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'.. L 5TLJT EDOIP 11 11: it PUBLISHED EMERY, EyENING EXCEPT SUNDRY, VoL in-No. 100. KINSTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1900. Price Two Cents. GENERAL HEWS. Matter of InteW Condensed Into Brief Parmonchs. V There will be between 8,000.0004 8,500,000 oew voter in the next presi dential election. Alaska's output of gold this year Is es timated at S23.000.000. And It took about 150,000.000 to get it. Two boarding houses for non-union street railway employes at St. Loais were partially wrecked Monday morn ing by a dynamite bomb. r. -.- On account of the China troubles the PeDDerell Cotton Mills at Bedford. Maes will shut down ; for a 'while, throwing 3,000 people out of work.' - William A. 0'Neil, a brakeman on the Ohio River railroad, was knocked down and cut in two bv bis train - in front the station at Parkersburg, W. ,.Va. Monday. Senator Wellington gave the following to the Dress Monday: "1 am unalter ably and forever opposed to imperialism f which I shall fight with all my power. , I am opposed to President McKinley be- cause be has deceived me in national af faire, and I shall oppose his re-election.' Arthur Hamilton, a 'longshoreman who has been working at loading ships at Sapelo, Ga., since the beginning of the strike a week or so ago, was shot from ambush and killed at , that place Saturday nuzht. ?, jno clue to the asses ' sin has been discovered, though , the gen eral belief is that the labor troubles Jed to the killing. - - A rifle which it is said will i make the Mauser look like an old flintlock musket has been invented by a Cleveland doctor, It will shoot 700 shots a minute. A company is being organized in New York to manufacture them, and its treasurer is Mr. Flint. When loaded and the trig- irer is pulled it goes on shooting until its TOO shots are discharged, unless the soldier puts on brakes. - . WANTS A FOBOE BILL. "Pox" Person Deolarea He Will Vote for McKinley. Butler's Lieu ' tenant not Asnamed ' of Voting For Negro Abe Middleton. . Goldsboro, N. C, July 80. At Stoney Creek, Wayne county, today, Dr. J? ox Person, Populist, who is canvassing ; the (State against the amendment said: t "I am ready for a force bill and to put bayonets around every ballot box. J believe the time will come when GodAl mighty will send a blighting hail on the towns oi jNortn Carolina, l am not go ing to vote for Bryan. I am going to vote for McKinley." ; ' - r - He admitted that as a member of tbe legislature of 1897 he voted for Abe Mid dleton ior doorxeeper and said he was not ashamed of it. Dr. "Fox" is the man Butler has been sending about to fill his appointments He has publicly expressed what' all the so-called Populists who arecontrolled by Pntcnard , and nutier, leel. v Tbey - are Republicans from top to : bottom, ready to do the bidding of tbe Hannas and Holtons. On Thursday we will bury these fellows politically so deep they; will never . hear any trumpet call of resurrection. :'.. l.ooU Cfore Yon Leap. C:kv cjwa n time .there was a yomiv i teijm who believed what the books e'af.t Hp-'left t'.is- farm and came to tl;; givui to make his fortune and tc climb the ladder of fame. The bookr said a groat deal ji bout the ladder ol fame, so the young man exercised him- self on copybook morals and poor Rich- a m . .11. 'ii aiu i aimanac in oraer to ue uuie ic chin himself up a round at a time. - lie was especially strong on run away horses, and one day, to his grati fication, be saw a mad steed plunging . down, the crowded street. He could not see any fainting maiden attached, but still he knew this Was his oppor tunity... He sprang for the bridle, but hit the front wheel Instead and was projected with Violence Into the gut ter. Six months later, when he came out of the hospital, he was sent to the Home For the Feebleminded for try ing to stop a fire marshal In the per formance of his duty. Moral Get your opportunities label ed. Dartmouth literary. Monthly. ' Question Answered. Tes, August Flower still has the largest sle of any medicine in the civilized world. Your mothers and grandmothers rever thought of uirg any t tic g else for Indi gestion or Biliousness. Doctors wert scarce, and they seldom heard of Appen dicitis. Nervona Prostration, of Heart f.ii'.are. He. TLey Vcst Flower ticVanout the. ostein sad step fer- r,- ntauoa of cri --ted looa. rr ...it FJS- f -! -1 i'.e action of t! i ! '. : i , . r rvocs and cr:;-., a of 1 1 t ns, s. i that is all t' y t--ck wUa :i end y -Co. Ti' ALL ATE THEIR HUSBANDS. Utter Kallar of Cotly