THE DAILY FREE PRE
PUBLISHED. EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDRY,
Vol. m-No. 37.
KINSTON, N. C, SATUEDAY. MAY 19, 1900
Price Two Cento.
GENERAL HEWS.
Matters of Interest Condensed Into
Brief Paragraphs.
Russia continue her aggressive course
in Korean matters.
The boiler of a torpedo boat exploded
at St. Petersburg Thursday, killing six
persons. '-'':;,.;5,;.p v''&sjiUiK
The anti-foreign feeling in China is in
. creasing, and in some sections the situa-
tion has become very serious. Seventy
native Christians have been killed recently
in one district. . v ; :-. , . : v,
' MaryBrannigan, 24-year-old clerk in a
New York department store, was shot
and killed Wednesday by Edward Hall.
The girl had refused tomarry Hall, which
caused him to kill her;:.. v
Gov. Smith, of Montana, Friday after
noon named Martin Maginnis as United
States senator to succeed Wm, A. Clark.
But Acting Gov. Grigg, in the absence of
Gov. Smith, appointed Clark to. succeed
himself. . '
The'bouse, in committee of the whole
Friday, favorably acted upon a bill to
appropriate f 200,000 to pay ex-Confederate
soldiers for horses and other prop
erty taken from them, in violation of the
J terms of Gen. Lee's surrender to Grant at
Appomattox. This is the first bill favor
ably acted upon since the civil war to pay
Confederates for property taken from
them. ' -
, A dispatch from Stockholm, Sweden,
brings the news of an awful tragedy on
'' board the Swedish steamer Prince Charles.
" A madman took possession of the boat,
Bhot five passengers dead, then killed the
captain and wounded six of the crew
who tried to overcome him. The passen
gers and crew finally left the deck to the
maniac, who lowered a boat and rowed
away.
It appears from late mail advices from
Manila that the officials of Bilibid prison
at Manila are under investigation on a
, charge of exchanging and releasing pris
oners and receiving bribes. It is alleged
' that prisoners, were freely exchanged:
that natives - with money were allowed
, to employ substitutes to serve their term
and that various other forms of corrup
tion existed. r--t
The usual South American revolution
is on.' The revolution is in .Colombia.
News from Colon tells of a victory by the
government. troops over the insurgents
in a battle which began May 11th and
lasted 70 hours. Gens. Leal and Herrera
were among the killed, who are said to
have been very numerous, the Slaughter
being described as "horrible butchery."
; Twelve hundred insurgents were taken
prisoners. ' " . " ' "
Clark's Shrewd Move.. '
Charlotte Observer. , V
That was a shrewd move on the part
of Senator Clark, of Montana, In resign
, ing his seat, in the United States senate
while the governor of the state a Mar-
' . ona TIaIv mnnTCAQ n.hannt in ClAlifornia.
and immediately accepting an appoint
ment from the acting governor a Clark
adherent. -The senate committee on
grivileges and elections had decided that
lark was not eiftitled to his seat, and
the senate was just about to consider the
committed report, and would perhaps
have unseated the' Montana man. Now
be holds his seat by appointment and not
by dubious and fraudulent legislative
election. It was a shrewd move on the
checker board of politics, but it will pot
make Senator Clark any more an honest
man or any lees a bribe-giver and vote-
buyer.
Too know all about
' it. The rush, the
worry, the ex
haustion. You
go about with a
creat weight rest-
in? noon vou. You
can't throw off thisfeel-
tag. You are a slave to
your work. Sleep fails, and
you are on the verge or
nervous exhtustion. Vest 13
t3 be done? Tate
V
Tcr T.'rr yc-ra it his teen li.'Jr;
tp the d.szo'cngti, f'vin rest to
t: ; overworked, and trir;.;r re-f.-thip
fleep to the depressed.
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WAV
TOTAL ECLIPSE, OF THE BUN
A Superb Spectacle to Be Wit
nessed by the People of the South
pnMay28.
On May 28th the people of the south
ern states will have the rare ODDortunitv
to see the most superb spectacle within
the wnoie range ol natural phenomena:
a total eclipse of the sun. The ordinary
observer will see it best without instru
ments of any kind, and the grandeur and
beauty of the sight will linger in his
memory for years. To the , professional
astronomer seeking the solution of im-:
portant and difficult problems connected
with tne mysterious structure and com
position of the sun, the event will be one
of intense interest, and will demand the
utmost skill in the use of the - most deli
cate and powerful instruments known to
modern astronomical science. The most
important observatories throughout the
world will be prepared to study the
eclipse from points .of vantage in , the
United States or Africa. . .
