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: Ths Messenger J Prints . the, dews w BXJTD OUXSJ to - JOB PEIKTIHGr nr,.'. 1" f")iit;!:t nftArby the po. j I - of M.-I'11, Yancey, Bun .,.r::tr K ul !iet ford, Burte ni;'l oihf r .v, unties lu Western V-itli t'uruhua, ami la there in re a Good Advertising Madium K furiiish.l on application. 'l'UK MKSSENOEB, TO THE MESSENGER, ; Marion. N. C. J Promptness, Accuracy, Neatnaa nd Good Stock Guaranteed. Letter Beads, Note Heads, Bill Beads, Eavelopea, Circulars, Cards, Poa- J ters, Pamphlets, aod any kind of I Printing. 2 jiarlon, U. O 5 VOL. II, NO. 12 MAKIOXN C, FRIDAY, JULY 0. 18l7. Trice $1 lcr Year, in Advance. lie THE WAYS. 0,, v i trao ! : way 'I ;,! :- ,ik-IV I" !.! At '!:. M ;. tri-u-l ' ( ... y.:: !! -n- j -.!. go a'- p. Hirer I' r..r.( . th- !. way i , I - P. ... u li re -1 .-,! . i. .'ii'- iay, -i 'i t!i -r -. i , : ..:- c .clisg '-'it I r i. : i I. 1- ' -I way - , . ,, ! .: tl : . ; .I'.uf.l. 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I, ut l.iuls aii'l liaii- j 'I I ".. . ini-i," : ai I .rosepli. ! "An I t-,,i l.v t. ...inerv fenre, I .! .-.-I'li a i-l that tl-M l.ro.alYf !!t!- ' ' : i -1 - i :'U rlvM 'lie i-ii'f ha !, t ; it m r..-. r.v. . the wall, nail : I ;-i .i !- .1: . In'-, "iiat (li e Mill star- H,;- :,!. a.'-' -..-'" I . !,". I :-'. a -.vat hviUmu-.I 1 ; .i I... i- i mtv re. I. Ti. " . I - e'i'l In t it." sai l ' !i :'i't J'!. lais--, I'll (r() ,n '; . .- I i- . : a "i if I ean't timl ' ' t.:i-s, I know a bush I ' , li.co-ysueMe ilnwiiliy - .'. .. a I" .!i, su in-inj awk ':! ' : 'o si.Je ill Ilisiait, . : 'ii- Sil. ;i. .. st-iMilin-;' ut her I -al.I.-. r,-!!.-,-,. .!: II . I:, a Itullv a.vUv.ai-.l tli:1! hoy i ' 1 'i i'-1 . t-laMv sil (.'i-e liim I" a 'I ..'-' a . I :..., I .' An.i I ttisll v..- ,-.il-! lii-. ak I t : i Ilia' itret-lfnl ail I' ' ':' iti'T v. i'li those p.M) h; .y ,'! I,!,' la -. Lou a' lie! it-ally .litt'.Teiit w ! lit-- iii.-.iilatioiis ,' Ii.hk-sI Joe! V l i t I'.- hi..- an a'l.-l?" sai.l ,lo-!--'h. to hi, i, .e!', .titt-iMiii'j over (he r..i,,. Imi.v ;, ,.! ilit.'iiintlie i.hleti I . i.'-t. -l litile .!ti.-i.li;i..s hiiher a:il "it. "Alv! how I In' in eyes t if her'll i I'tiKI.- an i the ii litlle white teeth Lin.- every ti'ne sit.- i -iKs! I wish I a i' !', T til. t eiil.taili of a fu. .- t.iaste.l l,;-i att'l then I'd marry j 1 . a :,. u ,-'. v., a 'i I lie,!i a desert iii'l. win-',- iIh-p.- wasn't in, (hi i' I ' '' -i'ui-- a'l.l l.aii-i!i,-r trees!" While .r. liy A'hlte, slieiiie; up the I ''h ii aitolfs for it-.-., was !i"Ianeiii 'i at the --ariv!e of a eeilain rin, - i1'.- f...elMi-vr ,,f her left haml I lain. .'!'! fa-liioiieil l.uli.l of nohl, ''- ' ' ' 1 tour elii.vs rr;ts,iii!.- a small hut ht i'.ta-itly watere I iliu'iioml -!he a i i i i. t i't riii;,' w'liit h Harry l"iellin 1 'i i . ti her t -v ti 1 1 ay s hel'ore. ' - I to think that it wnx Harry's '''''' i ' s i yi.i s au'o!" sai l Athlie ' ii- i eli, titftiin.; the (U'etly, aiile-.:',.- I lin ;er roiin.l an roiunl, to see ' i i'.ea tis sp'inter into eoloretl ' ''''" a -aii. t the ervstal fa-els. ' ' . .i-ar: 1 w.-n.ler hou I shall I .ok ' m -,, . : i out '.m V I hit inainnia is ' i i iit I oughtn't to wear it a i t'i hotisew ofk. " x i !i'.ite; it olV. she Iji i.l the yel I if, -let on the table a'ul proeee'le.l ' ' O ' er a dust of sw et -seenti-.l ein : a o.-rih,. ii)i'!e sliees as they ' tv ::i tit. ir lie-t of erilst. i retiiriied, with a pail of v 1 . an ariiifitl of wood, a favorable ! ; ii'-erniii'.; the lueklilts nth! " 1 i ' a't. and a Lunch of ilelieioiis ' i --. -. th.tr sceiited nil the air. ..v. .1,.,-," said Miss Sil(ster, . "on ma v earry t hest apple ! i I'.ob. the (to'iy, and then :" a:nl pick some peas for 1 . i-n." said .!,.. ' ' mI he fell i'lto a ill-en reverie, " i e.i i ii her pies w it h a l lan ' -:-w p.-. - !e a id de;-oia'.ed the 1 i ii.- tanta-itie nioti-ms of the x ' - lii ! le insi rnmet't w hieh 1 ea'l a " i";;ei i njr iron'"- '-low hetlier she should be ' ' a v. hiie sw isS muslin, with ' 1 ' '.ell. or in a I. vow n ea !i- ' ii ' dress and a brown hat. a . ' i .-"ii eii' iial ion in the side. ' " the eashniere would ' ' : mo t se-.-il.!e and Useful," i lie. n silt" put tee nies into a i l idan.-ed no ., the eloek. ' '!-. 'i. ar! the white swiss and ' . w.-uld be so h.M-ly! And a . an epect to l e a bride but '' ' '"' i an out to eat her -.owe red '' ' ft.-s f. .r ti rand father Silvester's : i'- 'fowl of b.eal and milk. xV -he eamo Kvk .lo was shell ; ' i -at the IvltehcU tsbl... ' ' , iis s. t'-v t- iv;wi' iuthiir ' ' L.'i-n iut now," saal Joe, ' ' ' I'd helo vou a speli." i ' - i mht. .I,.s,-i'h!" said Miss ' ' '. " i'.Ii the jjraeii'iis i.nnu of a .-a.jiitV.I M it . nda disdained "' "i ip of a ('a!l ;iii. an 1 to e'liitiT there wa-' sonie- r aimts.nu than otherwise . i.-a that Joseph, the jjobbU -' ,!"a la-l. was her humble slave ' ai.-i't: for a woman iiatnra'dy 'iieeii it, oM-r the lowliest ' ' ' ' e .. i e. T ' ' ene, r. Harry l'ieldini;, 1 " ' ' ins h-i'.d-ouie hea l into the "ia.u .1, Helens vnur pies :. .: ,!.; I n:a le thei.i myself," said Miss S ' w i'li I'aidonai'le pride, as "' "i-'d .1o-aii at the round, siui- ; ' ' " hies of 1;, i- eiilinaty skill ' it so liit.eh as a i tripe book to r - ' And - i! ;i t at that nioineut she ehanre l (o planee at tbe forefinger of her left hand, her mind attraeted thither by an odd train of associations with the apple-pie Making. The diamond. She looked eagerly down at the table where she had laid it. There was no ring there. "Oh, Harry, it's gone!" she c-ried, nervously elasping her hands. "What has gone?" said Harry Field ing, "What are you talking about, Addie?" "My diamond ring," said poor Ad die. And then she sat down in one of the rash bottomed kitchen chairs and began to cry. "Not gone!" sail Harry, cheerfully. ".My dul ling, how