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MARIOXX C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1807.
Price 1 Per Year, in Advance.
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Bills General, Local, But All of Some
Importance.
ARBITRATION TREATY INDORSED
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Protest iili'i I 'ina nl an Invest iga
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SENATE.
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. Mi-ii the bill- and resolution- intro
Mft'a i. v i n '(peal all law s allow
ing ll-A' l !l tiotf. and "ha'l-.
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.lil'!!i"' '" ' I'owfi to appoint until
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t ,f k ul-aioi. if 1 -aid oity aud the coun
ty vt MfckUabur. Adopted. The
f'lii-iuca "mil leave Kaleigk Friday
ni-ht anil examitiine the roads the next
Jay iSatiinlav ;.
I At the ni:rht session the Lill to pro
: liihit the use of free jia-ses of Htate ofli
j Cei s lassed second rcadin-s.
; 'i he will to oust Swmson as enrolling
. clerk 1'iisseil sei-oiid and third read
! iu'.
KitiiMY. Senate met at 11 o'clock.
I Alexatider introduced a resolution en
I doi-in;r the Woman's Jixposition at
( Inii lotte. Anion- the Litis on third
ifadin- were: To authorize Hie liniond
county to issue bonds to pay outstand
ing debt; to incorporate the Winstoii-J-al.-m
SotitliLoiiiid liailroad; to lev'
f-pt fial tax lor workin- iiuLlic roals in
tiiiilfor.l county; Lill to chaiire the
! epio triient of A-riciilture and the A.
and M. ( olbre.
The free pa-s arid fare lulls were made
special orders.
liuil.T's bill to amend chapter
Acts of ls)) p, provide for the ;eiieral
sii.er i-ion of railroad, steamboat, ex
press, t'-lo-raph and telephone compa
nies iloin- business in the State, was
ma le a special order for the li.tii.
The bill to license forei-n corpora
tions, companies or associations was
pii -sed over.
The .finite met in ni-ht session at
o'clock, 'he calendar was taken up.
Jiili passed to facilitate the trial of civil
ad ions, providiii- that no persons shall
play or eie-rne in any iiiter-oolle-iate
or other foolliall fame in which such
i Nioieiiii' is 1 1 set i or rei-pnreii ironi tlie
i.utuie of the fame as to endanger life,
bin!, or health, was tabled, liills pa-se.l
leipiirin- tin ie"i'-ii;ition of the names
of pai ii,-i s, pi ovi.lin-that iirins hav
in- siifiit partners shall 1ft their names
be known; f ivin- Vadkin two weeks
sprius term of court instead of one
week ; lvsolinioiis for thf .-ticoura-e
uifiit of fairs, llymati introduced a
bill to provide for w oinaii sutlia-e in
Nortli Carolina.
StiniHAV. Senate met at 11 o'clock.
Anion- the bills v civ :
I lay bill l elatin- to Kooky Mount
;:i if iiiture and Mechanical Associa
tion. Ilyat A 1 ill to provide an addi
tional term of court for McDowell
omit v.
Shaw -A bill to establish a normal
school in Koliesoii county.
Person To protect the lives of pris
oners or accused persons.
The followin-bills passed second and
third reading's: To amond chapter !):!
I'ri!ite Laws of Is:'.;, lelatin- to con
victs; to amend chapter TJT, Laws Isttl.",
conooriiin- thf payment of scrip,
cheeks, etc.
Hills that passed their third readin-:
To incorporate lloaiioke L'apids Com
pany, Halifax county; to stimulte taxes
in the rural districts; to authorize
Kichmoiid county to issue Lomls to
pay iiideLedtness: t amend the charter
of the Asheboro and Montgomery liail
1'. ii I Company.
IIOISK.
?I'iMv.- House met at 10 o'clock.
Anion- the bills introduced were :
Cox To reiptire ow ners of personal
property to list at its full value.
Kawls -To amend the landlord and
tenant act, chap. ((, the Code, by strik
ing out in lino "J of sec. lTol the words
"or oral."
Sutton of Cumberland To declare
bicycles to Le lin-uaire (accompanied Ly
it petition si-nod !v hundreds of Licvc
listsa. Piii -a-oti io make it a misdemeanor
to -ie or sell intoxioatiu- ii.piors to an
I atl'it iiai drunkard.
v, ral bills passed to allow several
counties of the State to extend the time
of liohlitt- court, to levy special tax, to
amend the stock law, etc.
Cox. by leave, introduced ft resolu
tion that all private pension lulls Le re
tained and acted on so as to Le incor
porated in an omuiLiis Lill. It was
adopted.
Sutton's lull cmpowerin- the Oovev
lior in extraordinary eases to convene
special courts for the trial of capital
ca-es and to also convene the Supreme
Court to hear cases, was taken up. it
was so amended ns to prov ide that the
courts shall Le convened only at the re
quest of the sherilVund the chairman of
the county commissioners of the county
in which such court is to Le convened.
Thf Lill then passed as amended.
Pill pa-se.l iiK-oi poratin-the Pankof
Preaid 'on motion of Schtilken an
amendment was adopted makin- the
charter ;iu years. )
bill to amend The Code ro-;U d ill
pa u per suit s w as tabled.
I he bill re-ardin-the f.ivin- of-uar-dians'
and administrators' bonds in se
curity companies, allowin- them to in
clude in their char-es against .'states
expenses aiuouiitin- to not over one
half of 1 percent, for the -ivin- of such
bond- pa-se.l.