. The moon, an opaque ' body shining
only by reflected light, is always accom
panied by a conical shadow over 240,000
miles long; when our satellite passes ex
actly between the sun and the earth, the
snadow sweeps over the earth's surface
in a curved path. That the time of oc
currence of an eclipse and the location of
the course of the shadow can be so accu
rately predicted is one of the wonders of
mathematics. To an observer within
the shadow the sun is completely hidden
and the eclipse is total. The path of
totality on May 28th, 1900, begins , in
the Pacific ocean west of Mexico, passes
across Mexico, and enters the ' United
States at New Orleans at 7:30 a. m. It
then proceeds in a northeasterly direc
tion over Mobile, Montgomery and , Ral
eigh, and leaves the United States near
Norfolk, Va., at 8:53 a. m. After a long
journey over the Atlantic, it touches
Portugal, crosses northern Africa, and
finally leaves the earth at the north end
of the Bed sea. The duration of the total
phase varies from about one minute and
twelve seconds at New Orleans to one
minute and forty-two seconds at Norfolk,
and all the astronomical work must be
accomplished during that brief period, v
' The sun is an ; immense globe of fire;
not as we see it through dense haze at
sunset, with: sharply defined outline,
but in reality, possessing streamers or
appendages extending millions', of miles
beyond its surface. These streamers are
only visible during a total eclipse of the
sun, and constitute the "corona." The
approach of the moment of totality is
extremely impressive. The color of day
light changes, darkness increases grad
ually; the jot-black outline of the , moon
encroaches on the dazzling disk of the
sun until only a rapidly diminishing cres
cent of light remains. As long as even a
hair's breadth of this crescent exists, the
corona is invisible, but presently a black
shadow is seen to approach swiftly over
the surface of the earth, the sunlight com
pletely disappears, and, as it at the. com
mand of Borne weird spirit, in an instant
the corona bursts into view, magnificent
in extent, indescribable in beauty and
impressive beyond compare. .
' Out Year In Indiana.
Nwt-Observer. ''"":'.'
. The people of Indiana are determined
to keep their state, pivoted: It gives the
state power and patronage, for one
thing, and otherwise makes foritsdis
tinction and prosperity. -In one cam
paign the use of "soap" there became a
national scandal, in another ''blocks of
five" was the particular form bribery
took, and in 1896 Hanna carpeted the
state with silver dollars. But like Oliver
Twist the floaters in Indiana are always
ready to say, "Please, sir, I want some
more." No matter ho w much money has
been spent and no matter what the
issues, Indiana has not twice successively
given its electorial vote to the same
Sarty, as this statement taken from the
ew York World shows:
Majority.
1872 Grant, Republican.. .:.....22,515
1876 Tilden, Democrat 5,515
18S0 Garfield, Eepublican.........6,641
1884 Cleveland, Democrat..-.....6,512
1888 Harrison, Republican 2,348
1892 Cleveland, Democrat 7,125
1896 McKinley, Republican 18,181
This statement also shows that the
majority either way is not large. The
apparent majority in 1896 was not real.
It was procured by corrupting election
officers in tbe chief cities. This year the
Democrats will be on their guard, and,
anyhow, it is fore-ordained and decreed,
judging the future by the past, that the
electorial vote of Indiana will be cast for
the Democratic candidate for president.
Tlack Death" Cpreadin la Aus
- trail a.
Fydney, N. S. TT.. May 17. Two hun
divd and thirty-five ca9 of the bubonic
r!.ijfl have thus fir teen oLicia..v re
ported. Of the5e 70 bare rrovel fatal
A Foetid dath froia the r'arrje has oc
curred at Kockharnrton, Q'J ns!aj:d.
r:?-srxi9BtCaa rrar.ci-ro(?).
f -n Trnzc'-.lr 17. !ent cf
the r-.ir 1 c-f i:.'-:J;b Wi":amoa 'T.
f-kel t.ir: -ht c-rr;:r t! e rrport thlt
tVre i 1 - n five d ::. !rc i t zlc
t V ii the r"-t vf- k, tr i t! at t
S th!h"iKr"; -1 it 1 .-? c:.y eu-
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HAFEKING RELIEVED
Boers Forced to Abandon the Siege
and British Belief Column Enter
Mafeiing.. British i. Expeot an
Early Close of the Wax. .