should it be gone? It had neither wings to Hy withal, nor legs to run. It's here somewhere, I don't doubt; it must be here." I'.ut it was not. They searched high and low ; they sw pt the kitchen, like the woman in Scripture, and still no sparkling stone rewarded their anx ious scrutiny. "f have it!" cried Harry, slapping his knees and bursting into a laugh. "Vou've baked it in one of the apple pies. It's tin- old story of 'The Maid and the Magpie' over again." A ml, then and there, the covers were taken oil' the apple pies, and their fra grant contents prodded with a silver fork; and still no diamond appeared. Mrs. Silvester looked hesitatingly at her daughter just then. "What is it, mamma?" cried Addie. "My dear," said the old lady, "I would be one of the last to believe evil of u fellow-creature, but " "Hut what, mamma?" urged Addie. "According to your own statement," said Mrs. Silvester, reluctantly, "thero wat only one person in the kitchen all the time you wore making those apple pics, ami that person was " "Joseph!" cried out Addie, a Hush of deep rose-red rising to her fore head. "Joseph?" echoed Harry Fielding, ?pi iitging to his feet. "Vour father took him from the workhouse," said Mrs. Silvester, "against my nil vice ami consent. His uncle was transported for burglary to lhigland; his father died here in a gypsy encampment." "I!ut, mamma." pleaded Addie,who had a sort of tacit liking for the un couth creature, "we've always found him honest and truthful in every re spect." "Up to Ihe present moment yes," said Mrs. Sil vester.cautiously. "Hut there must always be a first offence. And if it was not Joseph who took the ring, v. ho v as it ?" There was a moment's silence in the room, and then Athlie said, in a low tone: "1 don't want to believe it, but I'm afraid it must have been Joseph." Of course Joseph denied it; but Jo seph was not one of those fortunate in dividuals whom nature has blessed with a prepossessing appearance or ready utterance, and his hlusing.staiu mci ing denial w as nowise in his favor. Ami Joseph was ignominiously searched, ami the poor little gunvt rooiu was turned inside out, and Jo seph himself was taken to the village station house, (here to await the de cree of Squire Sam ISirdsall, who dealt out the law and order of (he neighborhood. And, of nil tin shame and degradation of the whole busi ness, one envenomed arrow stung poor Joseph sharpest. "She believes me guilty!" said Jo seph to himself, over and over again; "she thinks that I am the thief!" "Has anyone remembered to feed Jtob?" said ( iriintlfat her Silvester, the cheeriiu, ciiair-riii'ien ohi man, w no was mint!, ears and memory for the whole family. "Your father is away at market, my dear, and it used to be poor Joseph's business, you know." "I'll run out ami feet I him this min ute," said Addie. For Hob was her erenm-white pony, her own especial pet and darling, as far removed from the drudgery of the farm horses as Jupiter above a glow worm. "Oh, dear! oh, dear! I didn't know w e should miss poor Joseph so!" Hob whinnied pitifully a his mis tress' light footfall sounded on the stable threshold. She went up to him and laid her cheek against his satin neck. "poor fellow!" she said, "are you hungry?" And she looked remorsefully into his empty manger, w here lay two or three apple-parings, discarded, for some ex cellent eijitine reason, by fastidious 1'ob, and -what was it that sparkled like a drop of dew in their midst? Her diamond ring! The ring itself, with its slender hoop of gold slightly marred by the prints of Hob's teeth (no wonder tha the sagacious quadruped regarded it us an indigestible morsel and rejected it from the ju iev morsels which he had ,1,-vte.l to M,'lll.' ) the .tin.... -...I. sparkling s bright as ever. With a low cry she caught it up and tlew back into the house, llushed and breathless with delight. "Mamma! grandfather!" she cried, "it wasn't Joseph after all! Look look! it was thrown into Hob's mun-g:-r with the apple parings. (.'all Harrv, somebody! Tell him to go and bring Joseph back! .1 declare to goodness I could kiss the poor fellow, to think how he has been treated!" Sue ill, In t kiss lam, iiu lier sweet. npologttie words were like dew on the fever of the poor lad's sore heart, when once :i. ore he found himself w ithiu the wh!!s of the Silvester farmhouse. "It wasn't the jail, luiss," stuttered he, "nor it wasn't the hard names, nor it wasn't yet the being suspe, ted bv all the rest of 'em; but I didn't want you to think evil of me. miss!" "And 1 never will again, Joseph!" sail Athlie, fervently. Saturday Night. Mvtinl Worth H Million. Perhaps the most precious sword in existence is that of the Oat-kwar f Farodo. Its hilt and belt are encrust ed with diamonds, rubies and emer alds, and it is valued at Sl.lOO.OitO. The Shah of Persia jnssesses a sword valued at ?f.V0iX. There are some costly swords in India, and both the Czar and the Sultan possess jeweled sabers of great price. The most valu able sword in lhigland is one that was presented to Lord Wobelt-y. The hilt is set with brilliants, and it is valued at $10,0iMl. iNTOM'S LEASE DECISION i To Him Is Referred the Third Issue, ( As to Whether I THERE WAS FRAUD IN THE" i ! 