Py leave. ( iriibb. introduced a bill
to elilar-e the jtti isdiottoii of magis
trates. At the niiiht session a resolution,
iiitio.biced by Hancock to abolish the
oilice of enrollin- clerk and oit-t Sw in
soii. came up and caused a hot debate
betwieli Populists and lie publicans,
the I 'emociats stood hands o!)'. The
resolution vas adopted andSwinson
v. as ousted.
liesolut on re.piestin- the North
Carolina Senators to secure a ratifica
tion of the treaty of arbitration was
adopted
P.y leave. Parker introduced a bill to
prevent minors from eliterinir bar rooms
and billiard rooms.
Ti rsifw. lioiise met at 10 o'clock.
Anion- the bills introduced wore:
White --To repeal the act of lss, to es-tHbli-h
a true liifiidiaii in the various
counties of the State for the correct re-traein-
of surveys.
I'.ddins To re.piiro deeds in trust
and mort -races to be cancelled of record
within ton days after thev have been
paid.
Cmrio In extend the corporate lim
its of Maxton.
Leak To revise the charter of Mor-
en.
Po, kery To amend the law re-ardin-
of analyses of fertilizers.
thebill to make it indictable to in
teirupta puLlio sjH-aker came up ami
caused a lively debate, and after several
amendments wasotVcred the bill passed
to a third readm-.
The calendar was thou taken up and
anion- the bills passed were:
Alte'.in- times of holdin- Superior
Courts in Mecklenburg, (iaston and
Stanly counties, makin-those in Moek-loiibur-;
sooo i Monday after first Mon
thly in Matvu, fourth Monday after first
Monday in September icachtw o weeks ;
sixth .Monday before first Monday in
March and thirteenth Monday afte- iirst
Monday in March 'each one week. I
The resolution plaein- in the hands
of the (iovenior j?l.;i0 to be applied to
the erection of a statue of (ioo. Peabody
in Statuary Hall at Washin-toii was iu
.lelinitely post joUel.
Wkonkshav. - House met at in
o'clock. Anion-the new bills were:
llartness To provide that in ease of
suit for dama-es bron-ht against a
person resident of another Mate, who
has property in this State, it can be at
tached while there is unliquidated,
ihiaia 'vs.
Mc. iiiry To create a short form of
a-ricuitural lions in North Carolina.al -low
in-the creditor to sell euou-h of
the property at public auction, after 5'J
days notice." to reco ver the debt and in
terest. Lu.k To amend the act of lS'jj es
tablishing n criminal circuit to b com
poitd cf tha couatie cf Euucombe.
Madison, Haywood and Henderson, by
f-trikin- out the word "criminal;" that
the jud-e in addition to his present ju
risdiction, shall have a!; o an to all civil
actions and special pleadings and all
civil business ori-inatin- or pendin- in
any of these counties concurrent equal
, jurisdiction, power and authority with
: the Supei ior Court jud-es; that there
shall be two extra terms of JJuncombe
court, of two weeks each, be-innin- ou
the third Monday in .June and the iirst
Monday in October, these to be civil
i terms and to he presided over by the
' circuit jud-e as provided in this Lill;
! that in compliance w it ii request of com
missioners of any of these counties to
hold a special term, the jud-e to re
ceive .."iiHi more annually.
Lu-k -To restore the rales of evi
dence in the makin- of sales of real es
tate for taxes as they were prior to lH.
Cook made a report for the special
committee on the Lill re-ardin- the
louse of the North Carolina liailroad,
oil'eiin- a substitute for the ori-iual
bill, askini. that it Le adopted for the
bill; a-kin- that it be pril ted, and that
it be made the special order for next
Friday. P-lackbuni protested that this
was too short a time. It was stated
that the House would be lLrht Friday,
owin- to the absence of committees.
Cook then mined that the bill be made
the special order for noon next Tues
day. It was s j ordered,
I he bill of Hancock to place the At
lantic and North Carolina 1'ai'road in
the hands of the iovernor pssse l the
House niter considerable debate pro
and eon
Cruinpler introduced a 1 i 1 1 to revise
the public school system.
Several other bills were introduced
by h ave, as follows:
Met ''. ary -To ci eaie a school district
on the line bttwoeii Davidson and
Kandoiph.
I ..vie -To pro ide for workin- public
roads Ly taxation.
Tim lisn.w.- House met at 10 o'clock.
Anion- the lulls introduced were:
Ctirrie To extend the time for the
or-auization of the LiliitLer Liver Pail
road Company; to extend the time for
the organization of the Pauk of i.utii
Lei ton : Allen To incorporate Woith
ville. b'atalolph county.
The "fellow-servants" bill introduced
by llartness passed second and third
roadin-s. !t -ives any employe cf a
railroad the ri-ht to sue for dama-os
and prevents any waiver of such ri-ht
to dama-es.
Pill passed prohibiting bird huntiii
iu Micklenbur-, Carteret, Peaufort.
lloekin-hain, Inion and Haywood
w ith ow ners' consent, the penalty be-in-
to allow ex-Sheriil' (irant. of
1 (avid ion, to collect arrears of taxes.
Senate bill to allow pensions to per
sons w ho hold over S."oo in proporty
was referred to the pi-ntiion committee.
Pills passed to incorporate the bevy
Pank, of Ptitherfoiii'.on; to permit il- h
to Le eau-ht in any manner in Colin 1
Lus county. Lake Waooainaw excepted.
The bill api'i-opiiatm- t,(
"North Carolina on Whetl-" v.a.s
ordered printed. It was formalll v re
ported. At the ni-ht session the Senate reso
lution to investi-ate eharircs of fiaud in
the matter of the last lease of the North
Carolina Uiiilroad came up. iilackburn
moved to table and attacked the resolu
tion, but withdrew his motion and the
resolution was referred to the special
committee on the lease of the read.
