North Carolina Newspapers

wwwwwww- kkkk a j -sub ouiu ros . 5 t JOB PRINTING ; Prints . the . News an.l is sought after by the peo I In of Mirlio -vol, Yancey Bun-i-'iirl, Ituthrrford, Burks nri'1 otlipr counties In WeBtern . rt!i Carolina, and I there to rt a Cood Advertising Medium. Hates furnishs-l on application. Ad drss, THE MESSENGER Harlot, N. 0. THE MESSENGER, Jaarion. rl. C. Promptness, Accuracy, Nsatsass and Oood Stock Guaranteed. Letter Head. Sote Reads, Bill Heads. Enrrlopes, Circular, Cards. Pos ters, Pamphlets, and any kind of Printing. VOL.IL NO. 10. MAKIOXN C.,FMD'AY,,IUXE2;. 1807. Price 1 Per Year, in Advance. Ths Messenger Of lit CYCLONE. Heavy Damage Throughout Illinois and Other Places. BAPTIST CHURCH BLOWN DOWN Searching for the Dead !inl Wounded --Collages IJIown Down and Great Havoc Reigned Cencrally. Petunia received from both the North and Western irt LoriH of Indiana indi cate that hivt Thursday 'h stjrm, which 1 i -i not cea.-e until Friday morning, did iimi'h ilainiiL'c A telegram from ( liven Castle hays that repnrts from tho coun try show that large quantities of vain able 1 1 i i 1 r has been destroyed, huge ti. i being twisted off ut their roots, i m iii f lii-n, g and stock suffered fie crcly and two large barns, valued at il.O'M) cit'li. Here lest roycil by light ning. ' 'lie at Hamhrick 's station, con taining Mime valuable live stock, was li'-Mrove I At Koehestor, Rrowtishurg anil Wabash tho damage was heavy to farm pi opei ty. A special from Durham, X. C.,of tiie I -1 1 to the. Charlotte ( Me-ervor. iiv : About ! o'clock this afternoon I mi hum was visited by a tci riilie rain, l.nil and thunder storm and at th-i s:unn lime a cyclone asse.l over wist I 'ur lium. doing great damage, 'i" In; !!ap ti t hiirch was I i-.v u down and every thing; in tlie h;:d ling ileinoli bed, ceept the Kigali, it is a total loss, there being no msm ;.nce. I he storage w ii'idr use of the Frwiu "It'iii Mill was kI-o blown down ami 1 !.e lo-: will I each mi into the thous iii,.! -. of dolbi-s. Wh-naskel what the I ... would he to i:.,:l, tin; president I the liuiis said it w as impossible to t.!! yet, Imt he sail he was fully eov- 'i-' I by tornado insurance, and would loo-c nothing. The warehouse was a t'.o-tory structure, about 10! feet li nir, and was packed with lino cloths, ii.nl the rain which fell in torrents as the cyclone passed, wet all the goods. It is Miid then; was hetweeli ;$ "5,000 and .lu'i,ni-o worth of goods in the building at the time il was blowd down. At Trinity Colh'o hotli the smoke stacks at the lighthouse were lilowa down. Windows were blow u nt and numbers of o:,s t-s broken by the hail. Scw-ral trees in tlielawn were broken nii-l torn dow n. 1 he dan. am- to proper ty is considerable. ;:n: dwelling hoiiso was unroofed and two chimneys Mown down, near Trinity College, while the fiunily v. iis inside. No one w as hurt. I lie chiiuiieys of Muall houses were I. low n dow II 111 dit'iel eiit parts of the city, hut so far no one lias heoii re ported killed. Telephone, telegraph and electric ii-ht wires are down all over the west ern part of the city and hetweeli hern mid Wot 1'urhaiii, two miles distant. A larife plate tlass window iu the Morehea 1 I'ank was hroken. The loss is about .f lu.. The cyclone came from the north west mi I w ent s outheast. Nothing has 'i-eii lii an I from the country. i'ii Thursihy, the 17th Charlotte. Su!i Siery, llih Point, Marshall and other points, in North Carolina, were is''i d ,y a licrce tornado. At Salisbury a nern woman was killed hy lightning and many trees ami buildings were damaged. At !ar- ha I a furniture f.icp.rv was hlown .low,, I avis. .1 une Is. (I'.y Cable). -A cy clone swept over the villages of lle oiio and Coloiubes, near this city, this afternoon. Houses collapsed, trees were torn up, telegraph wires broken, -everal people injured ami inli''".i geli-i-' ul d:mia'e done. t the time the ec!o'ie struck As liii r.-.!., a fair was in progress. In the dl -tiinee the cycloue pre-elited the llp- l i'iira: (! a clou ! ! smoke. Loots er.- s.mhi living in the air like kites. May poie, I Vi yards long, wascar lu lo'.i r the house contiguous to the !u'r -roi'.tids, Anihulaiices aud forty carrinjes are now .searching for the 'ii .id a ul wounded. Mad i id June x. illy Cable.) Vio lent hail and rain storms have swept the I'l-oMUee of Savogia ill the old Cietie district. Crops have been mine.;, houses have been llooded tiM.i . Mttle and goods have been carried :r i by tin. ids. The people are panio STlekctl. i in: AKIl'F ON TOII.C ), A ( Kinpriciiise Kat e of .St. 7." Agreed rpon hy the Republican lcinttTs ol l lie I Iii. nice oiiiniit tee. The controversy over the rate vf duty on wrapper tobacco, which has been ill pruji e- s ever since the tali tl bill was t i'.o :. up in the Senate, has been settled -o far :n the Lepublicau members of t.:e iiiiaiice committee could settle it. '' e-, agreeing upon t'ni rate of jfl.T-l I '- l ' i l l. I'his is a compromise rate. 1 .. 'owers (it wrapper leaf wanted a 'a:. . ;' --J, while the liiauufactureis o i that the rate should not exceed " "'. liie committer has held many liie, !i:is to consider the question, as ! ! ! sides were very persistent in their ' ;:..s. A Preacher 'ont'esses. A s;,,oal from I iiintsville, Ky.. says :is!i:ngt..n ("raft, the Primitive 1'ap i : ..mister, on trial in the I'lovil Cir i'.t '.iirt for the murder of Tondell ; -ins. I'li'tet-n years a:o, was placed t .e witness stand. Me denied kill li'.t'gins, claiming he was forty s wtiy when the deed was comniit 1 !u cross eaiiiiuati-e,i Craft broke ." : adm.tted kttlig his uncle, ' Craft and Wm, Cool;, fifteen "a-1. Clait has long been btis ' i of killing these n.eu. Ivil'.eil Her Hi other. ? I'aiis. Texas. Mi-s Tannie Jack '', t :it I'd Kilgore, missing him i t k. i i ; her brother instantly. Two ' f ithei s, aided by S iss Jackson, " : i-t nine shots into Kilgore. Ie ' i s'.i;,l,.red Miss Jaekfoii. e.irubt l,l,nts irsiiita. '"tiiversity