Bxperloaent . , to .Mali Spldara Weave Silk. "'As long ago as the beginning of the eighteenth century the Idea of using tbe thread that the spider spins from Its body as a substitute for the thread unwrapped from the cocoon of the sllk Cto was broached, but with ' little practk.il result. An Englishman, Mr. Colt, secured 20,000 feet of silk thread from 22 spiders In two hours. Of late some experiments have been conducted by curious pcrHons to acr tain which spider produced the best and largest quantity of silk, for it has been demonstrated that It Is an excel lent substitute for that of the silk worm. Spiders' from Paraguay and Argentina, from India, China and Aus tralia, were tried, but the best results were secured from the spiders of Mad agascar. . It was found that after laying her eggs the female spider spins most free ly. k Six of these were selected and con fined for , the . test. . From one 2,000 yards of thread wero secured In ten days;' from the second. 1,350 yards in seven days; from the third and fourth. 430 yards in four days; from the fifth, 1,400 yards In 11 days, and from the sixth, 4,200 yards In 27 days. A German manufacturer was so de lighted . f 1th this test that he made elaborate arrangements for having spider Bilk mill. Importing a large nmn ber of the , spiders 1 from Madagascar to Germany. All went well until the females had laid their eggs and be gun to spin, when all at once tbe males were found to have disappeared. Their larger feminine companions had grown so fond of them that each female spl der had eateii her mate. This catas trophe ended the costly experiment- Washington Post. Alex Surprised Them. Alexander MacArthur, ' author of a successful study of life in-the Latin quarter of Paris, which brought to the writer both popularity and profit. Is also the pupil . and biographer- -of - Ru binstein. The . author lived for two years in St Petersburg, corresponding for the London press und taking part in some thrilling adventures, but the most singular of the writer's experi ences happened in cnicago niter tne novel had been brought out by a pub lisher of that city' The book had been so successful that the publisher decid ed to give the author a dinner, to which a dozen of the leading men of letters In the lake city were Invited. The guests had assembled when the author was announced. Through the blue haze , of smoke there appeared a .handsome .young wor man attired In evening dress. - "We nre expecting Jtlr MacArthur,' said - the host. "Mr. - Alexander -. Mac- Arthur, the novelist" : , , ; , "So 1 understand,", returned the ub expected truest. "I am Alexander Mae- Arthur." -.; -;-vV- y-, ':..( "Tour gasped the publisher. : v- "Yes Dlda't rou know? I am Lil lian MacArthur, at r your service.. , I have been writing over the name fOf Alesander ever since I left my home in -Dublin." v,- .:w It "was only the work of a minute to rearrange matters, and the dinner .was a great success. Saturday jsvenmg Post,, ' . . . . 1 . ' . f" - Cattlemaa oY'damoior.' On day last fall," said a well Caown Montana capitalist "I was rid log on a train la my state and got to be on pretty fair terms with the train boy ty buying a few of the things he had to sell. It was not a very formal kind el a train,- and when the boy bad fin Itbed his rounds he. came over to sit with me and 'hln a bit' as he said. I was willing enough, as he was a sharp lad and there was nobody else to talk to, and he went right at things. "'Do you know,' ne eald, that I can tell by looking at a man mighty near what be Is. Now, there's that fellow ever there in the corner; he's a Chicago trimmer. I can tell him by the wty he lets his money go and tbe flip style Le has when he talks to people. And that chap over there with the silk hat en; he's a preacher from a country town, I'm dead sure, and I'll go ask t'.zx if you say so.' 'I didn't say so because I didn't care continental and the boy went on with Lis descriptions of tbe pet-pie, on tte train. At last I asLed kirn what te ttccgtt I wos.v I tad en a pretty f.:Ly tc!t cf l'.-Lt stuS and wai ttlnk- r I lxUz 7 rrctJ" wtl!, f I trt v:;..:: to rut ti.e toy s venture, lie '. 1 ce oTcr for a full minute very -tTzMr. ' ! 1 "" ", 1 f !J ct la?t. "you'Te get s ! ; -. 1 :t I Ha t (I a 1 f"t .'