'I he le-olution reqt'est in- the com
mittee appointed to in vest i-aie the
ch.tr-es of bribery in the setiat: -rial
contest to report by February I t, came
up. but ;t was shown that the report
could not he made on that date, so the
resolution then passed and the .late w as
iixed as the K th for the report.
Fkioav House met at 10 o'clock.
Anion-the bills and resolutions were:
1 'earsou ( 'roatin - a commission com
posed of (iovernor L'usseil Julian S.
Carr and W. A. Hoke to procure a suit
able dosi-ii, with all necessary specifi
cations, for a monument in iialel-h,
upon a site chosen, in memory i f .. P..
Vance: that the commission may co
operate with the Vance Memorial Asso
ciation; that a icport be made lo the
next le-islatuie: that !,0t.li be appro
priated for necessary expenses.
P.d.lins To extent the time for
the or-atiization of the North Carolina
Slate Company, in Stanly county.
Aiken - To reduce the tonna-e tax on
fertilizers to -Jo edits per ton.
Ward To reduce the salaries and
fees of all public ollicels, save those
lixed by law, ' per cent.
Harris of Hyde - To provide for the
taking of depositions, etc., in the con
tests for seats in the le-islatuie. and
that no member shall ote until the
matter as to title to seat is decided.
M.-Pryde To provide that in all
cases of the maria-e of women under -J I
the marria-e shall have the same force
and effect in law as if the woman so
marryin- were -1 years of a-e.
Crewe, eontostee, from (irimville, re
tains his seat in the House.
Pill passed to protect lish in Xeiise
l iver, and the House took up the report
of the committee on insane asylums,
made by Sutton, of Cumberland, the
report bein- attached to a bill to pro
vide for the maintenance of the three
asylums. 1 he report says that at Mor--antoii
eotta-os are needed, but they
are not leoommoiiped just now; that
there are 'JO criminal insane; a depart
ment for the criminal in-ane is recom
mended at the penitentiary: it is rec
ommended that Durham and Poboson
be transferred to the Palei-h asylum ;
for the Mor-antoti asylum Si0o,ou is
recommended: for the'i.alei-h asylum
?fii:5.4."iO, and jrW.uoo for the purchase
of loo acres of laud; that SlJ.oon Le al
lowed the (iol.lslioro asylum and si.-J.Vt
for purchase of ' !i o acres of laud and
S'. coo for electric li-ht plant: that at
each asylum a person be -iven police
power t i arrest tramps or persons who
violate the rules. '1 lie bill covers these
recommendations.
At the ni-ht session the bill tore
quire the vaccination of all children
liver two years old was tabled: the bill
to put the election of county physician
in the hands of the commissioners
passed: the anti-foot ball l ill was ta
bled: a hill passed makin-it unlawful
to remove any minerals from the lands
of another without the permission of
the owner; resolution iustructin- the
Senators and Pepi escntatives in Con
gress to endeavor t secure the repeal
i f the civil service law; a bill to incor
porate the Coleman Mf-. Company at
Concord and to employ colored labor
passed.
Svn niiAY. House met at lit clock.
Anion- the bills introduced wore:
Morton To tax ei-arettes !." cents a
I no ka-e.
.fames To protect deer and turkeys
in Pender.
Ward - To declare ordained minis
ters and justices of the pence public
MolJride - To amend the charter of
I, umbel ton.
Thebillto provide for and promote
the oyster industry of the State passed
ti'con.l a.vl third readiu-s.
.Tone-. Miller. Maxwell. Pyrd, Leh
man. Wimbish. Sprui'l and Carroll
were appointed and continued as assist
ant enrolling clerks.
Pills passed: To repeal chapter 2;T,
nets lsi). so far as Pender is concerned;
this bein- the ai t allow inir a county to
ote a tax of JJ cents on the sioo'for
I uhlie school-; providing that in ail ac
tion!) brought by Leirs-at-lnw or miner
children defendants in action to plead
iny dfeac which might hav been
! pleaded by an executor, or in other j
i words, to plead the fetatute of limita- 1
tioii in case an executor or admmistra
l tor failed to make that plea for them; to
allow Sunday trains to cany express
matter of all kinds; to allow all justices
of the peace, notaries, clerks of Supe
rior and Inferior Courts iower to tiike
and certify acknowledgement of all
grantors and the private examination of
i married women (Onslow and Iredell e
' oepted ' ; creating a new tow nship in Mc-
Lowell; to -ive the jud-e of the West
. ern Criminal Circuit Court the same
power as a civil jud-e and strikin- out
the word "criminal" in the designation
of said court and allowin- the jud-e to
hold special terms, at :?100 each.
i'y h-ave, Sutton-Dili to protect pub
lie water supplies by requirin- all com
panies sellin- water to take precautions
to protect the supply from contamina
tion and that in ca-es where the supply
comes from small lakes or streams not
over fifteen miles Ion-, a sanitary in
spection shall be made weekly or ofteuer
if the board of health advises, failures to
do this bein- punishable by tJ-i l'me.
LIST OF XKW LAWS
.Mulo l.y the l.iiw-Makcrs at Ka!eili,
l'p to February lOtli. .
