,643, express $117,370; total $18, 103,879. There is a decrease of rail roads of $20,917, and steamboats and canals $45,561; total decrease $66,475. At Henderson the 12-year-old boy ol Ben Lassiter, colored, shot and probably fatally wounded his cousin, a 14-year-old girl, while playing with a toy air rifle. The bullet struck the girl in the temple and went throught the skull, lodging on the brain. Dra. 'Harris and Baes were called in and pronounced the wound probably fatal.' ' " , Newborn Journal: Alpha, 18-year-old ' son of Mr. John Dixon, of Baird's Creek, while hauling logs last week, was thrown from the log carriage, on which two twelve inch Togs were swung, and ran over by one wheel. It passed over the central part . of. hjs body. He . got up, walked home and died in six hours. ' The bereaved and " needy parents have our sympathies. : '-1 ';-af Wilmington Messenger, - Dec. 29: The Wilmington rice mill property ' on the north side of Chestnut street between Front and Walnut streets, was closed out yesterday to Mr, H. Weil, of Golds boro, president of the Carolina Rice Mill ing company, Mr. Adolpb -1 Oejtinger, of New York, and their associates. The mill here was in the National Rice Mill ing company, with headquarters at New York, and it now goes into the hands of the Carolina Rice Milling company. with headquarters at Goldsboro. The nature of the deal was not disclosed. ' The report of Adj. Gen. Bovster shows the strength of the State guard, includ ing the naval brigade, 1,905, .which is " 69 less than a year ago, but during the year three infantry companies and two naval divisions were disbanded. But a , company at ; Greenville . was , organized and the Maxton company has just been ' ' reorganized and accepted. There are 33 companies with ; 1,516 officers - and en listed men; five divisions of the naval brigade, strength 223, and one artillery section, strength 23. ; The first Regiment has ten companies, the Second has eleven, the Third has twelve. The adjutant gen eral recommends an appropriation for an arsenal and an appropriation for an annual encampment of at least 10 days, with pay and rations and tne' organua- tion of two more light artillery detach- . ments, one in the east and one in - the west . . - - --. - China to Accept the Demands. l' Shanghai, Dec. 29.Chineee papers here state that the court has decided to ac cept the conditions of the powers, and this report is gaining credencer but noth ing has yet been officially announced. It is asserted that the emperor bn ordered tha immediate decapitation of Yu Utloa, formerly governor cf fchaa Si, who was previously degraded an 3 baciched. - Subscribe to Tki 1'f.is TEr-s.
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