THE DAILY F
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PUBLISHED EliERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDRY,
Vol. HI-No. 12.
kinston, n. a. fbiday;apbil2o, 1900.
Price Two Cents;
GENERAL HEWS.
Matters of Interest Condensed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
The bubonic plague is' reported to have
made its appearance at several ports of
the Bed Sea.
Fire, on Wednesday, caused , a loss of
$ 75,000 in the big mattress and iron bed
factory of Chas. H. Rogers & Co. in New
York. . ' . V: ; ;
In Elizabeth county (Va.) court Judge
Lee sentenced Dick Phillip, convicted of
murdering Artilleryman Ney, to be hang
ed May 2u. -
There was an anti-Bryan : dinner in
Brooklyn Wednesday night, about 150
participating. A letter from Grovcr
Cleveland was read.
Work has been resumed on a smal
scale on the Croton dam at New York
The new workmen are guarded from the
strikers by 1,350 soldiers.
The Sharon (Pa.) Firebrick Works
were destroyed by fire Wednesday night,
causing a loss of 50.000, with Jittl m
surance. Over 100 men were thrown out
of employment,
The national league base bail season
opened Thursday. The scores were Phil
adelphia 19, Boston IT; Pittsburg 0,
St. Louis 3; Chicago 13, Cincinnati 10;
Brooklyn 2, Mew lork 3.
A dispatch says that nearly half the
members of the Chicago ambulance corps,
when offered Mausers on their arrival at
Pretoria, tore off their red cross badges
' and took up arms for the Boer :.?
Louisiana went Democratic almost
. unanimously under her new election law,
the grandfather clause. The state senate
is unanimously Democratic, and the
house will contain at least 100 Demo-
- crate, out of 105 total membership.
Two Russian admirals and 42 other
Bussian naval officers of high rank are
reported to have been arrested at Sebas
topol, owing to irregularities in the con
struction department, and to embezzle
ments amounting to millions of roubles.
William Bell was perhaps fatally shot
. Wednesday bight in Hampton, Va., by a
soldier named Kimpton from Fort Mou-
' roe. Bell, was with a ifriend when, they
' met Kimpton. ,'A row occurred, followed
. by the snooting. Kimpton was arrested.
Guam is the ideal place for the lazy
man. ; Everything the people need to eat
grows spontaneously the weatner is
warm and they don t need any clothes.
so there is no use for" stores, markets or
' any other outshoots of modern civiliza
tion, ,
- The Herald says Senator Piatt told his
friends that in Washington last week a
, prominent western senator told him that
Admiral Dewey was going on the Demo
cratic ticket with Bryan as the candidate
lor vice president, and the western sena
.tor said that if this was the case it
wonld be' absolutely necessary for the
.Republicans to take time by the fore
Jock and nominate Gov. Roosevelt for
Ties president.' Senator Piatt added that
Jhe ' did not think it conceivable ' that
Admiral Dewey would accept a nomina
tion for the rice presidency on the ticket
with William J. Bryan. :
The Best Prescription for Chills
nd fever b bottle of Gbovb'i Taitbless Chill
Tonic It is limply iron and quinine in a tastelen
forou No cure no py. Price, Jjc
A UNIQUE CEREMONY,
Glouceater'a Annual ' Funeral For
Her Lost Fishermen.
.With each returning February there
Is held ; in the ancient wave dashed
town of Gloucester, Mass., a ceremony
solemn in motive, impressive in form
and absolutely unique In origin and
character. It is Gloucester's day of
mourning for her sons who, during the
preceding 12 months, have gone down
to death on the distant fishing grounds.
Headed, by the clergy and commonalty
and by bereft relatives, the people of
the town march in long and slow pro
cession to the appointed place of meet
ing, where, during the remainder of
the brief 'winter's' day, in chant and
prayer and forma addresses, the sor
row In which all shore finds fitting and
touching expression. ,
Everybody who lives In Gloucester is
Interested In the fishing industry, and
so it falls out that the city's life is
about equally made up of intervals of
Joy and sorrow. When summer opens,
the general tone of public feeling is
bright and hopeful, but at the end of
the season, as the fishers come In, some
with flags at half mast, others bearing
fateful news, the whole town Is de
pressed. 1
All the residents show a concern In
the sailors who are lost and in the wel
fare of their families. Even the citi
zens of fortune in Gloucester, who
suffer no personal bereavement, have
been brought closely into touch with
the poor' fishing families through re
peated tragedies at sea. The scenes
in the fishing quarters during the late
fall and winter months, when news of
death is brought by almost every re
turning boat, are most pathetic. Some
times the news comes with a shock; at
others,' wives and children wait for
weeks in anxiety, and never know, the
details of the fate of their loved one&r-
Truth.
; ; The Couiwsro of Hawks.