'Hie Kxeeution of the Lease of the X. i '. H. II. to the Southern ll. IC The Uoal Could Lease. J A special from Greensboro, N. C, to the Charlotte Observer, of June 30th, ! says; "The decree in the case of the j Southern Pailway vs. the North Caro- ! liua Haihoad et als. , was handed down ! to'day by Judge Simonton and tiled here by the clerk of the court. The decree goes over the evidence, and is ' contained m eighteen typewritten pages. To the three questions: "1st, as to whether the North Carolina Kailroad could lease; i'nd, was the lease execut ed in conformity with the requirements of the charter? :'rd, was the lease exe cuted bona tide, without fraud and i.;a!,-':ctice?" Judge Simoutou an swers: : o st, the North Carolina Railroad had the ri-jht to lease. Second, the lease was executed in con formity with the requirements of the charter. ilnrd, as to whether there was fraud, the question is referred to Hon. Kerr ( raige, as special master, to take testi mony and report. Statu Attorney General Z. V. "Walser, Governor 1). L. Russell and the new board of directors are given 00 days to file testimony. The complainant and the old board of directors are given an additional (iO days to file testimony, af ter w hich Attorney General Walser and Governor liussell arc given twenty days to I '-p'y. The special master shall then report to the court as soon as possible. I n tin meantime the restraining order remains in force. TWO li.! COLLISIONS. Three Killed and Twenty or Thirty Injured. Three persons were killed outright and twenty or thirty injured in a rear end collision on the Chicago fc North western early on the morning of June iif.th, at West Chicago, thirty miles out from Chicago, on the Galena division. 'i he killed are: Mrs. John Godding, of Appieioii, Wis. ;. Miss 1J. Shitlmau, of Appieioii, Wis. ; an unidentified man, supposed to be a tramp. The injured passengers number twenty or thirty. All weie Christian Fudeavor dele gates v. ho left I 'hicago en route for Sau Francisco. The tra'ns were section:! four and live, of the Christian Fudeavor spivis.! ye.it out in nine sections. Sec tion five raa into ruction lour, which left Chicago fifteen minutes ahead. No. 1 carried the VVisconsiu delegates twenty-lit. e hundred strong. 'o. -I had t' stop where the Freepoi t line diverges from the main Hue. .No. o came up be lli id at n great speed ami tha shock of the collision was terrific. TIIK AN OA 1.1 A WKKCK. A dispatch from J. J. Turner, gen eral manager of the Vandal ia Railroad line, dated Ten .i i-ii'it.-. I nd., says one of th' Christian . ;. .c.-.;-r exclusion 1 rains was wrecked at West Terro "asiio. The ili-patch i-.ays nobody was injured except three postal clerks, and their injuries are not serious, ll is learned tti.it R. T. Sherman, of In dianapolis, a mail clerk on the St. J.ouis train, was killed ami that W. P. Conn, of 1 ii-d aii-ipolis, baggage-master ou the we:-t hound train, was fatally injured. Sam I 'i'lkinson, mail clerk, and Frank Owens, fireman, were fatally injured. OHIO DKMOCU VPS NOM1NATK. Silvt r Kcpnl Ccans, Populists and Frohioii ionb'.s Will Also lnt Out a I ieli.-t. At Columbus, )., on Juno i'.Oth, the following I Ifinoi-ntt "e State ticket was nominated: For Governor - Horace L. Chapmau; Lieutenant Governor-Melville !. Shaw; Supreme Court Judge J. P. Spviggs; Attorney General V. II. Fore; .State i i -usurer James A. Wilson: Hoard of I uh'ie Works Peter II. jVgan: School ' ai'iiis -ioaer Ry ron I!. Hurl. 1 he convention was ono of the most memorable political associations in the h'story of kio. I', erytlsi.ig was for ; i ( siiver, aiitl every speaker drew cir-cis by some mention of l.ryan. V motion was r-.itle lo endorse V. J. Hi vio: for the presidential nomination i:i I "Ut I. Three cheers for Rryati were then given. The silver Republicans held a con ference : id expressed great indigna tion i'l'.ev said it w a true that they h 't, announced that they did not want a pia-e on the State ticket, but the an nouncement wa; not made until they were told that thev could not have it. Th y appointed a State committee to ca'.I a state convention to nominate a sepi.riite ticket. J'he Populists also ugieed that they would hold a State convention, ami have a separate ticket. 'Ihe Prohibitionists will have nt least Ivvvi .-vni'ttialr I i, Kvl -., .'vl If.cio ill bv. six State tickets ia the field. Ilicycles l'oiie Down. The Pope ?.ianufacturiiig Company, the oldest bicycle builders in this country, and who make high grade wheels, of which the price has been heretofore held at $hi. announce that r.lterJulv 1st their li.'7 standard will be sold at .?7.i. TIIK STK IKK IN TKNNKSSKK. rwo Hundred Thousand 3Ien Idle in the .Itllieo District. The situation in the Fast Tennessee iiul Southern Kentucky coal mining fields is rapidly becoming very serious. There are vJOO.tHMi idle men in the Jel lieo district and nearly the same num ber along the line of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. These men struck ou May 1. nu,i have done no work since. Few of them had any money saved up and the majority are now- suf fering for the necessities of life. All I efforts to settle the strike have proved unavailing and it is now admitted that , noue of the mines can be operated for ! several months The strikers have so j far made no attempts at violence, but i as the suffering among them increases. it is feared that some trouble will j come. i A OKXEUAL STRIKE ORPEREP. ! A general strike of miners of the ; Fnited Mine Workers of America has I been ordered for July 4th by the na tional executive board, whose head- piarters are in Columbus. O. , and also by the district officials at a meeting held receutli". NEWS ITEMS. Southern I'enril I'ointer. A tramp census is being taken by the authorities throughout Indiana. Mormon missionaries have been ex pelled from Meridian, Miss. There is talk of the Virginia Prohibi tionists holding a State convention at Lynchburg August ioth. 