Fp to February loth the following
bills were eniollod and ratified, and are
now laws: To allow Fdeooaibe to
levy a special tax: to amend the charter
of the adesboro Cotton Mill; to in
corporate Pobbiusviiie, ( irahai.i county;
to incorporate Hamlet, Kiehiuond
county; to allow Cherokee to issue
bonds; to allow McDowell to levy u
special tax; to allow llichmond county
to levy a special tax; to allow Mont
gomery to levy a special tax; to allow
Wautati-a to levy a special tax; to re
peal act of I sit., 'establishing dividing
line between Alamance and Chatham
and let the people vote on that
question; to extend time of hold
ing Fcbruaiy term cf (.Juiiford
court: to protect iron biid-es in Macon
county; to make laud -rants valid even
when not registered in new ly formed
counties; resolution to raise a commit
tee t look into reduction of salaries; to
remove obstructions in Fig Dutch
creek, Cabarrus county ; to establish a
new township ia Surry; to give Mc
Dowell a county treasurer; to amend
the charter of the Southern Stock ?.Iu
tual Insurance Company; to require
persons fishing with nets and seines to
pay .s',',r.ou for licenses; resolution to
raise a joint committee to investigate
charges of bribery in the Senatorial
contest; to repeal act nf lSi). relating
to assignments; resolution to adjourn
in memory of U. 1). Lee; to a!!ov the
Cashie and ( 'howiin Lumber and liail
road Company to hold 100,000 acres of
land: to allow ex-Sherii'i Tea-ie, of
Swain to collect arrears of taxes;
for the relief of Clerk Watson,
of Craven Superior Court; to
relieve ex-Tax Collector LTiuore,
of Hryson City; resolutiun look
ing to reduction of salaries; to repeal
act regarding ran -ring of stock in ( ira
hiun county; to abolish extra term of
Washington Superior Court; to incor
porate town of Milhnuks, Wilson coun
ty; for the relief of ex-Sherill' Woods,
of Yancey; to extend the time for col
lecting taxes in Asheville; to extend the
time for organization of the Drummers'
Deposit Pank and to change the name;
to incorporate the Stone Mountain
liailroad Company; to iix the pay of
registers of deeds for recording elec
tion returns; to amead The Code as to
probate of deeds; to amend the charter
of the Jloanoko Navigation and Water
Power Company; to make guardians,
administrators and executors who mis
appropriate their funds liable to in
dictment for embezzlement; to allow
P.obeson to levy a special tax; to re
lievo Treasurer D. W. Lowell,
of Columbus county and his
sureties; to amen I the Hank of Gran
ville; to amend the charter of the Caro
lina Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Inventions of the Insane.
A wiiier in London Answers quotes
the talk of the resident physician of a
lai-ff asylum for the insane, who says
that persons eontimd in such institu
tions often display an inventive turn of
mind. ne of hi.s o n, p :t ieiits believes
himself shut up in the old Fleet prison
for the national debt, and in the hope of
raising the wherewithal to pay this
nailing sum and so obtain n hasa'. has
devoted himself to Inventing things.
Strange to say, among a host of ab
surd ideas, k" has produced two which
are re. illy practicable. His friends ami
I have.--applied him with such harmless
mail-rials as he requires, and he has
just finished a simple automatic eon-,
trivaitee lor the head of a lawn tennis,
racket, to pick up the baits and abolish,
stooping. It it'-ts perfectly well, and
I'm so convinced there's money in it
that I've advised his friends to secure,
a patent for him ia ea.se he becomes'
cured.
Mis other invention is of a different
kind, being a really eliicaciou.-s prevent
ive of seasickness. It's very simple;
two of its components are ia every
kitchen and the rest ia every chemist's
tslmp. 1 have successfully tested it my
self on two occasions when crossing
it he channel ia very stormy weather.
As aa instance of the cleverness of
lunatics, it may interest you to know
that a very valuable improvement con
nected with machinery, now In daily
use everywhere, was invented by the
inmate of an a.sylum well known to ev
ery one by name. As he is now quite
cured, and is a somewhat prominent
man. I won't mention any details; but
liis invention, designed and modijofl
.is a diversion while absolutely insane,
has since brought him in thousands of
pounds.
A lunatic at aa asylum where I was
once assistant physician invente.1 a Hy
ing machine, and had a unique method
of suspending it in mid-air. "Atmos
pheric pressure being fifteen iounds to
the square inch." he said, T have sim
ply to exhaust all the air from alvo
my air-ship by. an enormous air-pump
fixed over the whole deck, and the air
pressure underneath will hold the ship
up."
I told him he'd need another air-pump
on top of the Iirst one to exhaust the air
that would be pressing that pump
down, and another a!ove that, and so
j mi, Put no iieeiareii no once made a
i model which had worked splendidly.
! Ho said. '-It Hew about in the room like
j a bird. Fnfortunately. the window hap
j poned to be open at the top. and it flew
I out and so I lost it."
I The chaplain of an asylum in th-
' north once told me of a madman there
i who had a plan for laying a cable round
! the world in two days. His idea wa
' to send up a powerful balloon to the
highest possible altitude, with a cable
attached. Py the revolution of the
i earth on Its axis the cable, he declared.
; would be laid completely round the
earth ia twenty-four hour,
Coming Hostilities Between Tur
key and Greece Growing.
HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED.
The Trouble Arose From the Recent
Conflict Bctweeutlic Christians and
M iissuliiiaus.
Constantinople (Cable). All the in
dications point to coming hostilities be-lw-eeu
Tnrkey and Greece growing oat
of the complications arising from the
recent conflict between the Christians
and Mussulmans on the Island of Crete.