of Ceoiuia defeated i.i -i i -;!ynf Virginia in a series of - lil ies, v.inniugtiie best two out l ee, thereby gi ing them the inter--in'c l i.ampionship (.f the South. oVtoohwht Holmes left last week :'ner. Col., to represent the State - International Cold Milling CVn He will visit several West-'n:-s during the next thirty 1 he iellow who was lyuhed tho other in Mississippi is supposed to have ""'i :he a stent for an artesian well rilne up pa rut us. eik was hanged at Zeba- I M 1'KOVK.M EM' ; TIN L'K.S. 5Iore Kfttablisiiments Have Reen Set hV Work and More Hands Em ployed. Ii. (1. Dun fc (Vs weekly review of trade says iu part: "The retarding influence of cold and unseasonable weather has passed. The gain in business in Bpite of it, which was seen n week atro, has become clearer to all, as no genuine improvement ever begins w ith an uplifting of prices before the producing force has become fairly employed. And the buying of 7,000 bales Australian wool by one IJoston iioiisoami loi.iMii) tons pig iron by a V.all street operator arid advancing prices for stocks i.s only proof that the actual conditions are understood Iiv some capable men. 'J hero is evidence of gradually en larging business in every important de partment. More establishments have been set at work and more hands em ployed, and while prudence still hin ders speculative excesses, the progress toward better things is unchecked! "Ueports from the various cities this week show a very general progress aud a continued large distribution through retail trade. The proof is clearer, as it should be, in tiie industrial than in the trading lielil. Contracts providing for the consumption of several million tons of iron ore have already been made, two million within the past fornight, it is believed, though last year's contracts only terminated about "two mouths ago. "In the produce markets the year draws toward a close, w ith slightly stronger prices for corn, owing to heavy foreign buying, and iu cotton owing to a better foreign demand, not withstanding the encouraging crop re ports. Nobody can count bales in Juue, but the outlook is so far favora ble that few make large ventures agaiust the yield exceeding 0,000,0110 bales. "Wheat was hoisted nearly So. , but fell about as much, closing at J,c. higher for the week, in spite of reduced w-estem re eipts and Atlantic exports. For the two weeks of June, Atlantic exports cf w heat and flour have been equal to I, !77, .".; bushels, against 0, 1 1 ,!-." last year. "Failures for tho week have been 1'JS 111 tlie I'tlll...! S:..f..j n,rm'..cl O'.: I...I " "-... ....n ..'I ll year, and :;i in Canada, against :2li last oi K co.mmi:i; i; with cintA. How It Has Heen I fleeted liy the War In That' Island. A signilicent report on our trade with Cuba from iss; to lst',7, prepared by Chicd" Hitchcock, of the foreign mar kets section of the agricultural depart" meiit, has been promulgated by Secre tary of Agriculture Wilson. The statis tics show very dearlj-the effect of pres ent hostilities in Cuba upon the com mercial intercourse of the United States with that island. 1 luring the las lisc.il year, lSOfi, the to tal value of ourCubau trade amounted to only is-K.-VH.iild, as compared with lu'.',S;i,v:id in 1S:., the year preceding the breaking out of the war. I'his was a falling oil' of more than 50 per cent, in three years, lteturns already avail able for the current fiscal year, indicate a still further decline, tho records for the nine months, ending March 151, ls;-7, placing the total value of the trade for that period as low as .'14,,.it.;, -slT. At this rate the figures for the fiscal year Ist'.IT w ill hardly reach oo(i, Oitii, or less than one-lifth the value recorded for lsj;. 1 Miring the early yews of the pres ent decade our Cuban trade had receiv ed a material impetus, tho years 1HS7 ls.i.i inclusive showing uninterrupted gains and but for the opening of the war a still greater expansion, it is pre dicted, probably would have followed. As it is, however, commercial inter change between the I'uited States aud Cuba has been very largely abridged. ITS 1I A1M KU NOT IX HANC.KIC Judge Christ bin flakes a Statement About the Jellerson Davis Monu ment Association. Concerning the question raised as to whether the Jefferson Davis Monument Association lias "lived up tt." the terms of its charter, and has now any legal existence, ex Judge Ceorge L. Christian a leading' lawyer of liichmoud, Va. , aud for u long time president of the Richmond chamber of commerce, writes to one of the evening papers as follow s: "1 am one of the corporators and di rectors named in the charter and feel the deepest interest in the accomplish ment of the purpose for which the as sociation was organized. There is no such provision in it about an annual meeting, and the election of ollieers, as stated in your paper. The association has held frequent meetings every year, since it was organized, and 1 believe that all of its proceedings have been ns legal and as regularly conducted as those of any corporation of a similar character ever chartered under the laws of this, or any other State. "Kespectfully, "(iko. L. Christian."' Secret Meeting of Cotton Seed Oil Men. At Chattanooga. Tenn., a secret meet ing of cotton seed oil men has just been held at Lookout Inn. the pro ceedings of which the attending mem bers have declined to give out. Knough has been learned, however, to state that the question of prices and production w as considered and that a quasi trust was discussed. Whether it was formed or not is not definitely kuow n. !'o Sell us a Whole. Judge Simouton of the United States Circuit Court, has re-alarmed his de cree in the case of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, of New- York, against the Cupe Fear A- Yadkin Valley Lailroad Company, ital. 