'J'he total paid attendance at the Nashville Exposition for the first two months ij very near 5oo,OW. More than Kto.uoO people passed through the ;rates of the Tennessee Ex position last week. Government engineers say an imme diate appropriation of S '00,000 is need ed for Cumberland Sound, Fla. A cloudburst in the vicinity of Hen derson. Ky. , washed away about a mile and a half of railroad track. The Federal ami Stute officials will unite to protect the Florida coast from iuqiortation of infectious diseases. Slight earthquake thocks were felt in Chariotte, N. ('., and neighboring towns on the night of the '-2th of June. Several people were awakened from thtir sleep 13- the disturbance. The Grand View, one of tho leading hotels at Tallulah Falls, Ga. , has been burned. Miss Hattie Higgins and her mother, of Atlanta, bearly escaped with their lives from the burning structure. Loss, ., (XX . Much damage was done hy a wind and rain storm throughout Central Georgia. A great deal of timber was blow n down, ami the telephone wires are all down. There was some hail, but it did very little damage. At Tampa, Fla., James Davis, col ored, entered the house of Mrs. Ripard Knowles, white, and assaulted her. He was frightened away by her screams and lied without hat, coat or shoes. He war. raptured and jailed without any de monstration of violence. Governor I'llerbe, of South Carolina, has issued an order on the basis of the finding of the Court of Inquiry upon the recent riot among students and po lice and militia on South Carolina cam pus. He did not have anv'thing to say as to Watts, as he will reiort his case to the General Assembly. The Tennessee Exposition which is attracting so much attention through out tho country, and which is being at tended by thousands from both the Northern and Southern States, is beautifully illustrated in the July number of the Oriole, which is pub lished monthly by the Haltimore Steam Packet Company. The illustrations were sent the Oriole specially by the hoard of managers of the exposition. Tho same number also contains maps of the famous James river route of the Paltimore Steam Packet Company be tween Haltimore ami Richmond, ami a large amount of other information of value to the general public as well as travelers. SM All About the N'orlh. Arthur Gai diner, of Chicago, broke the world's one mile bicycle handicap record, his time being ',,:0."',. Wm. F. Hoey, knowu to the genera tion of play-"oers as "Old Hoss." died at his home in New York with acute paralysis. Four armed robbers looted an Oma ha, (Neb. ) bank, and were pursued and captured. J he cashier and one of the robbers were shot. The Pan-American F!xpositiou Com pany, just incorporated at Albany, has arranged for a six months' exhibit on Cayuga Island, N. Y., in isic.i. Congressman Edward Dean Coke, of Chicago, was found dead in his room ut the Cochran Hotel, Washington, from a clot on the heart. Th.e jury in the conspiracy rase of the American Tobacco Company, on trial in New York, has fai ed to agree. 'Ten were for conviction and tw o for ac quittal. The publishers of the city direetorv of Chicago, now in press ami to be is sued soon, have made what the3' claim is a conservative estimate of tho popu lation of the city. They put the fig ures at one million, eight hundred ami twenty-eight thousand. 3Iiscellaiieous. Nine children killed and many others injured by the collapse of a church in the province of Clndad Real, Spain. The degree of LL. I. has been con ferred on President McKiuley by the Western Reserve University. Seven hundred and sixty soldiers were returned from Havana, Cuba, to Spain June oOth, wht were on the in valid list. Many of the passengers and crew of the steamer City of Paris, Panama for Sail Francisco, died of yellow fever on the voyage. Yellow fever is reported bv the Ma" rine Hossital at Washington to be at Vera Cruiz. Mexico, and to be epidemic at J auama, t oiumiu.i. A severance of fraternal relations among Poyal Arch Masons of Virginia and Peiinsy 1 nan ia has been ordered by the authoritiesof the former. A cEblegram from London says the fate of the Pacific steamer "Aden," which left Yokohoma June 1st for Lon- .1. , iot i it ie thought that 100 have been drowned. Short Stop Jennings of Raltimore. who was hit on the head by a ball throw n by Pit, -her Ritsio in a baseball game, is saitl to be su fit-ring from con cussion of the I l ain. The suspension of work in the steel mills, with the addition of the comiug big coal strike, will be the biggest sus pension of business atonetimeforyears past. Washington Kchoes. Col. W. J. Calhoun has decided to decline the position of comj troller of the treasury. The Secretary of the Interior w ill dis tribute Sl.1n4.o-.io among the State agri cultural colleges. The Senate committee on finance has fixed the duty on coal at .T cents per ton. The rate applies only to coal shipped from countries which do not impose a higher rate on American coal. It therefore atiWcts only Canada. A bill has been introduced in Con gress to give the Fish Commission pro tection over game birds. The Postmaster General says he will not appoint negroes as postmasters at i large Southern cities where they havt ! not had such before. I 'Ihe Senate has confirmed the noni- ; ination of H. S. Harkins, to be collec- tor of internal revenue for the Fifth . district of North Carolina. The rector of the Roman Catholic University at Washington, l'r. Thomas A. t onaty, has been elevated by Popt Leo Ili to be a domestic pteiate to tht Holy S.,?, w ith the title of Right Rev rtend. UK SI. Hot Winds and Drought Has Given Crops a Set Back. FURTHER IMPROVIDENT IN CORN Local Storms Have Caused Injury to Crops in Kentucky and Mlsssuri, Hut Damage Comparatively Light. The Department of Agriculture, in it3 weekly crop bulletin issued last Tuesday, says in part: While some what too cool for the best results over the more northerly districts, with excessive heat in the Southern States, the week has, upon the whole, been favorable for the growth and cultiva tion of crops in harvesting of grain. Local storms have causod injury to crops in portions of New Jersey, Ala bama, Kentucky and Missouri, but the namage has been comparatively light. Portions of the Ohio valley, Galf States, Western Kansas and Colorado are need ing rain. Cotton has made rapid growth in Ol -lahoma and Texas and a gcuerel im provement is reported