The Sultau of Turkey has officially
notitied the Lowers that the Ottoman
Empire will attack Greece in Thessaly
ia the event of the Lowers failing to re
strain hostile action in Crete on tin
part of Greece.
Such a contingency as interference by
the Powers appears to be remote, and
the landing of the Greek lh.tilla at Ca
ina, under the command of Prince
George, indicates plainly that Greece
is anxious to force the lighting by tak
ing steps to prevent the landing of
Turkish troops on the island, and that
it is probably the intension of annexa
lion which the Christian population are
-o anxious to have accomplished.
'1 hot! reek llotilhi is said to have land
ad a large quantity of munitions of war
ind provisions intended for the equip
ment of the insurgents, who had ilock
:'d to the hills surrounding the town of
Paaeii awaiting the arrival of reinforce
ments from ( ireece.
That Prince George has lost no time
ia assuming aa attitude of active bellig
L'rency is indicated by a leiort from
L'aaea.
IOHN RANDOLPH TFCKKIi IKAI.
I'lie Noted Virginian Passes Away.
A Biographical Sketch.
At Lexington, Va , Saturday Hon.
Tohn Landolph Tucker died at
o'clock. He was conscious up to a few
hours of his death, and died very
ijuietly.
Mr. Tucker was born in Winchester,
Va.. December 'J-l, lfCM, and was edu
cated at the Fniversitv of Virginia. He
was admitted to the bar in 1S4") and
was a presidential elector ia 1N.VJ and
is.'ii-.. lie served as Attorney General
of Virginia from ls.-,7 to 1 '.:';. Ly the
issue .if the civil war he was deposed
from his oilice. Mr. Tucker was elected
proresfor of equity and law in Wash
ington and Lee University in 1M70. He
represented Virginia ia the Forty
fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty
seventh, Forty -eighth and Forty -ninth
Congresses.
RKI CROSS TO TIIK RFSCFK.
Miss Clara liar ton Authorized to Min
ister to Wounded in Cuba.
The Spanish minister has addressed a
letter to Misw Clara Parton, of the Led
Cross Society, ia which he says :
"I have just received a cablegram
from the 1 lake of Tctman informing
me that the Government of Spain, after
consulting the commander-in-chief, ac
cepts your benevolent offer. J am in
structed in the same cablegram to con
vey to you the thanks of the (ueea and
the Spanish government for your gra
cious intentions and view s. "
Miss Parton and her oflicers are read y
to leave for Cuba if the American peo
ple desire to entrust funds or other ma
terial to them for distribution among
the homeless, sick and destitute of that
island.
An Ciilirar.l of Coincidence.
A special from Concord, , C, to
the Charlotte Observer says: "An
almost unheard of coincidence happened
in No. st Township last week. Mrs.
Unfits Larringer, a middle-aged lady,
who had been siek for quite a while
with pneumonia, died. A neighbor,
Mrs. Jacob Allium, a woman of great
physical strength and a m st amiable
lady, was sent for to come and help
dress the corpse for burial. While the
process was going on Mrs. Almau took
suddenly ill and died within three
hours in the same house where lay the
corpse .' he had gone to repare for
burial. The death of Mrs. Alman is at
tributed to heart failure and to having
became unduly excited.
A Maniac's Awful Deed.
At Lexington, Ky. , John Mans, a
leading citizen, tried to murder his en
tire family. The man was undoubtedly
insane. Marrs killed his 4-vear-ohl
son, .Tohn, shot his 14-vear-oht daugh
ter, Helen, tried to kill his sister, Ida,
and killed himself. Marrs was about
10 years old and had been a member of
the tirm of M. Kaufman Ar Co., cloth
iers, for years; was prominent in build
ing association circles, owned a great
deal .if real estate and was considered
one of the most promising and success
fill of Lexington's young businessmen.
Bryan Will Lecture.
Wm. J. Lryan says he will continue
to lecture as occasion required. Asa
rule, his lectures w ill be given under
the auspices of bimetallic leagues cr
similar organizations, which would
share in the receipts. In this way he
would be assisting the silver cause and
providing an income for himself.
Want Cotton Factories.
The (iovernor of Alabama has signed
a bill exempting from taxation for tea
years all cotton factories built here
after in that State.
Minor Mention.
The steel rail iool has gone to pieces.
Gen. Joe Shelby iVed at Adrian, O.
Ilichmond. Va , is to have a bicycle
factory.
Preparations have been completed at
Lincoln, Neb., for the coming general
conference of the Seventh Day Adven-;-:-
of the world.
At Washington satisfactory assur
ances have been received from Caracas
that the Venezuelan boundrv tretty will
be promptly ratified.
At Frankfort, Ky.. the Court of Ap
peals has overruled the petition for n
rehearing in the Jackson and Walding
cases. This will be final ane it re
mains with the Governor to tix the
date for the execution of the murderers
of Pearl Lryan.
At Ottawa. Out , fire started in the
packing room of the Public Works De
partment in the upper story of the
western block of the Parliament build
ings, and. after burning four hours
;:e loss was estimated at .t.H,0oo with
no insurance.
Everything i in radinen for the
. o:bett-FUziaimoc fight March Gth.
WERE HURRICANE SWEPT.
A Terrible Experience of Admiral
Bunce's Fleet.
Charleston, S. C. (Special). Ad
miral Bunce'3 trip from Hampton
Loads to Charleston bar, with the flag
ship New York, the battleship Maine,
the cruiser Columbia, the monitor Am
1 nitrite and the cruiser Marblehcad has
cost Uncle Sam the lives of four men,
injuries to eight others and just how
man dollars in damages to the ships is
not known.