'This decis ion in that the railroad shall be sold as a whole, not iu divisions, as contended by the plaiutili's. To Kun Shorter Time. Several cotton mills of Lowell. Mass., w ill cloe down for a week and then run on short time. I'o Consolidate the Railroad Unions. A union meetingof live great railroad unions, engiueeis, firemen, conductors, trainmen aud telegraphers, was held at New Castle, I'a. The object of the meeting is the Amalgamation of all the jailroad unions into one. I Iiirty-Kight Successful. Of the 10;! cadets -who applied for ad mission lo West l'oint, only thirty-eight have been '.ueeessfn!. three being from Nortli Carolina. NEWS ITEMS. Southern I'enoil Pointers. The Western Union office at Mont gomery, Ala., has been burned. On the streets of Portsmouth, Va . James McAlpin was shot aud instantly killed by William Uoon. Several North Carolinians win scholarships at Johns Hopkins' Uni versity. . At Did l'oint Comfort. Va , the citi zens of Iliehinond presented a loving cup to the battleship Texas. At 5ogart, (la , Walter Norris is killed by lightning; he had a baby in his arms which was not injured. A South Carolina man has forty acreR of tea plants. The shrubs are about three feet high and planted iu rows six feet apart. The 17th was Virginia Day at the Nashville Centennial Imposition. The Fourth llegiment escorted tiov. O'Fer rall to the grounds. Lightning killed four negroes iu a tenement house on the plantation of John M. Striekland, six miles south of Senoia, (la. A machine shop at Lineolnton, X. (!., lias begun tho manufacture of printing presses. Five women and children have been killed by a negro in Kemper county. Kentucky. William Peagues, a negro IJaptist preacher of Chesterfield, S. C, is the proud father of forty-three children. In Virginia a negro shoots a constable and then defies the authorities; his cab in is set on tiro and he is captured as ho runs out. June 2:M has been fixed as North Carolina Day at the Nashville Centen nial, instead of tho '.Mth as previously announced. - Tho Haleigh (N. C. ) Press-Visitor learns that the 'Tribune is to resume publication about July 1st. It is to be published as a four-page morning dailv with an eight-page Sunday edition. Col. W. W. i lay ward will continue as editor. Near St. Louis, Martin Knsley beat into insensibility ('. D. Collins, of Tennessee and robbed him of 50,000; the men had been acquaintances all their lives and intimate friends for six years. I'nsley lias been captured and T.i..., t.r.A l... ..ii: lUCIlllllCU W, V'01I1U. A Maysville, Ky. , dispatch says: Tollgate raiders, thirty eight in num ber, tore down the gate beyond JJIue Lick. Thev captured the guards. James Dawson, Harrison (ireen and Charles Dawson, the raiders placed a rope around Dawson's neck, hut re leased him on condition that he would collect no more toll. l'ear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, U. S. N., retired, tho last of the com manders of tho great squadron during the civil wav, died at. his home at Silver Springs, near Washington, J). C. , after a short illness, of a stroke of paralysis. He was a Virginian by birth, and "a di rect descendant of Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary fame. Admiral Lee's war record was one of the bright est in American naval annals. All About the North. Maine Populists declare against any more fusion. The allied printing trades of New Yolk State have entered a formal pro test against the .State printing being done by convicts. An nnti-Uynch law society has been formed in Columbus, Ohio. It will establish branches all over the coun try. A northbound suburban train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Panl road ran into the Chicago river nt Kinzie btreet; six men being hurt. Georgetown, a miuing town in Cali fornia, has been visited by a tierce lire, w hich resulted in tho burning of fifteen business houses, and the loss entailed will amount to ?!7."i,00!. One person was killed and several others seriously injured. The United Slates government immi gration station on Fllis Island in New York, has been burned. No loss of lives. The 200 immigrants w ere safely transferred from the island to the barge office at the battery. Governor Tanner, of Illinois, signed the bill preventing the coloring of but terine or imitations of butter. The Ohio Republicans will hold their State election in Toledo the hist of this month. Albert Renson and Thomas Olsen got into a friendly wrestling match in Rrooklyn, N. Y Oh en got an ad vantageous hold on his opponent, 1 fted him off his feet and threw liini backward breaking his neck, which resulted in his death. The President has appointed John G. Brady to be governor of Alaska. ..... . -9 Miscellaneous. The annual session of the World's Lodge of Knights Templar, has select ed Toronto, for the meetT'ng'of lsyst. On the ltith severe earthquakes were felt in Mexico. At Alguiza, a Cuban town of 3,n00 in habitants, 1 78 died of hunger and des titution last month. The degree of LL. D. has been con ferred upon ex-President Cleveland by the Princeton iN. J.) University. Several towns in India have been en tirely destroyed by earthquakes. An attempt was made at Paris, France, to assassinate Felix Faure, president of the French Repub lic, while he was en route to Long Champs to w itness the grand prix. Washington Kchoes. The President has appointed Stewart L. Woodford, of New York minister to Spain, aud he has accepted. President McKinley will be unable to attend the International Gold Mining convention at Denver. Col. The Univer1 al Postal Congress, the fifth convention of the kind in the world, closed at Washington on the loth after a closed session lasting sev eral hours. The next of the coucresses, the sixth sexteunia! one. will be hel 1 at Pome. Italv, in February, liui:' A Fine of So.OOO. At a meeting of the Georgia Banker's Association at Warm Springs on the rth, the Legislative committee sug gested a resolution that a rineof 5,000, or not less than one year in the peni tentiary, be the penalty for receiving deposits in an insolvent bank. It pro poses to improve on the present order of the bank examiner, giving the State officers