elsewhere. In the central and eastern portions of the cottoa belt, however, the reports gen erally indicate that the plant is small and l ackward. A general rain is much needed over the central and western portions of tho cotton belt. Corn has made further improvement during the week in the principal corn States, having made rapid growth in Illinois, Missouii, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. In the more northerly sections the crop has generally im proved, but continues backward. In the Southern States the general outlook is less favorable than previous ly reported, having been damaged by hot winds in Texas, and by drought in Arkansas, aud in the East Gulf States. Rains have retarded cultivation in por tions of Iowa, w here the crop has made fair grow th, but it3 condition and tho stand are vaiiable. The winter wheat harvest has con tinued nnder generally favorable condi tions. East of the Mississippi harvest ing is now in progress as far north as the southern portions of Illinois, Indi ana and Ohio, and the crop is matur ing rapidly in tho more northerly sec tions. Some damage has been done by excessive rains to wheat in shock in Missouri. Harvesting in California has been somewhat retarded by cool weath er and showers over the northern part of the State. Rains in Oregon and Washington have been beneficial. Spring w heat has generally made favor able progress. The early sown is head ing and the reports generally indicate that the straw is short. Tobacco is more promising than pre viously reportod in Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky, anil the crop is growing nicely in Indiana, ami Maryland. Some has been cut in Florida and it is ripening iu South Carolina. In Georgia and New York it is suffering from drought. HLSINKSS BLOCK BLOWN UP. Terrific Explosion of Dynamite at South Scranton, Pa. An explosion of dyuamito Tuesday iu South Scranton, Pa. . seriously damaged the business block of Leon Olchefeski, a double dwelling block and single houses. The bussiness block, was blow n to pieces. In twenty-one house:-, ail the windows were blown out and the planter shaken from the walls. The shock w as felt all over the city. Otilut's Yellow Ki-ver Scourss. Tho reports received from Cuba by Surgeon General Wyman, of tho Ma rino Hospital Service at Washington show that yellow fever is spreading. Tho United States sanitary inspector at Havaua reports that during the week thero were in that city 40 deaths from yellow fever with approximately "1 new cases, and ;!() new cases of small pox, with three deaths. 'J'he United States Consul it Sagua La Grande re ports that during the week there were in that city 'Jl new cases reported from ye'. low fever aud HO cases from small pox. A Munificent Contribution. James C. Carter, the Now York law yer, has contributed ?000 to the Ran dolph Tucker Memorial Hall to be erected at Washington and Lec Univer sity, Lexington, "a. , at a cost of Soii,-O-i'i, for the accommodation of the law school. Turning of the Tide. A fter being idle for some weeks, t'le tube department and the sheet mill of the Reading (Pa.) Iron Works has re sumed operation. The former gives employment to over U00 hands, while the latter will give work to 'ioO. Drls Scheme Abandoned. Eugene V. Debs' socialist colony scheme has beeu abandoned and there w ill be a migration of unemployed meii to the State of Washington in its stead The expense of their transportation will l,t i i i - i t i cents a month on members of the So -ciui Democracy, Debs' new party. Two of a Kind. Pepreseutative King, of Utah, has iutioduced iu the House a bill identical with that introduced by Senator Mor gan in the Senate, providing for the an-n-'xation of Hawaii under the condition- of the treaty negotiated by the President. NO Fl'HTHKK LKC. ISLATION. A Cjuorum Cannot be Held in th Senate After the Tarllt IJIll is Out of the Way. The prospects are that there will bi no other legislation of importance at this session of Congress, except th tariff bill. It has been stated before that neither the Hawaiian aunexatioi treaty, nor any currency legislation wil. come up in the Senate. It is also known that a quorum cannot be maintained ic the Senate after the taritf bill is out ol the wav. As soon as the bill is Fent tc the House the Senate will take up tht general deficiency bill, and it is expec ted that considerable time will be occu pied by it. The senate w ill oa-ider number of nominations over which there is some contention. It has been sug gested that the Alaskan boundary treatv may be called up, but as it will provoke considerable discussion it will be al lowe 1 to go over nutii nest : e.s.-iou. Stern father 1 hear you were out gambling last night. Is it true? Gay yotrt-No. sir; I was nheal.-Xewr York Journal. THE WOULD OK lU MNK? Messrs. It. Oun .V Co.'s Weekly Ueport of Tra nsact Ion. Messrs. R. G. Dun .t Co. s Weekly Review of Trade for the w eek ending Saturday, July 3d, says: Midsummer vacations have commenced in many w orks, with a decrease of orders usual at this Beaou. This customary vaca tion is called a striko where agree ments regarding wages for the coming year have not oeen reached, ami the extensive strike of the Amalgamated Iron Workers announced .luly 1 is of this nature, but the strike of coal miners in Illinois and other Central Western States is not, and may prove costly. In some iron and cotton works w ages have been reduced, ow ing to low prices, one cotton mill iu Virginia closing because the reduction was not accepted. With a better demand the employers will seek agreement. The situation is distinctly of a midsummer character. Large hopes a-e built on the prosjiective demand after the tariff bill has passed, but the pressure iuthe mar ket of large importing stocks may defer it. The general belief is that a removal of uncertainty will in any case iip reuse business. Since much of the future depends ou crops the brightening prospects are of the highest imiortanee. Estimates by persons usually most pessimistic now far exceed auy made a month ago. on tho promise of r."