London. Mar 19. No bhsiness is beina
done on the exL-hamree toaav. - All Lon
don is wildly 'celebrating the relief of
Mafeking and the success of British arms
in South Africa. . , ,
London, May 18. 9:16 p. m. Mafeking
has been relieved. '
The dispatch of the Associated Press
announcing the relief of Mafeking was
posted outside the mansion house and
the news rapidly spread. A large crowd
collected and at this hour all the streets
iq the neighborhood are already resound
ing with cheers, 'j'-
Pretoria Gets the News.' "
Pretoria, May 18. It was officially an
nounced today that when the laagers
and forts around Mafeking had been se
verely bombarded the siege was abau
doned, a .British force; from tht south
taking possession of the place. v
President Bteyn left here lor tbe J? res
State last night. Addressing a crowd on
the platform he urged then) to be of good
cheer. , j' 'A-.-." Tfi- -i'..1-.-.v
It is reported that 5,000 British troops
have surrounded Christiania and that
the Landrost and other,; officials have
been taken prisoners. ' , .
Boers Forced to Retire.
London. May 18. 10:15 v. m. From
the mention of thetaagers in the Preto
ria dispatch it is understood here that
prior to the raising of the tiege of Mafe
king tne Joer laagers aroimu tnac piace
were vigorously bombarded by the Brit
ish relief column and than . the burghers
were practically compelled to abandon
the siege, v "
"The End Draws Near. '
London. May 18. Details of past op
erations received today tend ' to confirm
the view that tbe end of the War is with
in measureabie distance. From Kroons-
tad cbmes a story, attributed to excel
lent authority, to the effect that a "peace
party is being formed at Pretoria, while
renorts from Pretoria itself indicate dis
couragement at the recent reverses and
tbe possibility ol : an early suing lor
peace. b
Base BalL . . '
Pittsburg, 11; Philadelphia, 4.'
St. Louis, 18; New York, 5.
- STANDING OK THE CLUBB.
' 'WovLot. PerCt.
Philadelphia..... ......15 7 :.t82
Brooklyn . 14 4 7 A , .667
Pittsburg;......w.........13 ,10 563
Chicago 12 10 .545
St. Louis..... 10 .11 .470
nimdnnati........ .... 9 11 .450
New York.. 6 14 .800
Boston........................ 5 . 14 263
'- : Car of . Charms. v . " ";
I am frequently asked what shape or
patent of churn to buy, says L. S. Har
din in' Farmers' Guide. A churn should
either swing or turn with a crank in
order to reduce the labor to the mini'
mum, and tben tbe shape 'and motion
shoqld be adjusted to each other so as
to get no more and no less motion to
the cream than is necessary to get all
the butter out of the cream. Too fast
or violent or striking motion may has
ten the butter's coining, but It will
lessen theA quantity and Injure ths
grain. Too slow a motion will delay the
comipg and also lessen the quantity of
butter. In other words, there is, as
usual, a right and- a wrong . way to
churn. No- churn should be more than
half full, or, better yet, one-third full,
to get the best work from It, and this
should be remembered when buying a
churn, for its capacity Is always reck
oned by its full holding capacity,
which is not its churnlag capacity
The vital potnt with the churn Is to
keep it fresh and sweet never let the
butter or buttermilk stand in It, but
get them out and clean that churn at
once, first , with cold water and then
with water that is red hot, and wipe It
out dry with a clean cloth; then air the
churn thoroughly, but not In the sun.
where It will crack. - Keep sticking
your nose In that churn and see that it
always smells sweet, and let the butter
maker see you do It, so -be will know
you are after him. '
ActomoLIIe clul"s are sr-rlngic Irito
lire at a pace commensurate with the
adoption and epreaJ of the new loco
motion. The Actomohlle Club of Amer
ica Las its headquarters at Xew York,
and already Ch!capo, Boston, Ck'Te
Land and rtllaJiIrhla have convicted
the orjranlzatloa of clubs. The C!cve
lind club Is to t !exrt-r.t tho Enseal
!.:::.riil day ticjde track tzl real
tz? s ty ta autcochl'.e rz?
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THE CHURCHES.
Services will be held at the churches In
KJuston tomorrow as follows, to which
everybody is invited: ,
,. Methodist Church,
Morning subject: "Tbe Value of As
High Ideal for Both This and ths Life
to Come." ' - , . ....
Evening subject: "The Devil: Who He
is; Where He Came From; What He is
Doing; Where He is Going, and Who Are
Going With Him."
: Sunday school at 9:15 a.m.
Epworth League at 7:30 p. m.