. . r j - c -3 a catt'.cr.sa ct a g:n- THE FOBEIQNER9 SAFE. All Doubt Removed by Message From Britiah Minister. Their Successful Resistance Up to July 21st Announced. - s London, July 81, 1:05 a. m. Tlie ad miralty has made public tlie following dispatch from Rear Admiral Bunco at Tien Tein: ,-; . ,; ... - : "Following message has been received from Pekin: "British legation, Tekln. June 20th to July 10th were repeatedly attacked by Chinese troops on all sides, with both rifle and artillery fire.' Kince July lGth an armistice, but a cordon is strictly drawn on both .ftidea of the 'position, Chinese barricades clcc to ours. - "All women and children are in the British legation. Casualties to dte 02 killed, including Capt tstrouts. A nam ber of wounded in hospital, including Capt. Ilaliday. Rest of legation all well except David Oliphant and warren, killed July 21st. "MacDoSald." Sir Claude MacDonald's welcome dis patch dated Pekin, and received in cipher, is accepted on ail sides as dispelling any doubts that might still have existed re garding the genuineness of thedispatches. Owing to an error, in transmission .the message fails to show the number of wounded. Mess. Oliphant and Warren were two student interpreters. The message fails to mention ; the legations and other mattersof strikingitnportance, but it should be borne in mind that the British minister may not be aware that all his previous dispatches have been suppressed. ' He may be under the im pression that the government is fully posted regarding all recent occurrences Washington. July 30. The secretary of state received at midnight lost night, a dispatch from Mr. Fowler, consul at Che Foe dated noon, July 29th. Mr, Fowler says: v i o f i v. ; "A letter from the German legation dated 21st instant has been received at Tien Tsin. The German loss is ten dead and twelve wounded. TheChineseceased their attack on the 12th. Baron von Kettelef's bod v is said to be, safe. The Austrian. Italian. Dutch and Snanish legations were destroyed and the French partially. ;'i x?-;.: "A letter Irom tbe Japanese legation dated the 22d arrived at .Tien Tsia on the 25th. Ten batteries of Chinese shelled the legations consecutively from the 20th of June and stopped on the 17th of July, but may renew. The enemy are decreas ing. Tbe Uerman, uussian, wntisn and half the Japanese and French legations are still . defended. The Japanese say they have food for six days, but little ammunition. ' The emperor and empress are reported at Pekin." . ANGLO-AMERICANS KILL 1,000. Great Slaughter of Chinese in Pe kin by United States and British Guards. ' ' ; .'. ". Tien Tsin. July 22, via Shanghai, July 80. The latest - advices from Pekin, un der date of July 15, say that the. lega-1 tions are holding out. The Chinese at tacked the legations on tbe mgbt of July 10, but were led into a trap by the Amer icans and British and 1,000 of them were killed. Afterwards they continued bom barding the legations more freely. Among the Chinese killed was Gen. Ma. The le gations were subsequently attacked with constantly increasing fury. Allies Now' Advancing on Pekin. .Washington. .July 81. The war de- fartment today received a cablegram rora Gen. Chaffee stating that the ad vance on Pekin begins today. - ..-' Religion and Politics. ! ; NcarfrOtarver. . . - - A Black-and-Tan orator In Durham is authority for the statement that there is not enougn religion in the Democratic party to fry a bird s eye. Without stopping! to aekwby anybody bouId wish to fry a bird's eye, we might ask in hat party religion is to be found. Ninety-nine out of every hundred preach ers are Democrat and a larger propor tion of tbe women believe in the Demo cratic party. Tbey are popularly sup posed to have the lion's share of the re ligion of the country, if so", then the Democratic party is a very religious in stitution;' -. ' Te Cars a Csltf One Oay Taka LaJCATnrt Bkomo Qvnmr Tablst. All dnccMtt rafnnd ib aoMt if it fail to car. K. W. ()ior utn k H mc1' bw. tsc. Put Negro Above VTtite Man. High Point, N.C.. July R0.-A.H. Price. McKinley elector, spoke here Saturday niffht. In the course of his spw"h, price, addressing the npgroee.sni 1 tbey were as rood citiiens a tbe Ll; people and better laborers than tbe wLite people. Ibe tvevch care great on.'nse to the inte'l'nt white mn brewbo are the best laitorrrs in tte world, and made 50 f otes for the Democratic party. Jamrs Sweeney, a section foreman, was run over ua I k.,i by a irp;zht a:a W"r Apberi::e Sunday mominz. lis was drunk. ' V. lr t rr-tt peo; 'a wantis srrr-thir-r " 1 r rt! w La in need cf a ; 1 r., .:a' tior.ca and Lm rT,.l- t :i to a dot.. TfcfT f -y '- i i'- a--t int"tt! .I'c-r -.. " I f u t : - t ' j J. , "THE JUDGE'S ADVICE. SJlven to Ham Who WsTorod Bo t ' (wmb Kellvlom and Polities. ; A well known ' western ' representa tive in congress, pleading