more authority. The resolution has been tabled until the next meeting, which will beat Tybge Island. IL HHPS WEEKLY LETTER BARTOW'S PHILOSOPHER STATES BETTER TIMES ARE COMING. PATIENCE IS A GOOD MEDICINE. Tlm IlUrounts Doctors or Politicians In Iirlnging All Thins Around Right Side t'p. "Watchman tell us of the night." It has been often faid that ''old father t ime is a good doctor." I be lieve that he is about o cure the coun try of hard times. Certain it is that neither politicians nor legislation has done any good. The disease was not 4 even diagnosed, but the patient is get ting well. Neither Cleveland nor anti Cleveland nor McKinley nor the tariff nor Populism has had anything to do with it. Time is the medicine, aud when time cures a patient he stays cured a good, long period. I had rheu matism several years, and the doctors worked on mo until they got tired and quit, but old Doctor Time came Rlong, and after a while the rheuma tism just quit me and went away of its ow n accord. For six years v. e have all been cussin' and fnssin' and discuss in' about the disease that afllicted the country. Every politician had a rem emy, but somehow the people have lost confidence in our so-called states men and their medicine won't stay on the stomach. A lirst-class politician can argue the leg oil" an iron pot or the spots i.!l'.-. leopard. I heard Aleck Stephens make a great speech away buck in the 4U's and he proved that the Democratic party was responsible for all th calamities that had befallen the country for twenty years, even to tkj high price of collee and the low price of cotton and the yellow fever in Savannah. t was ruminating about, this because I have been traveling around a good deal of late, and if the times are not better then ail signs deceive me. Farm ing is claimed to be the foundation of fill prosperity the mudsills of the building and if so, then I know the times are improving, for the diligent farmer is prospering everywhere in the sunny south outside of floods and cyclones. The crops in South Caroli na are well advanced and promising. Harvest i.s at hand in north Georgia and Tennessee, and was never better. Everything the farmer grows com mands a fair price, and everything he has to buy is cheap. The pi ice of wheat and corn and hay is better than it was from 1.HS0 to lK-lO wheat at $1 per bushel, hay at $1 a hundred, corn at 50 cents, sweet potatoes at 75 cents, Irish potatoes at (!(), chickens from 15 to HO cents, aud wood at $1.50 a cord. What is tho matter with tho farmer? Suppose his cotton is down to 7 cents, he can make money on it at that. A man at Union, S. C, told me he made last year 800 hales on 800 acres, and 'cleared $S,ti00. How is that? When I was a young merchant cotton aver aged about H cents a pound ; corn 40 cents si bushel; wheat 75 cents, pota toes 25, wood SI. a cord. Shirtingand calico were 12 cents a yard, sugar and coffee 121- cents a pound. Iron was 5 cents, and steel 75 cents and nails 8 cents. Now all these things except coffee are half price, and all that the fanner grows for sale is 25 per cent higher, except cotton. But still ho is not happy. Up north, of course, it is different, for it takes all they make in six months' summer to support them the six winter months. I am sorry for those people, that is for all the clever ones, and wish they could sell out to the fanatics and fools and come down here to this blessed land. Their laboring class who have no land and work about for wages say they are not coming, for they can get 525 a month up there and wo pay our negroes only .$10. That's so. That's the way it is put down iu the last census. But the census don't tell how the farm laborer up there is only wanted three months and the other nine he jobs it around for little or noth ing, and it takes his last nickel to keep from freezing to death. And the cen sus don't tell how our negro laborers on the farms get their wages all the year round and get a comfortable cabin rent free and have no firewood to buy and every family has a garden and they raise chickens and eggs aud a pig or two and have scraps enough from their table to support two hound dogs and a Gee. Besides all this, they bait holes in the creek and catch suckers by night and hunt rabbits on Sunday. Talk about our cheap labor. There isn't a respectable negro man in Bar tow county who isn't better off and happier than the average farm laborer at the north. That is one good thing the negro has done for the south. He has intimidated the northern scurf and the foreign scurf and kept them away. I saw in the columns of The Constitu tion not long ago a statement iu figures that was taken from a Boston paper showing that since If JO the foreign population, inclusive of their children born since their arrival, has increased 78 per cent in New England, while the natives have increased but 6 per cent in all that time. The exact figures were given. Jsu t ttiat awful.' ew England had just as well give up their time-honored and historic country re ligion and all to these foreigners. When I was in Nashville the other day I looked w ith pride at the exhibits of our southern industry that greeted me everywhere. In a former letter I made special mention of the magnifi cent display of the Nashville aud Chat tanooga railroad; that includes the Western and Atlantic railroal of our state. But our other southern roids are emulating Maicr Thomas's exam ple, especially the Georgia railroad, whose exhibit makes every Georgian feel proud. Besides the beautiful show of grain, fresh from the harvest fields, there are minerals of almost every kind from the granite of Stone Mountain to the gold and precious stones of Hall conuty. Just im agine a solid granite obelisk split out in the rough and unhewn that is forty feet high and five feet square &t the base and that weighs 70,i"ioO pound?. Then there is the Lor.i-vili-j and Nashville, and the Fiat.: syi-: i, and the Seaboard Air Liie tint Tie' wouderinc visitor v. iii not imi to mc