!l,! 100,1 kid bushels of w heat, of lower condition, but a largely in creased aereage of corn. Cotton pros pects are brighter as the crop apars to be rather early, rather than later in the regions T.hich were not flooded. The movement of wheat is small. Western receipts for the week being only l,('.:tt),77'J bushels against 2,041,71!! last year, and Atlantic exerts 2,004, 17;t, Hour included, against 1 02, 1T2 last year, but a strong eil'urt to lift prices failed, ami the close is 1 cents lower for the w eek, w ith com half a cent lower. Cotton rose with small sales. The iron and steel industry halts at midsummer, although the de mand for finished products still in creases and disappointment is due onlv to the fact that the increase is not yet enough to keep all mills at work ami thus to bring better prices, which now average slightly lower than ever before, though not 1 per cent, below those of March, 1N)5. The export trade is in creasing, and a large order for .India has just been taken at a price said to be $. below lh itish bids. Coke pro duction is increasing again, as more iron furnaces are going into blast, and an addition of 2.". cents has been order ed in anthracite coal. Tin is higher, w ith larger consumption, and copper at 10 for Lake, w ith heavy exports, while lead has adyanced to :i.i cents. Amer can makers are le'ling tin plate larely at .?:. 20 for full weight against S.,.s.' for foreign. Textile luauufactui ers aie waiting and cotton mills curtailing production, w ith large stocks on hand, and prices scarcely changed, while woolen mills are gradually increasing work with better orders, aud prices incline to ad vance a shade. Enormous buying of wool, 2"(J,0fO,0Od pounds this" year, against 102,000,000 last year, re'tlects speculation mainly, and some larger lots have been sold three to five times since arrival. Prices are somewhat stronger r.t seaboard markets, and so high iii tho interior that dealings in domestics are restricted, amounting for two mouths to less than 21,000,000 pounds, against Vi.h'OO.lioo pounds foreign. Failures for the week have been 211 in the United States, against 2.1 7 last year, aud CO in Canada, against 22 last year. Iiuiikc in Freight Transport it ion. An imiKirtant change in the freight transportation service between New York, Philadelphia aud the South has been made by traffic agreement ar ranged between the Raltimore and Philadelphia Steamboat Company ami the Raltimore Steam J'aeket Company by which a through freight line has been formed for handling goods to all poiuts reached by the Seaboard Air Line and its connections. The Haiti- more & Philadelphia Steamboat Com pany maintains a daily service from New York aud Philadelphia to Haiti more by w ay of the Dclewareand Ches apeake canal and Chesapeuke 1 5a v. The freight will he carried from Ralti uioro to Portsmouth, Va., the title water terminus of the Seaboard Air Line, by the steamers of the Old I ay Line, and thence transferred bv rail to its destination. The new Line will give added facilities to Philadelphia merchants for doing business in tl e South, and it w ill receive a large pat ronage on account of the shortness of of the route, and the quick dispatch of freight which it enables. The Y -cls We Ituilt Last Year. During the fiscal year endd June With, there were built in tho United States and officially numbered 72'.) ves sels, of 1.7,04 gross tons, compared with 7''. vessels of 20:1,077 tons for the previous year. The decrease is almost wholly- in wooden tonnage, w hich f.,r ls:7 amounts to 04, t)4o tons, compared with !I4,7-10 tons for ix'M. )f the total construction 317 vessels of l '3. ;.", tons were steam vessels, compared w ith of 134,017 tons for the previous year Steel steamers built on the great laU s number M, with .Vi,S(i; tons, comparer with 24 of .10,020 tons for the previous year. Bequeathed $7..iO:. It has been found by the board of trustees of the Mary Ihddwin Semi nary, at Staunton, Va., that the will of the late principal, Miss Mary Julia Hahlwin, had endowed the seminary with a bequest of .?7.1.'mm. A Oiunt Sewing .Machine. A giant sewing machine has been fin ished at Leeds, Juiglau.'. 1 he machine, which is to be used for attaching- cotton belting, weighs five and a quarter tons. Indians Dip From Drinking. Five Indians are dead and seveiai others are exacted to die at Malouc's Point, Minn., as the result of excessive drinking of pain-killer, hair oil r-.nd other preparations containing alcohol Bank Wrecker Sentenced. Louis Gallot, the convicted Union Rank wrecker, of New Orleans, hes been sentenced by Judge Parlange to eight vears in the Pemteutiarv at hard j labor. The case w ill be appealed I Wins a I Iiou-aiol-Dotlfr Ka o ! At Philadelphia, Pa, Farl Fiser, f j Dayton, defeated Eddie Raid, of Huf j falo, and Tom Cooper, of Detroit, ia a match race for 4?!,o 0 be.-t two in thu-e U-i&'s at a mile. Only two heat-, were I run, and the Dayton youth won l- 'h j handily. I Found Dead In Ilfd. I J. II. Rible, United States distrioL i attorney for Fast Teunes-ce, a.i l cue 1 . f the most active politician in lh ! tate, was found dead iu l-'U' b;s ' home in Che.ttar.ocira Hi- .