an engage ment, left a small group of talkers In au up town hotel lobby, and an elderly man., whom be had Introduced to tb party, made bold to tell a story about the departed. , . , ,J "I have known him," he said, "ever since he was a boy,, and when le came out of college he was undecided wheth er to become a lawyer and politician or go to a theological seminary and be come a clergyman. He was fond of politics and thought that with a little law and more religion on tbe. side he might become a gnot moral .reformer. Yen knww that's the way most all very young men fevl when tbey undertake politics for the first time. "However; before he had bad time' to determine finally what he wojild ' do, his friends t-ame after him to run for the legislature, as he had Unavaila bility end a pretty fair amount of cash. Th,a brought him face to fait' with the questiou - he had been in uch dis turbed over, and he went to Judge Blank, a veteran In politics and a innh of tbo highest character, for assistance in solving the problem. He stated bis ease In full to the judge,4 and the grand old man put his bund on tbe young man's shoulder. "My boy.' be said, as only he could say it, 'it can't be politics and religion. It'iuust be one or the other. You can't fit yourself for heaven and for the leg islature nt the same time, and there's no use trying. That Is all 1 can say, and you will have to make your own choice.' "Washington Star. - A KAFFIR SMOKER. The Kntlve Women Aro Enthualaatle .' Ueroteca of tbo Weed. In 'South Africa ; the native women smoke Incessantly,' Vour native serv ant stuokes as she cooks' and as she wasUi?s. '.The tobacco she likes is rank. The dainty cigarette an English - or Uusslan lady of fashion enjoys, smoked through a quill so that no nicotine can stain either teeth or fingers, would te sneered at by a Kaffir. "Give me a pipe and something In it I can taste." Is in effect what she says. 4 ' : r The men Kaffirs are beyoud tobacco, They smoke something so vehement that It makes them cough nnd splutter. lose their breath, choke and sneeze to an alarming degree. They like snuff. too. and are fond of offering and taking pinches of , It ("schnlff" tbey call 10 when they meet and visit one another. '" Regarding tobacco ns too mild for their taste, the Kaffirs take another weed and smoke that. They proceed to arrange a smoking party' by squat tins on the ground and getting readv their "pipe." h cow horn with a thin tube in It iuserted half way down at right angles to the horn. The end of the tube Is In a basin, nnd It Is from It that tbe smoker sucks the strong stuff that makes him Incapable of anything but a series of coughs nnd chokes for some time after he has had bis turn at the pipe.: which Is passed round from man to man until a perfect chbrus of coughs rends the air. " ' : Tbe tobacco the Boers smokefooks like poop tea nnd Is peculiar In flavor, yet Englishmen who have become used to It acquire such a taste for It thnt they never ask for any other kind. London MalL . ' Klekaamed br Architects. These young architects are mercllesi chaps when they are discussing the work of some one else. The spire cf one of the new churches in Boston al ways attracts my attention. '. Away np aloft there are angels, gracefully poised, each with a trumpet at mouth and leaning far out on the air that swims around them. I have 'admired that group most mightily. I was com menting In that strain In tbe bearing of a Boston architect. . . . "Of what church are you gpeaklngT" queried tbe architect. I told him. "Oh, yes." . said be carelessly, "the Church of the Holy Beanblowcrs. That's what comes of lack of sense of proportion. Those trumps are too slender." And now 1 can no longer admire that seraphic group on the spire. I strive to think of angels, and I fetch up hy thinking of beanblowcrs. - And anotber church la Boston Is In arcMtects' terms the "Church of tbe noly Thermometer" on account cf some decoration nieant to be Imposing. And another Is tbe "Church of tbe K:rj.3crp"!rtcn Stooj -les for there U me II; t; !re sun-unruled t y lots cf lit-t',-3 I'J ; !r. s "walf.rs to grow," say tie rcl.'tftii:ral rLstlnes. Lew! t n J.