' For several Sundays to come ths pas
tor specially requests a full attendance of
the members as he will read and com
ment on ourgeneral rules for five minutes
before each sermon. &
Christian Churoh. '
Morning subject: -"The Blessedness of
Those Who Hunger and Thirst After
RiKbteousne.' r
Eveuing suhjct: "The Good Confes
sion or the Olil Ti me Experience Which?"
Sunday school at 9:30 a. m,
Episoopar Church.
Services' both" morning and evening.
. Sunday school at 9:15 a.' to.
The 1U. Rnv. A. A. Watson. D.(D.: bish
op of tbe East Carolina diocesewill con
duct.aservice for 8t. Mary's congregation
Monday evening at 8:15 o'clock, and
perform th rite of confirmation. '
Services held in the grand jury room
Presbyterian Churoh.
Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. .
Baptist Churoh.
Preaching both morning and evening,
Sunday school at 9:15 a. m.
, B. Y. I U. meets Monday evening.
The Chapel,
i Sunday school at 9 a."m. ' .
Preaching in the afternoon. . "
t Prayer meeting every Friday, night. ;:
Christian Scienoe.
t Services every Sunday mornlngvat 11
o'clock in the opera house.
In Memoriam.
- . . WILUAM HENRV MAT.
NlWBIRX CiMP )
, United Cohfedbbati Veterans,
May, 10, 1900. J
: Comrades: The God" of .battles 'has
called from the strife of this world to a
peaceful rest, beyond the river, our be
loved menu and leilow soldier, jviliiam
Henry May.- - V; f:-r
He served with distinction as a member
of Company, H. Seventh North Carolina
cavalry; w. -.r;.iMl -y
William Mh ' was a man, the rememem
brance f whse ' life, brings to us
thoughts of most affectionate ad oif ra
tion, si':;,:: . 5
As a' soldier, he showed such qualities
as men oi gentle mxnners show on every
fields r.:?v'i. '. v
The KntWt hearr, the finest coaraare.
the, tender nff tion which bound those
win) w ere near u him by ties of blood or
fiieiidfhip.4rveii tlw Reuerous impulses
which moved ms noble epirltand inspired
their fond devotion. " : , ; ' -
Itesolved, That in tin death of our
comrade h llliarn H. May. we part with a
friend-kind, Joyal and bi ave, whoso
going hence reminds us that we too will
soon end our struggle here and follow
him to the silent land. e
Besolved, That, this camp tenders to
the loved ones whom onr comrade leaves
our affectionate sympathy, and tender
condolence in their great sorrow. May
God keep them in this world, and grant
to him everlasting life. ,
Besolved, That a copy of this memorial
be sent to the family, and our comrades,
and be published in the Daily and Weekly
Journal and Newborn Democrat, v , -:
, ,i . W. R. Babrinqton, '
E. H: Meadows, .
Matt Manly.
NEW TOBACCO COMPANY.
The International Organized With
a Capital of $25,000,000.
New York, liay 17. The formation of
the new opposition tobacco eompany has
been practically completed, and articles
of incorporation will be filed at Trenton,
N. J., within a few days. Tbe new con
cern will be known as tbe International
Tobacco company."
It will t incorporated under the laws
of New Jersey, with a capital ofj $23,
000,000, consisting of 125,000 shares 6
per cent.. non cumulative preferred stock
and an equal number of shares of com
mon stock, all of the par value of $100
each. There will be no bonded debt.
Question Answered."
Yes, August Flower still has the largest
sale cf any medicine in the civilised world.
Your mothers and grandmothers never
thought of uring anything else for Indi
gstion or tiliousness. Doctors were
scarce, and they sf!dom.Leaxd of Arpen
didtia. Nervous Prostration, of Heart
failure, ttc Tbey used Vugust Flower
to clean out the system and stop fer
mentation of undg-ofted food, regulate
the action of the liver, stimulate the
nervous end organic action of the pys-t-n,
i that is all tl.py took when fetl-ir-
dull and ai with headaches and
ct r r, !.'. You on'y 1 a Jw dof--s
cf tr - a's August l iowpr, ia 1. ;uiJ f.-rra.
ti r ".ieroa sa: -! th-Te i. r.oth;:
f- r t .er-.att. r w .vi you. Icr s.v
ty Tt;:-J.:ir:-:3 iTt Co.
STATE . HEWS.
Interesting: North Carolina Items
In Condensed Form,
. The Sampson Democrat says the pros
pect is good for a fair crop of huckleberries
in that county this year. The crop will .
not be a full one, but better than last
year's.