Well, no of course, evervlxidr knows that every man and corporation and state will show up the very best they have got, for that is just human. An good old country woman will put the cleanest eggs and the tii.rst apples on top of the basket when she goes to town. But if the average products of our industry and resources are nearly as good as those exhibits there w e have a wonderful country. Let a itranger look from the car windows as he rides along and he will not be surprised when begets to Nashville, for just now it is harvest time and the sceueiy is as pretty as a picture. I remember that I doubted the propriety of tho Atlanta exposition, but it proved itself a w ise educational measure and now the Ten nessee Centennial is already a grand success and will grow into greater im portance as the weeks roll on. Soon the farmers will have more leisure and at the low rates of travel will avail themselves of this great privilege this kindergarten for their wives and children. And my faith is that of all classes, the farmer is the best able to go, and will reap the greatest profit from his visit. Just think what is thrown in free to delight the senses what beautiful grounds and shady walks; what beauty of architecture, what wonderful paintings and wcrks of the sculptor's art, and what grand fireworks by night, and what delicious music by day! Where else can he hear Sousa and Tunes with their or chestras without going a thousand miles aud where that sw eetest of all music, the piano, when it is touched by a master's hand? Away back in the forties I thought my wife could charm even the angels when she touched the chords of her old-fashioned piauo, and subdued men to her will and wish with the power of music. But I was desperately in love w ith her then, and I reckon would have mar ried her anyhow, music or no music that ii if she would have had me, and I reckon she would. Hon ors were easy. But "music hath charms to soothe the savage breast," and she soothed mine. "Oh, music! what is it and where does it dwell'." My wife still plays when feeling sad, and can't tell why. One of our daugh ters has recently bought a baby Grand, and my wife plays on it a good deal, for her fingers, though not as angelic as they used to be, have not lost their magic touch, and she declares that if she had one like that in the house it would renew her youth. v ell, it is comforting to feel assured that after all our troubles aud appre hensions, the sonth is again on top. As my friend Colonel Killebrew says: "She is on top and if there is any higher pinnacle, she will be on top of that." Bill Art in Atlanta Consti tution. NORTH STATE ITEMS. Local option is carried at. Dunn by a majority of 8. The Bank of Lumberton has been opened for business. By the re-classification of postofiiees in this State, Statesville goes from second-class and Salem from third to second-class. At Lumberton lightning struck the house of John Allen and killed two of his sons. There is a remarkable scarcity of cot ton in this Statu. All the mill men are talking about it. The heavy foreign shipments took much away. Of course the home mills have used more than ever before. Wilmington Messen ger. There is much probability of the con duction this year of an electric rail way from Warren ton to Blowing Rock. Morganton and Baltimore people are interested. The grand grove of United Ancient Order of Druids, of North Carolina aud Virginia, met in session at liichmoud, Va., last week. It will meet next jear in Wilmington. A. J. Marshall was elected deputy grand arch. A. F. T. Polk, of Goose Creek town ship, Union county, has sold sixty seveu bushels of onions from one acre this year. Among the counties so far heard from that elected negroes on the educational boards are Craven, RicTi mond, Hertford, Warren and Wake. At the election of the Board of Medi cal Examiners of the State of North Carolina, at Morehead City, out of the eighty-two applicants ttixty-four were licensed te practice medicine. The North Carolina Car Company has resumed tlie manuiaeture oi car wheels at the plant in Raleigh, which is a plant of the Lobdell plant of Wil mington, Delaware. STATiS SHORT STOPS. Crops in Pitt, Greene and Wilson -fine counties -are reported in bad condi tion. The next meetiug of the State Press Association will be held at Wiivnes ville. Hick or v has increased the value ol its taxable property .100,0-m) within i year. The Sunday school of the Baptist Taberruacle in Raleigh is said to be the largest in the State. Five new cotton mills are being built in Gaston ann Mecklenburg, the Stat j Labor Commissioner Jiuds. A storm at Southern Pines is said to have damaged buildings, virevards and orchards to the amount of .S",0 X. The Governor appoints JuliauS. C-r a delegate to the international gold mining convention at Denver. Two Bofctouians contemplate the pur chase of (iold View mountain nea Aaheville, and the erection of a hotel cu it. .Sheriff Smith, of Richmond county, ays during his sixteen years as sh.-r:n he has taken 450 convicts to the stV penitentiary. Charles H. Turner, of Statesville, i- rouimissicued seaoud lieutenant of Company A. Fouith Regim?nt. Ni-m'h Carolina State Guard. Gov. Russell is itvited t attend the? nnveilius oi a statute of 'eii .u,h-i A. Logan at Chicago. July He i not! tied that the Iresidnt .vid cubing w id be there. The county of .t'tark-y issued $'' 'jrn in bonds in aid of th- ladkin 'uihuv !t now asks the !' rt to d:;!:t bc-ud iHiVi !jd '.oi l, a i l clai .i- l tii- iaiii". hv ha- fai t t'j '''i"i-'V iia contract. A Movement on Foot for a State Bankers' Association. QUEEN SiTYOF NORTH CAROLINA Shipment of rcaches--Iniprovcments In Jails and County Ilonies--The Insurance Report. The Ck-irlotto Observer says that in lSJ, the population of Charlotte was not quite 10,00.1. It had no street cars, no water works, no newerage, no post office buildiug, no park, no electric lights, no p'puts factory. It was a good stout country town, ready to put on city clothes. In