I he l attle ship Maine lost: Leonard
C. Kogtl, apprentice, secoud-elass,
dashed to death against turrets and
body lost in the sea.
John Brown, seaman, washed over
board and drowned; body lost.
Alexander L. Nelson', private in
United States marine, washed overboard
and drowned; body lost.
The cruiser Marblehead lost: Sha
whart, ship's carpenter, dashed todeath
by heavy sea: body caught
The injured are seven of the oarpeu
ters' gang who were at work on the sea
anchor with Shawhart and were
dashed against the iron superstruc
ture end and were all more or less
hurt.
'Jhe following ships are now at the
mouth of Charleston harbor.
The flag ship New York, the battle
ship Maine, cruisers Columbia and
Marblehead, monitor Amphitrite, dis
patch boat Dolphin and the trausjsirt
Fern.
The Indiana, which started from
Hampton Loads, put back before the
storm.
COST OF AN EXIIIUIT.
What tlie (ioveriimciit Spent on f lie
Atlanta Exposition.
Assistant Secretary Dabney of the
Department of Agriculture has com
pleted his reoort to the President as
chairman of the board of managers of
th I Li:ed States exhibit at the Cotton
States' International LxjKtsition at At
lanta, (la., held in 1 N1K. In the letter
of transmittal accompanying the report
r. Dabney recites that under the sun
dry civil act approved Aug. is, ls;i,
the government authorized an exhibit
by the govornmeument of the United
States of "such articles and materials
as illustrate the function and adminis
trative faculty of the government'' and
appropriated for the expenses of such
exhibit is-'no, 000, of which .."io,()oo was
for building, and of the Sbio.oOO re
maining not more than Slo.ooo was to
be expended for clerical services. How
catefully this fund was disbursed is
shown by the fet that the building cost
S't, TOO and exhibit proper Si;;s,-J.! f.su,
of which JfLs-I.Ot only was for clerical
services. Tims, after carrying out
fully and creditably the purposes of the
appropriation, over jf iOOO remained to
be turned back into the United States
treasury. The report of the chairman
concludes with a brief but earnest
tribute to Dr. Geo. P. Goode and
Messrs. U. E. Farle and L. S. Mat
thews, who were associated with Dr.
Goode in the installation and care of
the exhibit, all of whom have died ia
the progress of the work.
Pr. Dabney's reort as chairman is
followed by a list of the awards of the
board of awards to the United States
government departments, bureaus and
individuals, whose services were deem
ed worthy of recognition ia the pre
paration and arrangement of the gov
ernment exhibits.
PENSION AGENCIES REDl ( El.
Only Nine Disbursing Offices for liie
Entire Country Hereafter.
The President has decided to reduce
the pension agencies from eighteen to
nine, which w ill be a saving of .1."0, (oo
annually. The consolidation was made
by uniting existing agences and the en
tire jurisdiction thereof, in order that
no exjH'iise should be incurred by the
making of new rolls. The agencies at
Concord, N. II., and Augusta, Me , are
discontinued, ami payments hitheito
made there are ordered made from tiie
agency at Boston, Mass.; the pension
ers heretofore paid at Buffalo, N. Y.,
are to be paid from the New York City
agency: those at Pittsburg from the
1 hila.lelphia agency; those at Louis
ville and Kuoxville from Washington;
those at Detroit from Indianapolis,
those at Milwaukee from Chicago; those
at Dos Moines and 'lop. ka lrom St.
Louis, w here a new agency is estab
lished. A Novel Bill.
A bill before the California Legisla
ture provides that two photographs
shall be taken at public expense of ev
ery voter registered, one set to be
placed in a book in alphabetical older
if names and another in another book
arranged by streets and numbers of
rooms in houses for the use of election
officials. Lvery photographer in the
State is understood to be in favor of the
passage of the bill.
Tlie .Maximum Price.
The Senate committee on naval af
fairs has ugreed that the maximum
price to be paid for armor plate sludl
not exceed j?- -K, 000. If satisfactory con
tracts eaiinot le made with the Car
negie people. Congress w ill Le asked
for SI--"M.0t;0 with which to establish a
government plant.
Died on His Knees.
Fred J. Fstes a reporter for the Co
lumbus ( ia. ) Evening Call, an evening
newspaper of that city dropped dea l
while at church. He w as kneeling at
prayer, when he rai.-ed himself to his
full height, and fell back dead.
Discredit tlie Story.
The American ping tobacco manufac
turers discredit the story sent from De
troit to the effect that whole-ale grocers:
in the Middle We.'t States are forming
a combine in opposition to the Ameri
can Tobacco Company, and regard the
if poit as a stock -jobbing manipulation.
Messrs. Ligget A- Meyers and J. T.
Di iimuiornl, whose names were con
nected with the dispatch, deny that
th.-v are or hereafter will be connect.-.!
with any such combination.
Insane Mother's Tragic Act.
At Pig Timber, Mont , the w ife of
John Colt threw her three children into
the Ye'Iowstoue Liver and them jump
ed in after them. The cause of the
tragedy is sai l to be domestic uuhnppi
licss. The children were under two
veai ' cf age, two beikg twins.
An Address to Women.
A number of the women of New York
have i-sued an addre-s to tlie women
of the United State1-, for co-oeiatioti
in argii: upon the Semite the ratifi
cation of the ar 'vitiation t:ety.
Tennessee's Centennial Has Become
International in Its Scope,
AND WILL BE IN THE FRONT
Rank of the Jreat Historic Exhibi
tions It Means Much More Than
Appears on the Surface.