-::: .1. STATE HEWS. Zntorestinff ' North Carolina Item In Condensed Form. ' ' The 0-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Woodard, of Greensboro, met a hor ribly death Monday by a pile of lumber falling on him, The stables of J. T. Bolton, a pros perous famer of Northampton county were destroyed by an incendiary, fire ' Saturday night, together with 75 mules and one horse. .. , ' ; There was a tremendous rally at Ashe ville Monday night and a torchlight pro cession in which 1,200 torches were lit. As tbe procession was passing South Main street a negro shot in it and wounded a white blacksmith in the leg. The negro ran but was recognizod and will probably be caught and punished. At Wilkesboro Senator Pritchard was booked to speak Tuesday, lie didn't appeur. Many Republicans were there to meet him, aud among them were 100 ne groes on horseback, who wanted to go in the parade. The white Republicans had a conference and decided to ask the negroes to keep out of the parade. This made the negroes violently angry.. ,Lumberton Itobesonian: A letter re ceived here from Columbus county con tains very encouraging news for Dem ocrats. The Populist nominees for sheriff, coroner and one county commissioner have come off the ticket and are in the field actively at work for the Democratic ticket. -Chairman J. A. Brown promises LOOO majority for the amendment in Columbus. '- It was learned at Democratic head quarters at Italeigh, Monday evening that tbe tusionists nave sent out bogus Dem ocratic tickets. It is not known yet how generally this has been , done, but it is known they have been sent out to Dur ham and some other counties. Secreta ry Pearsall says this is tbe lost desper ate step of the fuaionists. Telegrams of warning are being sent in all directions. High Point Enterprise: Borne time ago the Enterprise was trying to think of some line of furniture not made here and we bit upon cribs and cradles and threw out the suggestion. Mr. Homer Wheeler, secretary and treasurer, informs us that the Snow Basket Co., has put in an order for the machinery for this special line of goods and will make them in con nection with the celebrated Snow bosket. ; A young Democrat of Greensboro is in receipt of 'circular letter from Marion Butler saying: , '.'The State is safe if we . can just bold our people together a few days longer." He says it will take money to do this and asks for a contribution of 5. "By doing this," he adds, "you will be striking a blow for human liberty and the rights of the people." Butler adds that he is at the end of his row, and unless the people come to his relief tbe State maybe lost. .. Salisbury Sun:v Mr. 8, M. Thomas, a prosperous farmer of Scotland county, tells tbe Charlotte Observer that an in sect has made its appearance in the cot ton in the Scotland section; a small red. spider, active and destructive in its work. These insects settle under the bottom of a leaf and eat it entirely up, and the plant stops growing, being dead to al) purposes. Mr. Thomas fears much dam- . age from the insects unless it can be ef fectually dealt with. : Winston Sentinel: Miss Kate Hilton was shot and dangerously wounded by her brother late yesterday afternoon. Tbe family reside at Silver nil!, beyond the Davis school. It was claimed that the shooting was accidental. The sister was standing at a .table ironing.' The brother was standing near her "fooling" with his old pistol, when it fired, the ball taking effect under -the girl's right shoulder blade. It jsadangerons wound and it is feared that it will prove fatal. The ball has not been found. - Chairman Simmons received the follow ing letter Tuesday from the U. 8. civil service commission: "Vour communica- , tion was duly received, dated July 23, with regard to the activity of federal office holders in North Carolina in the State campaign. An earlier ackowledgment would have been made hut it was ei pected that the affidavits to which yon refer would shortly arrive. Immediately upon the receiDt of these affidavits the commis sion will give the matter its earnest at tention, l be affidavit are coming In rapidly. A large batch will be sent. Wilmington Stan Mr. Thomas W. Jackson, of Atlanta, G a., who bas been visiting Mr. Thomas W. Thompson, at South port, related to a Star reporter yesterday a rare experience with a 100 pound shark. bile out fishing Thurs day afternoon in the bay at Southport with several friends, be suddenly found that he had a larger fish on his hook that be bad bargained for. He soon dis covered that be had a shark to contend with. The monster assumed a very pug nacious disposition at once and for a while it seemed that the occupants of tbe loat wou' i Le thrown into the d(p. I!ut fna'ly, alter a bard Btrvrrie, be man.Tl to pu'J the fbark within ten ffet r 1 t!i? Inat and hot it with Lis ris- tol, then' y cr ',r ; ti e fan. WUte's. I " . tcttle for L It cures rail. . .
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