ls7, the population of Charlotte is 20,000. It ha3 the best equipped electric railway south of Richmond. It now has 11 cotton mills, 4 pants factories, a postoffice and fed eral court buildiug, two new passenger depots, a new Lutheran college, a new city hall, new county court house, com plete water works and sewerage sys tem, two parks, a Y. M. C. A. building, every old church remodeled or built anew ami ifiauy new ones erected, five four national banks, two cotton com presses, four building and loan associa tions, two big iron works, several sim ply and machine companies, a settle ment of wood working and machine shops, a roller Houring mill, a leather belting factory, sash cord factory, two steam laundries, steam cotton gins, corn mills, and manv other things ex pected to be found in a healty and row ing city. The Grand Lodge. Knights of Pythias, at their sessions in Charlotte. elected the following officers: Supreme representative for four years, L. A. F.bert, Diuston; Supreme Representa tive for two years, V. A. Webb, Ashe ville; Grand'Chaucellor, R. H. Rickert, Statesville. Grand Vice Chancellor, 1. S. Iranklin, Charlotte: Grand Pre late, D. A. McMillan. Fayetteville; Grand Master of Exchequer, John anl, Kaleigh; (trand Keeper of the Records aud Seal, W. T. Hollowell, Goldsboro; (J rand Master-at-Arms, R. L. Cooper, Murphj'; Grand Inner (Suard, J. L. Scott, Graham. The grand lodge rank was conferred on a number of representatives and pnst chancellors. The report of the grand keeper of records and seal showed that there are now seventy-one active lodges in tho State, eight having been institu ted and tw o forfeiting their charters the past yeur. i here is an active member ship of y,o:)J 4'2H having been initiated the past year. The Knights were tend ered a reception at the park, many of the young ladies and matrons of Char lotte soeiet3- serving refreashmeuts. - The insurance report for the State was issued on the 17th by the Secretary ot State. It appears much earlier than heretofore. He says the last Legisla ture largely increased the number of companies exempt from the payment of insurance taxes and fees and operating without State supervision. These com panies were given this exemption in consideration of their "benevolent" features. He adds: Without onquirv ing w hether they are bused upon be nevolence or cold-blooded business, I desire to call attention to the fact, as a result of this legislative action, that a number of insurance companies iu fact, though claiming to be only 'benevo lent orders," have seemed to think that all such organizations can operate in North Carolina without special legisla tive exemption. Already three such insurance companies have been re ported to me as entering and operating in this State In each instance I have called this violation of the law to the attention of the solicitor and requested the prosecution of the offenders." Raleigh correspondence Charlotte Ob server. The Governor appoints as delegates tothe "Homeseekers" Convention at Chicago, John T. Patrick, of Southern Pines; E. P. McKissick, of Asheville; M. V. Richards, of Washington, D. O. ; Joseph Brown, of Chadbourn; George Z. French, of Wilmington: N. H. Smith, of Favetteville;.!. G. Dukes, of Long Creek; "Jl. M. Butters, of Hub; H. S. Chadwiek. of Charlotte, aud A. M. Clark, of Southern Pines. Judge Mclver has issued an order to the board of commissioners of Cumber land county, the sheriff ami dispensary board, to appear before him an el show cause w hy they should not be enjoined from establishing a dispensary in Fay etteville. Fraud and unconstitution ality are alleged by the pat ties applying for an injunction. . . . - .- Secretary C. B. Benson says that re ports coming in tothe State Board of Public Charities show a marked im provement in the condition of jails and county homes. On the county board good men of much influence are serv ing. Tho increase of public interest is is gratifying to the State board. A movement has been started for the formation of a State Ranker's Associ ation to include all the bank officers in the State. . '1 he meeting for organiza tion has just been called for July 24th, at Morehead t lty. The shipment of peaches from Southern Fines to New York is in pro gress. For the Alexander variety, Van Liudley gets from ?2.50 to 4.00 per crate in New- Yolk. The Prohibitionist have carried the towns of Beaufort aud Southport. Alfred M. Waddell, master commis sioner appointed by Judge Simonton in the foreclosure proceedings ugainst the Wilmington. New hern, and Nor folk railway, announces that he will sell it, together with franchises and equipments, at Wilmington. July U.th. 1 The State Funeral Directors'Associa tion met in annual sers;ou at Morehead Citv and elected T. H. Vogler, of Salem, J pre'sident, and W. L. Bell, of Concord. secretary. The association meets next year at 'Wilmington, July 1Mb. i - - i State Geologist Holmes left last w eek for Druver, Col., to represent the State i at the International Gold Mining Cou ' veutiou. He will visit several West ; crn States during the next thirty I days. The fellow who was lyn' hed theother ' day In Mississippi is supposed to have j been the ageDt for an artesian well i drilling apparatus. Tom Delk was hanged at Zebu Ion, Ga. TKNXKSSKK'S EXPOSITION. Commemorate the Centennial of the Found lug of the Stat. The Hest Koutrs to Nashville-- Grand Scenery nd Famous Krsort F.n Route. The great Exposition, commemora tive of the founding of the State of Ten nessee, was opened May 1, under the most auspicious circumstances, nt Nashville. This Expojitiow marks a great epo not only in the history o Tennessee, bnt of the whole Sonth. It illustrates the wonderful transforma tion o the South, under the iowerful stimulus of manufacturing industries, the consequent improvement of agri cultural resources, aud the develop ment of railways. A striking object lesson in practical economics, this dis play of the garnered fruits of industry shows the effect of the