One female bird In her first season
took 32 rabbits, 3 hares and 2 magpies,
and In the next year 210 rabbits, 2 lev
erets, 11 partridges, 4 magpies and 2
squirrels. A goshawk will go on catch
ing rabbit after rabbit, 'or take five or
six birds in succession, for they do not
tire like falcons. Nothing comes amiss
to them. Hares, landrails, pheasants.
rabbits, waterfowls, ducks, rats, stoats,
weasels, mice, even a hedgehog Is not
despised. ' , . , .
Their headlong courage is simply as
tonishing. They will char go Into
quickset hedge till they have to be cut
out, or dive among rocks and , bowl
ders. Captain Bland of Draycott, near
toke-on-Trent had a goshawk which
stack to a hare till it twice rolled head
over heels. Then the hawk flew after
ft again and was shaken off, while the
hare escaped into a flock of sheep. The
fame bird, pursuing a rabbit, flew right
down ; a largo hole in the side of a
quarry and dragged the rabbit, out of
ft. The "smash" with which a big hen
goshawk goes into an evergreen tree
after a pigeon sounds as if a football
had been violently kicked into the
branches. London Spectator.
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BRYAN AND LIBERTY.
Capt. O'Farrell Applauds Senator
i Hoar's Speech, but Dissents from
His Advice. Favors Bryan and
l Liberty, Opposes Mckinley and
Imperial Tyrrany. ' ,' :
Capt. Patrick O'Farrell has written a
letter to Senator Hoar, asking for copies
of .his great speech of Tuesday last. Capt.
O'Farrell say iu his letter:
"I am an old-time Republican, and an
abolitionist at that, who fought during
the late civil war for the principles of
Washington, Jefferson, and . Lincoln. I
want your speech for the facts therein.
They show the duplicity: and treacheiy
of William McKinley, for whom I spent
eight weeks on the stump. Your speech
shows further that the next election win
determine whether we shall retain our
liberty or do as Rome did, go into
the imperial business. I must, however,
distant from your logic and ; from your
advice to continue to support the Re
publican party as long as it marches un
der the banner of imperialism. "
"I honestly believe that, in order to
E reserve liberty, it is essential that the
onest and manly Republicans who still
adhere to the declaration of independence
and the constitutiou should Use all their
efforts in the next campaign to defeat
McKinley and the Republican, party by
supporting William Bryan, who, no
matter how we Republicans may differ
with his free silver and tariff theories,
yet can agree witn mm - on the greater
and paramount question of imperialism
The question is, whether we shall con
tinue as a republic or go into the colonial
business and convert the stars ' and
stripes into an emblem of imperialism.
"Again I say, as an old-time abolition
ist who shed my blood on the battle
fields of this country, flghtinir for liberty,
i must protest against your, theory and
advice, that I should become the slave
of party by continuing to support it right
or wrong, i ne cry in tne coining cam
paign should be: 'Bryan and republican
liberty' against 'McKinley and imperial
tyrranny,' and I have every confidence
that liberty will wm." -
NEWMAN'S HORRIBLE DEATH,
Further Particulars of the Suicide
at Gold HilL
Charlotte, N. C, April 18. Particulars
oi tne suicide of Mimnir Engineer J. J
jewman a. oio uiu, in. v., by the uss
oi dynamite, reacned nere today. New
man wrote a diary before makinsr oreD-
aration to kill himself, saying that the
last entry was ten minutes before the
end. He then put his watch and diary
nicy yaras away and went into nis office,
tied five sticks of dynamite together, laid
himself upon the floor, pat the explosive
upon his breast and lit the fuse. The
explosion tore his head from the body,
blew one arm fltty yards . away and
wrecked the building. In his diary New-
man requested that his remains be in
terred without a coffin at the foot of
certain large tree in the neighborhood
His request, it is said, will be carried out.
Newman was a well known mininar en
gineer and a brother of President Walter
George. Newman of , the .Union Copper
Mining company, which Has extensive
works at Gold Hill, N. C.
Useless Expenditures.
KaleigftPast
One of the most cost v luxuries that
the McKinley administration has devel
oped is the commission, hijrh tointed and
disjointed. ; Hundreds of thousands of
dollars of the people's money, have been
spent on these new institutions, a large
majority oi taem created as BUDtenucres.
to trifle with and fool the people at their
expense, we defy any one in this or any
other nation on earth to show one oar-
ticle of good rendered either this country
or the Philippines by the first-Bchurman
commission. Yet the following- is the
itemized statement of the cost of that
unket as rendered by the president him
self to congress: - . x - "- v
Uompensation of f 10,000 each to Com
missioners Schurman, Worcester and
Denby; 30,000: per diem allowance to
commissiners after their return - to the
hited States, $5,285; secretary " to the
commission (compensation $8,500; per
oiem f is,wu) f vww, transportation,
9is,Bt; nousenouid expenses In Manila,
y.zoz; clerical services, S31.701: mis
cellaneous, $14,998: Total,, $117,185,
And In addition to all this the Presi
dent recommends "that provision be
made for the payment of the naval and
military members of the commission
(Admiral Dewey and Gen. Otis) for their
services at the same rate as that paid to
other members. He says they have re
ceived nothing for their services in excess
of their regular salaries."
hy should either be paid extra? They
were at no additional expense, both were
on the ground in the performance of their
respective duties and draw a large salary.