Rev. John E. White has declined the i
presidency of the BaptUt Female Univer
sity, which was tendered him two weeks
ago by unanimous vote of the board of
trustees. ,
Congressman Atwater has introduced ; 1 :
a bill in congress to macadamize tbe fed
eral road from tbe national cemetery to -the
capitol building in Baleigh. An ap-
propnation oi fiu,uuu is asKed.
Editor Bailey, of the Biblical Recorder, - ,
has just returned from ihe Southern
Baptist convention at Little Bock, Ark.
He says the Baptist women of North
Carolina led those of all the states in the
matter of money collections. - . -
Sampson Democrat: A rather novel
mlarriage took place on Sunday, May
6th, in Piney Grove township. The con- 1
tracting parties being Mr. Robert At
kinson, a Veteran of seventyight, and
Mrs. Martha Parkerr of sixty summers -. ;
The town council of SnowHilL has ,
passed an ordinance requiring all' stores
and other business houses to close their . 4
doors promptly at 9 o'clock every night
except Saturday night when they will
be allowed to remain ojwn until 11
o'clock. s ' - -
Chatham Record: Wre are reliably in
formed that only four whites and nine '
negroes wert present at one nf the recent
meetings held by the Fuwiouints in the.'
western part of thin county, at which
speeches were made by two ot the court
house ring.
Representative Thomas has secured
favorable action by the house, in com-"
mittee of the- whole, on his bill for the re-'
lief of St. John's Masonic lodge, of New-
bern, for damage done their building by . '
Federal troops during the civil war. Ths
bill carries an appropriation, of 16.000. . , X
Th gavel "which is to be ued by the ;
presiding officer of the Republican na--' ;
tional convention at Philadelphia is to
be composed of pieces of wood of histori- 1 ' .
cal interest from the various states. The .
piece from North Carolina is, from the
quaint litt le house, in Raleigli in which '
Prtwideiit Andrew Johnson was born. s,
. Dr. Richard II. Lewif, Hecretar.v to the v
State Umrd of health, liua given out
some; father startling figures regarding :
the spread of srtialliiox iu North Carolina. '
Us says the epidemic beirau at Wilming-
ton January 12, 1898, the first case be- "
ing that of a negrtt riiilrond emjt'oye ,
from South Carolina. Up to Mv 1, ' ;
l99itheie were only 616 eases in the '
State. The report for April. 1900, shows
that during that mouth alone there were
' no less than 606 cases. ..
Raleigh Cor. Messenger: There are .
bets that tb Populists and Republicans
will juggle their State tickets within the
next two weeks. The Populists say they
will not begin their regular campaign
until about June 10th. Perhaps they
are waiting to get their uniforms furnish
ed by Republican State Chairman Holton, 1
who told your correspondent in the '
spring of 1896 that be intended to uni
form the Populists and put them '. on the
flanks of his Republican forces. t.i
Charlotte News: Milas Hunter, colored.
lives at Griffiths. He has a young son
two or three years old. Some months
ago ths boy swallowed a whistle. The.
parents knew that he had swallowed it
and expected that it would ' cause him :
trouble. It did not. however, the bov
continuing in his usual health and hap-
pmess. Aionoay night he was taken
sick and in vomiting, ' threw up the
whistle. It was rusty and generally the
worse for wear. The boy was all right
next morning. , . ....'
The Republicans of the third district
held their convention at Clinton Friday
but did not nominate a candidate for
congress. White, a negro-loving Republi
can of Bladen, was- put up as elector.
There were about twelve white and thir
teen negroes in attendance. The meeting"
was controlled by tbs negroes the
whites bad to take a back seat. A negro
from Craven county was secretary. They
would not bold their convention in the
court bouse, but went out on a back -street
and held it in the negro Odd Fel-
lows' hall. The few whites that were .
there wers postmasters and office-holders :
under Russell. The postmasters at
Fayetteville, Warren and other places -were
there, but Abe Middleton controlled
them. One white Republican was heard
to say that it was the first convent'on
be ever attended that was ruled by
nejrroes, and t hat Pritchard's and Butler's
speeches in tbe senate declaring no Decxo "
domination existed in North Carolina
were untrue as to the third district.
WLs Florence Newman, who has bna
great suf!erer from muscular rheumatism,
sayChamlrlain'el'ain Balm is the only
remedy that chords her relief. Mi.M New
nsa is a much reported resident cfthe
T..la9 of Grav, N. Y., sr. J trakea this
jtaU uy-ntfor the t-Tf.t cf others eirr.i
larlv s:: ioted. This liniapat is for sale
ty j.L. IIood.d.Trr'.t.