magic touch of capital and energy iu the development and eurk-' inent of tho South. It mill afford a , .fat practical lesson of price less value, and rrove an exoellent stimulus to further effort The Tennessee Exposition is one of the finest ever attempted in the South. The situation is most admirable. Nash ville, situated in the midst of a charvv ing, fertilecompany, is one of the most beautiful and progressive cities of the South. The grounds are beautiful by nature, aud have been improved by art. The large aud hanasome buildings are models of architectural skill, and ex hibit a distinctly classic taste. Group ed within, aud arranged in an artistio maimer, are the richest resources of the earth, in the raw and finished state, costly fabrics, rare works of art, the products of skillful handicraft, wonder ful specimens of nature's cabinet, valu able mineral wealth, and curious relics of bygone ages, all of which will auYrd a delightful and instructive experience to visitors. Greatjsuccess has attended the Exposition from the outset. Nashville is a tine old city exhibiting all the signs of modern improvement, and is rich in historic memories. The grand old State capitol, a classic model, crowns an eminence overlooking the handsome business houses and palatial homes which grace the city. The homes of two great men, Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk, are still extant. It is a most attractive city of cultured and hospitalde people. There are several great educational institutions, of which Vauderbilt University is most promi nent. In order to see the South at its best, when its fertile fields and wonderful forests are resplendent with the beau ties of nature, a visit should be made in the summer. Sweeping swiftly along through a country redolent with the sweet aroma of trees, fruits and flowers, the journey is most delifihtful, ami the best is not at all unpleasant. The Ten nessee Centennial affords a good oppor tunity to see the South in all its glory en route. To the people of the Atlantic or Middle States there are several famous routes, which take in the historic places and noted health resorts. These routes are: From New York or Boston, by rail to Wash ington, or a sea voyage to Old Point Comfort, Va. Old l'oint, at Fortress Monroe overlooking Hampton Roads, scene of the naval battle between the Monitor and Merrimao, is the prince of watering places, has a fine and delicious climate, anu grand hotels like the Cbam berlin or Hygeia. Near by are New port News, Norfolk, seat of the Navy Yard, and the noted Virginia Reach, which has an excellent club hotel, the Princess Anne. From Norfolk, apieas- aut sail may be made up the James River of wonderful memories, to Richmond. I roiu Washington, Richmond and Nor folk, lilies of the Southern Railway sys tem converge at Salisbury, N. I.., and from theuce the route to Nashville is via Asheville and Chattanooga. Asheville, in the "Laud of the Sky," the most fas cinating all-the-year resort of the coun try, is the focal iKiint of the tourists of the wild mountainous regions of North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge system. rovnd Asheville are the clowning .'lories of the creation lofty mountain ranges, grand cathedral-like peakn.rich with pristine forest growth, and ut its feet amid tho yawning canons, 1 he mag nificent French Broad river uniting with the lovely Swunnaiioa wends its way through a veritable Garden of tlie Gods. Asheville, a stately little city, perched like a crow's eyrie high up tlie mountain slopes, i.s the scene of numer ous palatial villas, and a score of high class hotels and good boarding houses. and has all modern improvements and ood spring water. 1 he climate is su perb, being pure, dry and bracing, und is deliciotisly cool in Jul v or A ugut. A great number of clear days, line cli mate aud rare scenery are the princi pal charms of Asheville as a resort. Its greatest hotel is tlie J'.attery Park, one of the best and most sumptuously equipped ie-rt hotels iu Ameiica An other delightful place near Ashetiile is Hot Sprmps, located in a charming gorge in the midst of handsome tree- clad peaks. At this place i'i a fine hotel, the Mountain Park Hotel, which has excellent facilities for the entertain ment of guests, and the administering of the very eflicacious waters of the famed thermal springs. New Asheville is Biltmore, the s't of the magnificent Biltmore Castle, erect ed by Mr. George W. Vauderbilt at a cost of 000,000, situated on an eminence in the midst of a park of many thousand acres, on which is an extensive experimental farm. Not far from Biltmore Caatle is a tine and famous hotel, the Kenil worth Inn, which is one of the most select and fiueli- kept places in the laud. In the "Land of the Sky," also are places like Cloudlaud Hotel, reach f d fom Johnson Citv, Tenn. ; Es.eola Inn, Linnville, near Cranberry, N. C., and other noted resorts, at very high altitude, where life is rendered delight ful by the pure and salubrious ino-iu- taiu air. At Chattanooga the tourist w ill ob serve the battlefields of Chattanooga Chickamauga, grand Lookout Moun tain, scene of the "Rattle Above the C'.'.