Is thtre no limit to the patience of the
taxpayers? There seems to be none to
the wastefulness of their taxes by the Re
publican admizistratiori.
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A FEMININE FAILING.
Dinlonltr Many of the 8x Ilav
Telenor Rlsbt From Left.
l saw by a paper Inst week that a
colored woman was excluded from tes
tifying In court because Bhe didn'
know her right hand from her left and
was therefore esteemed too Ignorant
for her evidence to be of any value,'
said an observant man yesterday
"Now. do you know I don't believe one
woman out of eIx knows her tight
hand from her left without stopping
to consider the matter.
"I was standing in the foyer cf
theater the other day at a matinee
watching the audience, mostly femi
nine, as it passed in. Well, each mal
handed her chock to the usher, and he
called out '-First door to the right or
'Second door to the left, as the case
might be. With hardly an exception
those girls turned In the wrong direc
tion: then they'd pause to consider, ex
claim, 'We're going the wrong way
and .skurry back again..
. "This happened so often that I spoke
to the usher about it.
" 'They always do it,' he replied ,1a
conically. 'I usually point so they'll
know the way. but I've neglected to do
that today. They're all light If they
stop to think, but they never do think.
"I myself know an intelligent young
woman who has to make a little mo
tion ns if she .were writing with both
bauds before she can determine the
right one, and she declares that all her
acquaintances are affected In like moa
ner, so perhaps this is a general femi
nine failing, and the colored witness
was unjustly excluded." Baltimore
News.
; Saved the Bnuk'i Bfonef, v
' -vvnenever I buy anytlilng." once
said Russell Sago in telling the story,
"I make it a rale to talk with the sales
man, I am a member of a great many
different boards of directors in a great
many lines of investment, and I often
find this information of great service,
Some time ago I went Into a ; large
clothing store to buy a suit of clothes
at a low, price that I had seen adver
tised.;! bought the clothes for $14,
think, and In talking with the clerk
found the lot had been sent to his stow
from a big manufacturing concern to
be sold on commission, t got them for
less than cost Now, I hove kept
general store and understand that bus!
ness, and there Is no money In that
sort of thing. .
"A few weeks aterwaft this menu
facturing concern applied to one of the"
banks I am connected with for a large
loan. Their credit was apparently all
right, but on the strength of what I
had learned I ifeld up that loan, and
snort time later tne concern raited--
Saturday Evening Post.
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There are iu Montana sapphires of
beauty and value, tint they have never
beenvs systeniaticallyworked as have
Deen tne sappnires ot tne orient. , True.
they are light In color, but they have
more-1 brilliancy than the Asian sap
pnires ana orten exmoit aicnorism. or
double coIot under ' different lights!
The supposition that a sapphire should
be dark line is possibly responsible for
the slowness of their ftcctsAance In the
market,, mi? as n insttter of fact sap
phires a it not of necessity bhie- they
are giwn. yellow. . purple, white, and
when tlipy are red n't calf them rubies.
for the -rub? and samphire are Identical
ly tnp'-'sniee. sa viv; ro$ a fractlqa of a
per. cen t oT colorl ng m attt.--Brooklyn
Eagle.
Different fVrfnt of View. .
Mr. uroweiis wnat: xou want a
new DonnetT wny. i tnmc tne one
you have Is very becoming.
Mrs. urowells ICS, njw so do the
neighbors. They tiInK.if fs becoming
very ancient and decTeriit Chicago
cm a.
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' A QueatiOf of MwmfMK
Man kr dlstingurlsluii frtrn ritg UeajSI
oy tne power to speak Ufa thoughts:
th beast from the- m ($ the power
ro-lieep, its thoughts to IfXelf, Detroit
Journal. ' '.
v Question Answered.
Yes, August Flowef still hasthelarsest
ntwo w auy iaeuiuiiB m cueci viiizeu world.
i our mothers and trrandm others 'never
thoHght of using anything else for Indi
gestion or Biliousness. Doctors were
scarce, and they seldom heard of Appen
dicitis. Nervous Prostration, of Heart
ailure, etc. They used Anzust Flower
to clean out the system and stop fer
mentation of undigested food, regulate
the action of" the liver, stimulate the
nervous and organic action of the sys
tem, and that is all they took when feel
ing cull and bad with headaches and
other aohes. You only need a few doses
of Grin's Acgst Floier, ja liquid form,
to make you tatf.ei tLcre is notLLmr
viz3 the matte r villi roi For ttie
ty Tc; :ZLzr. t ;a Irr,i Co.