The Manufacturers' Uocovd says:
"As the time for the opening of the
International Exposition at Nashville
approaches the success of the culmina"
tiou of Tennessee's centennial Wcomes
more and more of a certainty, l'.epre
sentiug in its essence th enterprise
and activity of th city and State in
which it w ill be held, it will in a wider
sense exemplify the progress and
promise of the South in line w ith that
of this country and foreign lands.
Local in its origin it has become inter
national in its scope, and w ill undoubt
edly be in the front rank of the great
historic exhibitions. It will have cer
tain unique features in ablitioa t-
those without which such aa under
taking cannot assume proper propor
tions. Its department of line arts,
for instance, will liesnpplementcd by re
productions in mauy of its lunhlings of
the masterpieces of classic architecture,
and they w ill be set in an adaptation .if
aid to nature to which its location pe
culiarly lends itself. The Woman's
Building will have as a novel adjunct
one devoted to children, with a world
wide collection of young folks' special
ties in the way of boys and games; the
railroads centering ut Nashville will
have displays characteristic of the sec
tions through which they pass, and in
the Negro Building w ill be illustrations
of the advance made by a race which is
the more interesting as it is studied
more closely. Several Northern and
Western States will lie represented, and
France will probably lead the foreign
nations in the size and completeness of
exhibits.
"For the South the exposition w ill
mean much more than appears on the
fuirface. From May 1 until November
1 the eyes of this country will be cen
tred uiM.n Tennessee; hundreds of thou
sands of visitors will lie attracted each
! month to that State and its neighbor.--.
and the elfect can only be that in
creased impetus will be given to the
career of unexampled development and
prosperity uiou which the South has
filtered."
GOING AHEAD RAPIDLY
With the Inaugural Preparations at
Washington.
Preparations for McKinley's inaugu
ration are going ahead rapidly. Greut
loads of lumber have been dumped in
front of the different government lots
below the White House preparatory to
the erection of stands to be used in re
viewing the inauguration parade. Ev
ery inch of available government space
between the oapitol and the White
House will be used in building plat
forms. Seats on these platforms will
be rented on March 4th to the public,
but the person desiring a place of vant
age and a seat also will have to pay
dearly for it. The money taken in at
these stands will Le turned into the
treasury of the local committee on ar
arrangemcnts. The citizens of Wash
ington niLscriLed .s.Vt.ooo for making
arrangements for McKinley's inaugu
ration, and they will be reimbursed
after inauguration day, but all money
over and above the amount subscribed
will lie given to the different charitable
institutions of the District. - N. V. Sun.
The Industrial South.
Tin Industrial South, of N'oifolk, V..
is now at work ou a special edition that
will very thoroughly describe the
country all along the Seaboard Air Line
from Norfolk to Atlanta, and Wilming
ton to Put herfoiiltou. it will be about
sixty pages in size, and be tilled with
Wautiful half-tone illustrations of
scenes along the line; public buildings,
factories, etc. The edition will be very
large and will advertise to the world
the great material wealth of our beauti
ful South and the countless oicniiigs
here for the investment of capital in
productive industrial enterprises of idl
kirn's.
Wilson Unanimously Flecteil.
J.t Lexington, Va. . Thursday, the
board of trustees of the Washington
and Lee University at a called meeting
held unanimously elected Postma-ter
General William L. Wilson president
of that institution. lie will i. nially
assume the duties of the position at the
opening the next session in September,
lie had been selected at a previous
meeting and the present meeting was to
ratify his acceptance. His selection is
hailed with delight.
To Memorial!..- Congress.
The planters of sea island cotton in
Pierce county, (?a. , held . con vention
and resolved to memorialize congress
to put a duty on sea island cotton im
i m ported from Fg it. Steps uret .be
taken to organize the planters in
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina to
unite in tue memorial to reduce the
acreage planted this year.
Big Failure of a Phosphate Company.
The Oca la k Blue Liver Phosphate
Company, at Ocala, Fla , u;in appli
cation of Edgar 1L Allen, as trustee, for
the bondholders has been placed in the
hands of a receiver by Judge W. A.
Hooker. '1 he amount involved is esti
mated to be from one to three hundred
throusand dollars.
An Editor Jailed.
J. L. I'atteraon, editor of the Ports
mouth, Ohio, Tiiio-s has !: n sen.
tenced to jail for three davs and tim-d
I'PiO by Judge Milner for the nubbo.
tion of a contemptuous criticism of the'
court's decision.
Virginia and North Carolina League.
There i.J, a scheme on foot by Edward
If. Donelh-, of Uoanoke, Va , to form
a baseball league to Ik; composed of
Danville, Winston, I'.oanoke. High
Point Greensboro and Charlotte.
The Contract Awarded.
Mr. N'icholas Ittner, of Atlanta fin ,
has leen awarded the contract for the
building of Elizabeth College at Char
lotte, N. C. He is to complete t!i"
buildings by September 20th, next.
Against Sunday Racing.
At Albany, N. Y., the League of
American Wheelmen defeated a pi.p
osition for Sunday racing by a vote o.'
7? to 181.
NEWS HEMS CONDENSEP,
Southern Prnril Pointers.
The deficit of the city of Biohmond
was near .t0!i,uoo for "the year lS'.lti;
that is. her exeuditures exceeded her
receipts that much. The exact figures
of the deficit are officially stated to le
$:'., -LN. ;..
The Senate of the Tennessee legisla
ture passed a bill heretofore passed by
the House prohibiting the sale of ciga
rettes or cigarette paper in that State,
or the giviug way of acigarett. or ciga
rette paier.