--Cu is j ifciibed to appoplexy HR LOCAL 8HQ0L TAXAI10H Items of Interest Throughout'the Old North State. FUNERAL OF COL S. McD. TATE. Agree to Curtail Production I. It. Fortune Appointed Clerk -Hrward of ijUOO Ottered. C. II. Mebane, superi?! indent of public instruction, has mailed to 100 selected men the following letter: "We, the undersigned, wereapinuuted a central executive committee by the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, to conduct the campaign for local taxation for pnblio schools, to be voted noon Aug. 10 in every to rn. hip in North Car olina. Upon this election the educa tional future of North Caroliua de jiends. We must carry it for 'schools. ' Without local taxation no general school system has ever beeu built up This committee has been charged w ith the duty o( selecting a larger commit tee to co-operate with the Teachers' Assembly in this great uioyemeut. You have been chosen a memln-r of this larger committee. We desire and crave your sympathy and influence. If you have not studied the matter, please give it your attention, and see what great things (he election, if favorable, will carry for North Carolina. Sigued C. 11, Mebane, chairman; J. O. Atkin son, secretary; L. L. Ilobbs, II. L. Smith, Josephus Daniel", E. A. Alder man, C. E. Taylor, W. H. Ragsdale, Hugh Morson, "Charles D. Mclver, J. C. Scarborough, J. W. Railey, It. Ii. Flowers, Alexander Graham, lu D. Howell, D. II. Hill." The largest concourse of people that sver assembled at a funeral iu I'.u-ke county was present "Alien the body of Col. S. McD. Tate was laid to rest in forganton cemetery. The services were held in the First Presbyterian church, ami as the body was carried from the church to the cemetery there was a procession nearly a mile in length. The surviving memliers of the Sixth North Carolina Regiment walked ou either side of the hearse, acting as the guard of honor. This was the regi ment Col. Tate commanded when he made the famous and gallant charge at Gettysburg, when he passed through a gap iu the famous stone wall and with his revolver killed six men. He told this himself and his statement was con firmed. He hud llunketl a line of men lying down, and emptied every cham ber of his revolver as quicklv ns the weaion could be fired. The lasons at tended in a laxly. The services were .-onducted by Dr. J. M. Hose, of tho Presbyterian church, assisted bv Dr. W. 11. Leith of the Methodist church. At a meeting held in Grcciihoro of the cotton mill men of Randolph county, all the mills being represented, it was uiiaiiiir.ously agreed to curtail product ion one third lime until tho new cotton crop js on the market. These- mills formed themselves into a permanent or ganization, with Mr. O. P. Cox, of the Cedar Falls Manufacturing company, as president, and Mr. Hal M. Woith, ol the Woith Manufacturing company, a. secretary. 'J hn next meeting of ihe as sociation will be hold subject to tho call of the president. Judgo Purnell has apointcd J. It. Fortune clerk of the Federal Court for the Fa stern district, vice N. J. Riddick, acting clerk, who is removed. The ap pointment dates fromJuly 1st. Riddick was apiioiiited May 21, is;, by Judge Frooks and was later re appointed by .ludge Seymour. Forune is not yet appointed circuit court clerk, but no doubt w ill hold both offices, as Kiddick has done for some years. The pay ol both offices last year was $3,700, For tune is from Shelby. The J'.lack Mountain correspondent of the Asheville Citizen says: J he smouldering fire kindled a yeur age among the partisians of "hog" or "uc hog" has broken out iu a new spot by hanging Mayor A. G. Robinson in ethgy. Soon after daylight one day last week a figure with two placard fastened on it was discovered sus end ed from a tree near the j.ostoflice. The tlumiiiv was removed and is lieing ha!,l as evidence iu legal proceedings which are to follow. At Cannonvillc, in Cabarrus county. a 1 vear old twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Harnhardt was playing with a match and an oil can. The match was struck anil at the amo in stant an explosion occurred, which re suited iu the child's eye being burned out an I its bo Iv roasted, resulting in its tiea'h iu a few minutes. The mother was badly burned in trying to rescue her child. - - -- . The contractor the State w ith Guy X. Fames as public printer, has beeii made. His bond is jJI.O'Mi. He is iriven charge of the State paper and station ery w hich he is to issue to contractors for any special work under direction of tho council of State. He is requited to keep a list of all job work ami file with each bill the cost of composition anil of eely part ot work done. Governor Russell otters a reward ol S"4', which is the limit, for the arr.rsl of the unknown jierson or persons whe o:i lue night of June 23 murdered Mrs A. A. Springs at Lexington. The le ward is payable up an conviction. The I oiler of so large a reward is unusual, but it is recognized that this is an extreme I The Governor has apiointed as dele ! gates from this State to the National I Conference of Charities ami Correc i tious, at St Paul, Charles Dnff'v, It. Ii. Diane, W. F. Reasley, D. W.'C. Ren j bow, P.enjamin P. Grigsby, Thomas i W. t'atton, V. S. Lusk, A. li. Noble, j A. McCuulav and C. Denson. Twenty three persons the faculty of the new coi lege at Charlotte. ill constitute Presbyterian J. F. Souther'and, ot Goldsboro, re- signs as director cf the Eastern l"-i- j tal for the insane. 1 -.