STATE HEWS. .
Interesting North Carolina Item
In Condensed Form.
At Oxford, Thursday. Horner 8chool
beat Oak Ridge badly playing baseball,
score 9 to 1 . .
The Southerner says that leading capi
tiiliHto will build a $20,000 cotton mill
at Tarboro.
Tliere are 200 newspapers in North '
Carolina, and none of them are declaring
dangerously largw dividends, soys an ex.
change.
The secretary of the State board of
health says lielooks for a rpread of
snialljMix this year by reason of the large
political OHsemblaged.
Robert L. Lydie, of Haywood county,
was murdered and robled lat Thursday .
night ou "So,". near the Indian Train
ing School at Cherokee, by some Cherokee
Indians.
' The' .Republican convention of Edge- .
combe county met at Tarboro Thursday.
The Southerner says it wan a forlorn set
of Republicans, only about 23 beinir Pres
ent and all negroes. : - ..
Miss Eh t her Ransom, daughter of Gen.
Matt W. Ransom, will be sponsor at the
reunion of the United Confederate Vet
erans for the North Carolina division at '
Louisville, Ky., in May.
Aycock spoke to nearly 3.000 people
Thursday at Asheville. Luke warm Dem
ocrats were aroused to a sense of dutv.
aud some Republicans were converted in
favor of the amend nint.
Pat Singleton, an escaped convict from
the North Carolina penitentiary, where he
was sentenced to serve 80'' years, was
caught Wednesday In Portsmouth, Va.,
and taken to Raleigh Thursday,
Hickory Times-Mercury: On the 5th
instant there was born to Mr. and Mrs.
B. P. Bass another fine daughter This -makes
five children born to them in April.
and they are all girls, too. The dates are
as follows: 3d, 4th, 5th, 13th and 25th.
Wilminirton Messenger: It is with
pleasure that The Messenger announces
that work has been begun on the splendid
James-Walker ; memorial hospital, to be
erected at a cost of $30,000 and present
ed to the city and county by Mr. James '
Walker.
A case of wholesale stealing is reported
from Mt. Olive, as having taken place on
Saturday night. The store cf Blount & '
Keel was entered, after the close of busi
ness, and 20 suits of clothes, half a dozen "
white shirts and half a dozen watches
were carried off. '
Rocky Mount Argonaut: In traveling
through Nash and Edgecombe counties
we have not noticed a single new tobacco
bam going up. From all indications we
should , judge that the tobacco crop in
this section will be reduced at least 25
per cent, this season.
Henderson Herald: Rev. J. D. Hufham.
P.D., who has for a number of years been
pastor of the Baptist church in this city.
at the morning service yesterday tender
ed bis resignation, to take effect Septem
ber 1st. 11 h resigned on account of a.
general decline in health. ' .
At Hope Mills, near Favetteville. Miss;
Fortner, aged 16 years, while lighting a ;
fire in the kitchin, ignited her clothings
and in an; instant was enveloped in
flames; In her agony and terror she
dashed out of doors and ran here and
there, until she fell, literally burned to
death. v .-
There was an unusual case in Louis- -
burg Wednesday.' In the superior court;
there was a suit for divorce, in which
the plaintiff was granted a divorce, with
the right to resume her maiden name.
Within an hour afterwards she had mar
ried one of the jurors who had helped to
grant the divorce. She thus, in one day,
was entitled to use three different names.
The first train from Jacksonville, Fla.,
over the seaboard s new line, passed
through Raleigh early Thursday morn
ing. The train was a special, made no of
six Pullman cars, and it carried winter
tourists, who have been spending the
winter in Florida, direct to New YorJt.
The movement of )thia train marked the
opening of another big trunk line which
links the north and the south.
In the coming Confederate reunibn at
Louisville, Ky., a company of 30 Chero
kee Indians, from their reservation near
Asheville, N. C, will particibate. faiev
constitute the remnant of a conroanv
which served with conspicuous br&vrr
during the entire four years of the civil '
war, as a part of Gen. Thomas Western
North Carolina brigade. They are now
part of the fourth North Carolina brigade,
uuiteu ionieaeraie eterans.
Baxter Shem well's case was crtmed
before Judge Stevens, of the criminal -
court, at Wjnston Tuesday afternoon.
nis honor refused a motion to dischanre
Shemwell. He dismissed the habeas
corpus and remanded the defendant to
the authorities of Tennessee. Shemwell's
counsel gave notice of appeal from Judge
Stevens' decision. The defendant was
not present at the hearing and his bond
for $1,000 was forfeited.- Judgment of
nisi was given against Shemwdl and
his bondsman, Major Robert Bir'ara;
of Asheville. -
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