Abbeville, Ga . has experienced a
j?15,0to tire.
"Congressman Maddox, of Georgia,
has introduced a bill in Congress ao-
, propriating $."o,ooofor a public building
i at Dalton, Ga.
Jeff Cain, the engineer who was ou
the engine "The General," when seiz
ed by I nion raiders in IStiJ, died in At
lanta, (ia.
A. E. Drought, ex-receiver of the
Florida Midland Uailroad. has been
sentenced to twelve mouths on the
county chain-gang in Atlanta. Ga , for
altering checks.
('apt. A. D. Cowles, of Statesville,
N. C. ; has been 'appointed Adjutant
General by Governor Kussell.
At a meeting of the Eastern stock -holders
of the Southern Building and
Loan Association, of KnoxvilU, Tenn. ,
a plan of voluntary liquidation, de
signed to prevent a permanent receiver
ship, was submitted. The general
meeting of the st. H'kholders w ill be hold
March 4th, at Kuoxville.
Negroes in Atlanta and Alabama have
caught the Liberia fever again and are
bending every energy to get money to
pay the transisutation charges.
At Fernandia. Fhi.. P. II. Mcintosh
quarreled with his wife and then com
mitted suicide.
The Louisville, I'.vansville - St.
Louis shops, at Princeton, Ind., has
been burned. Loss $KHI,(Mj.
It is reHirted from Jacksonville, Flu.,
that Macco, the Cuban insurgent gen
.nil, is alive and is now at Miama,
Fla.
A deal has been cousimiated where
by Birmingham, Ala., is to have a steel
plant within six mouths to cost six
hundred thousand dollars.
J. T. Spoor, Jr., a young white man,
was shot and killed at Macon, (ia., in
attempting to steal chickens.
The Noel! flour mill, at Fslell
Springs, in Franklin county, Tcnn.,
which cost j?:i00,00i, is advertised for
hale for Sls,ooo on March id.
iovernor Ellerbe in a Sieeial message
to the South Carolina legislature says
the State's liiiancosare sluikey.
At Spartanburg, S. ('., Saturday, a
locl train collided w ith a shifting train
mashing up things in general. En
gineers and firemen of both trains
jumped and saved themselves. A negro
w ho was on the cowcatcher of the shift
ing engine was killed.
Admiral Police's squadron of evolu
tion is to blockade Charleston, S. ('.,
i tally in February.
Judge E. T. Merrick, ex-Chief Jus
tioeof tlie Louisiana SiipremeCoiirt and
one of the best known lawyers in the
South, is dead.
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All About the North.
The Vermont Legislature has pass
ed a bill prohibiting Sunday exclu sion
trains.
It is announced from Chicago that
the great combine of steel makers, that
has controlled the industry in this
country, mid that includes the chief,
companies in the country, has been dis
solved. Cashier C. E. Bieder, of the First
National Bank of Bethlehem, Pa , is a
d fan Iter to the amount of gLVtU". He
has absconded.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kansas legislature by Senator Banna,
(Pop.) on lotting out all county oliiees
to the lowest bidder.
At Grand Uapi.ls, Mich., John I ane,
in consideration of .-,'), under a written
agreement, sold and released his w ife to
.las. II. Hurst. All concerned celebra
te I the event.
At Lancaster, Petin., Abe Benson,
one of the members of the gang of
thieves and outlaws who reside on the
Welsh Mountains was shot and
killed by his step-brother, Jeiry
Green, who is also a noted criminal
and member of the same gang.
M isci'lliin.'ous.
A company .if forty men in Wash
ington has been formed to go to Cuba
and fight for the patriots.
The President has granted a par.h.n
to restore citizenship to G. T. I'aug
inaii, of South Carolina, convicted of
counterfeiting.
Where lo Old Pianos C;.i?
Whit hceomcK of the old pianos?
They set -iii to disappear from tlie world
almost as mysteriously ns pins. Per
haps, considering their size, tlie fact
that the streets are not M.fked with
cast-off pianos Is more curious than
that the fae.. of the earth fails to I...
overlaid with pins. Af- experienced
dealer says he has known of but three
that w.-re our up f,(- firewood. Yet
th.y often sell for little more than so
much pin. would bring. It is the cus
tom .if most houses to take old instru
ments and allow something for them.
The deduction is counted ns almost
had loss, but It brings trade. Tl:
old instruments are refitted and pol
ished up. however, and sold again-in
many Instances Ix-couiing the property
of hoarding house keepers. Boar. ling
houses are the chief refuge of second
hand pianos. Then they are sold by
small dealers to country p-opI all over
the land. Men ihat go into that brunch
of the trade can get pianos pretty
cheap, for the first-class houses some
times get so overloaded with them that
tin y are almost willing to pay to have
them carried a way. Boston Traveler.
Adolphtis-I wonder if .Miss Sharp.- Is
piiying me, or If sh is really gone on
me? Theodore Why, what did she
siy? Adolphus She said I would al
ways le fresh In her memory. Boston
Transcript.
MniiV.rte The gamekeeiter t:iy. t
he saw j ou taking tiiii pliemvj'.. U -
iiave you to say to that?
Prisoner I o-ily t ok it for ;t lur
Magistrate Six month for iiiV.ai .-
such an ornithological error. o.-i. i
jour natural hi-torr in future
Misa Daisy Medders o oylyi "Do ;
loe me, Jason?" Jason HuckleU n
" 'Course I love you: Do yu sse I .
have been actln' the fool over you
tn! tlm If I didn't V Truth.