- J Stat.3 Treasurer Worth says he has' letters from the various sheriffs whom he has Fe!ected to lead off in the discus sion of subjects at the sheriffs' inst itate, ! saying that they will tackle the subjocte j as-igne l theia. Father Worth feels . sure the convention or institute will be ' a l ig success. ; ! The secretary of State has completed j the count of the Supreme Court reports, : old and new, on hand and finds there ; aie I", 5T1. i Statesvitle is preparing for water works. Prcl. J. L. Lndlow has made a snrvey. NOUTII STATE ITEMS. Bla: Keward Kor the Murderer of Mrs. A. A. Springs at Lexington. There is talk of a new Democratic daily in Raleigh. A charter has been issued to the Sal isbury Hosiery Mills. There is talk of a Missouri man build ing ahaudsome hotel at Carthage. The Wake Forest summer school oiened on Juno 2?th with a good at tendance. The Secretary of State has crauted a charter to the Roanoke Underwear Company. Tho census of Winston, completed June 3oth show there are 2,'.'4; school children in that city, 1,417 whites and l.ry.u blacks. The Attorney General declares Ihe sections of the revenue act providing imprisonment for nou-paoment of taxes to lx constitutional. John C. Scarborough, of Raleigh, m repted the presidency of Chowu R- tist female institute, to hi. u he was elected iu May. Governor Russell has pardoned U. 11. Snow, a citizen of South Carolina, who was serving a five-year seutenco in the ieniteiitiary for stealiug a horse in Guilford county. Ihe State Treasurer brings two suits against Stewart Pros." former State printers, to recover tho overcharge they made against the State during their two years' term, said to amount to over Slo.ooo. The Governor offers a reward of S4iW for the apprehension ami delivery of an unknown ersou or ihtsoiis who ou tho 2.' rd iust. , murdered Mrs. A. A. Springs in bed at Lexington, the re ward to be paid it ix n conviction. The Farmers' Alliance is at a low ebb. It has less than Sio.ooo in its business agency fund, while last August there was $10,000. The most earnest efforts' are being made to revive interest in the alliance and increase its membership. Wilmington Messenger. The penitentiary under its new man agement is in financial straits. Its of ficials say that on the first day of Juno there w as not a cent of money on hand, that it then owed over Jl.s.Oiio and was going in debt at the rate of Sbl.ooo per mouth. Wilmington Messenger. The Governor apioints to represent this State at the national conference of charities and corrections at St. Paul, Minnesota, Charles Duffy, R. R. Drane, W. F. Peasley, D. W.C. Pcnbow, Pcn jamin P. Grigsbee, Thomas W. 1 at ton, Virgil S. Lusk. A.H.Noble, A.McAulay aud C. 15. I leiisou. The Commissioner of Agriculture ac cepts the following list of farmers' insti tutes to be held hy Dr. D. Rcid Parker this month: Guilford College, 7th und 8th; East Salem, nth and loth; J- ust Rend. r.'tl. and 13th; Statesville, Nth and 1.1th; Salisbury, lltth ami 1 ith; on cord, 1Mb and 20th; Charlotte, 21nt ami 22d. Mr. Sol. J. Jones, of Wilmington, has the largest Chinese balsam farm in the world, containing about five acres, from which he ships to the large cities Fast ami West and obtains for this balsam from 10 to 21 cents a Kund. He has a Chinaman with him to cultivate this truck, who is well experienced iu the business. The revenue receipts at the Winston office for the fiscal year ending Juua 30th aggregated jfHsto, it l.::;. During the year Winston has shaped I4,0'ivl7a oiluds of manufactured tobacco. '1 his is the best year's business iu Winston's history. The stamp sales this month were !$.l,r0H. 43, showing (he shipment of manufactured tobacco (o have beeu l.ri2", 140 pounds. With one exception this is the best month of the year. The decision of (he Attorney General that the exeuses of (he August public school election Inust lie lie met out of the general fund ami not out of the school fund is very important. Tho Su IKtrinteudeut of Public Instruction says the election will cost 50,11. Ml. In other words it in likely to cost more than the amount to be voted Yet it must be held ami the ieople of each tow nship ought to see that the extm tux proiositiou is carried. The following is the official figures of the receipts, expenditures and daily at tendance of the Women's Fxi-osition of the Carolina", w hich was held at Char lotte: Rorrowed by managers,?', 350. 00, receipts at door, $4, 172.00 receipts from sales, .1,11. 40; excuses, lalM.nt) 84,500.00; duily attendance, (aver age) 500. Some uncounted items of expenses not yet in. It costs the Exositiou $15 1. ft? iu bring ing the single picture, "Rreuking Homes Ties" to Charlotte, carrying it back to its owner and keeping intoned for $10,000. STRAY SHOTS. The Yance monnment, to be erected in Asheville, will be a simple bhaft ot massive granite. Ralph If. Graves hn beeu elected li brarian of the State University; he is tho fourth generation of that name to serve the university. The last Legislature chartered the "Mountain Petreat Association. " This is under the auspieies of the Interna tioual Christian Workers Association. It will bold its first assembly at Jiia k Mountain July 20th to 24th. Rev. UYs ton It. Oales is one of the prime mov ers. The State hos granted a charter t j the Claude Yernet Nursery and Fruit Company, of I'inehurst, the incoriKjia tors being R. O. S. McNeill, F. F. Partram and George C Lion. It also hem iower to deal in real estate, oprra'e a distillery and preserve, cau or evapo rate fruit. Dr. Marilius M. Orr, one of Ch it -lotte's most venerable and esteemed citizens, died at his home on 1 lut avenue. Dr. Orr had been in failin health for several y ars. He l a : ., slight stroke of paralysis about two years ago, ami after that sun-red with rheumatism, but he had no ! ul malady at the time of his dea'h. AGAINST VANDKIMML I. .1. E. Iluntt, Injtired b;. a Stone I rui n. Uliiivt, Awarded &S,."iM D.iiiiuk--. A special to tho Charlotte f N. O. ( b ferver from Asheville, says tho Uii.te I States Court jury, in the case of J. r ' ward Huutt vs. Chas. McXati.ee l.i. returned a verdict awarding the plaint -l cu(r00 damages. Huott was injured .a 'j5 by a stone from a blast on Market i-treet, as be stood in frout of the Sw u . unnoa Hotel. The stone came from a i excavation and was thrown sev : ai hundred yards, passing overathre.--storv building aud falling on Sou'h Main street, breaking his leg. The ex cavation was for the Young Men'i. in stitute, which George W. Vauderbi:! erected for colored people. The verdict is against Mr. McNamee, Yauderbil1'.-, agent The case will be taken to th Court of Apial.
Marion Messenger (Marion, N.C.)
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