-vW tho National Military I ark and Cemetery. Returning from Nsh- ville a good route is via Birmingham, the "City of Iron," the centre ol mighty blast furnaces; Atlanta or Au gustathe latter the most typical South ern city, where there is a great battery of cotton mills. ojerated by r:i ex tensive system of water works by wh-.h the waters of the Savannah liver uie harnessed. The Southern Railway is a mighty trunk system ramifying the South, arel reaches with its own rails all the reut industrial and commercial center- and resorts, including the ""Land of the Skv,' through which fast Pullman trains are oj-erated It has a strongly con structed roadway, laid itb bavy steel rails, carefully maintained and fully pro tected by all modern safety applian ei. Its through trains are couioied of ele gant dav coaches, handsome dining car-, palatial Pullman buffet sleepers and ob servation cars; its equipmen' is iuxu ! lions, it service admirable, ami its s-hedules are fast and reliable, 'ibis :s the great through veEtibuled route fiom I New" York, Chicago, aud leading N'orth I em points to ail Southern joint, in cluding the famous neaun re?on oi u, "Land of the iky." It affords the l-e-t inducements, the most liberal rate und generous treatment to patrons. For interesting and instructive literature, finely illustrated and descriptive of the South and its resorts, or the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, application should be made to W. A. Turk. Gener al Passenger Agent, Southern Hallway, Washington, 1 C. COTTON IXMMi Wl'.l.f,. Weather-Crop Bulletin Says Crops Are Grown Nicely. Tho week ending Monday, Juue 14, has been very favorable. Fine rains occurred the first of the week and local showers throughout, followed by fair and much warmer weather, cnrs'f general improvement in crops. rVne local damage by heavy rains and a severe hail storm reported at Southern Pines. Cottou is forming squares in southern iHrtuns. Laying by corn has begun. The wheat harvest is iu fill! t mill eTcellnt viol. I t K4STri! Ill.rnil-T - I 111 luv.ir.l.tu week, with nice showers the first three days and much warmer with abundant sunshine the latter half of the week. Crops aro growing nicly, are clean and have good color: and, if the weather does not remain dry too long, the out look will be encouraging. Cm ton is do- mr well. I- armers are begniuinir to lav by com; cut worms still doing a little lamuge. l.ice is grow ing finely. lo- hacco doing fairly well, but some but toning is lepoi ted. Field nans are le- r planted. Still digging Irish iKta- toes; crop short; shipments from south portion ure nearly over. Ciisrit.M. Dis,TKii-T. Fine rains oc curred he first of the week (heavy and washing land iu a few southern locali ties) and local showers during the latter part, winch was very warm. A severe litiil storm occurred on tlie 12th at Southern Pines, greatly damaging fruit. ( lops are grow ing finely and getting a little grassy. Corn is "improving aud beginniug t be laved bv in southern counties. Cotton growing off and in southern portion taking on squares. Wheat, oats aud rve cood: much wheat cut the last throe days of the week. Sowing peas in stubble begun. Sweet potatoes and tobacco abortt all set out. Tobaco improves some; wire worms doing some damage in a few localities. I'd ink lorries are ripening. Consider able hay was saved Ihis week. Wkhtkkn District. Aa abundance of rain occurred the first of the week, followed by warm, fair weather. Con ditions have been very favorable, except over a few counties, where rain is still needed. Farmers are getting liehind a little in their work. Cotton now doing very wll and corn Jlias improved, though worms are still doing some damage. Wheat harvest is in full blast and crop good; rust and chinch bugs seem not to have accomplished much injury. Planting field peas in stubble 'and has begun. Vegetables and pota toes doing well. Much hay Las been saved. Blackberries are getting ripe. Itird an Shepherds. Ill Venezuela there Is n species of crane, tailed by the natives the ynku mik, which Is easily tamed and trained to look after a Hock of sheep or take care of the Inmates of the poultry yard. When these nre placed in charge of this bird. It may l- Implicitly trusted to take them to their feeding places in the morning and bring them safely home at night, not forgetting to hunt for ami collect any straggler. The yak.'imik displays all the traits of char acter usually associated with the faith ful sheep dog. It can be amusing, too, for, while its usual gait Is slow and se date, it can execute the most fantastic waltzes and strike all sorts of absurd attitudes. A German ngrlcnlturlKf. Ilerr von SeytTert, had one. of these cranes, which tool; charge of a herd of heifers, driving them to and from their pastilles. It also kept order in tlie poultry yard, stopping all fighting and disorder. OHIO RIVR& CHARLES! ON RAIL WAY CO. SUIIKDULE. To tnko HnVct May 5, 18117. 7:30 o'clock, a. m. NOKTIIHiirNK. Jnd. 1st. Class. Class. :!.- :tl Tues. Daily 'I burs. Ex. Sat. Sun. KIHTHIMUT.SII. 1st. 2nd. ( dass.Class. :;l Daily Mon. Ex. Wed Sun. Fri. p. in . a. m 1 (HI It .'HI EASTERN IT ML. Camden DeKalb West v.! In Kershaw Heath Springs Pleasant Hill Lancaster Riverside Springdell 12 :$" 1 2 20 12 Hi ; i:. 5 ito 4 !55 4 25 :i 25 :i 5 2 0V 1 50 1 15 1 1 .10 11 7 1 1 2 Is 1 1 O". 10. VJ 2 no 4 On Catawba Junction l' 4 4 Vt Leslie 10 : 4 ', Rock Hill 10' ) 12 55 4 Pi Newport 4 .V) I irzah 5 ii Yoi kville . 20 Shaion 1 40 Hickory irove 5 -V) Smyrna 20 Blaeksbiirg i '.',' Earls 40 Patterson Springs 5 .10 Shelby p. in. I.iittimore 5 50 Smyrna EASTERN" ! TIME. !( 51 10 55 '.) 47 10 41 : :s5 io 'J j !i 20 ! .'.; . 05 0 21 H .V) ! 0 i h :',i h 4-i 7 4H a m. 7 4-' 7 :$0 a in : .10 '.Mil " 12 2nd. lass Da iv Kx Sun. p m. !) ;' s 11 it h i h io P-'.-e-ksbur-.' v :,0 I arl s l i Patterson Spring !l p Shelby ;i i ) Luttiuioie ;i .lo Moore -boro 0(0 Henrietta O JO Poles City 0 .lo Ruthei fordton 1 1 05 1 1 21 1 1 ',' 12 "O i ; 20 MllUood Golleh Valley Thermal ( ity I ;lenwood .Marion .1 0" 4 4 , p m. I' No. 32 has connection with tlie h. s lei .V Lenoir Rail roa 1 at lorLviile. S. C. with the So.ahe. n 1 adwny at RocC Hi. I. S C. with the Lam a U r At Che-.-ter Kudrea l at Lan- a'-lcr, S. ('., and v ith the Si nth tV.roli.na slid Georgia Railway nt aiiid.-t., S C. No. .li has connection w nil the South Carolina and Georgia Padwuy at Ca:n deu. S. C, with the Laiica-ter A- Ches ter Railroad at Lancaster, S. C, with the Soouthern Railway t Rock Hill. S C, with the Chester .t Letioir Railros i at Yorkville, S. C., and with the Soutn em Railway at Rlacksburg, S. C. Nos :; and :S5 will carry passengers. Nos. 11 and 12 have connection at Marion, N. '., and Rlacksburg, 8. C, with the Southern Railway. Ssmi-rz. Hi st, ii. li. Lcmpkis, President i. I. A